What current games are SMP?

[MBrown]

I know Oblivion has some smp action in it. What about FEAR etc?

 

[akshayt]

Quake 4 should probably be the most SMP.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: akshayt
Quake 4 should probably be the most SMP.

Indeed, Quake 4 currently shows the largest improvement from multi processors or multi core. Future multi core games include UT2007 and Alan Wake.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Call of Duty 2 also has SMP. How much of an improvement? I don't know. Anything based of the Doom 3 engine has SMP.

GundamEDIT: I looked up Prey and it doesn't have it.

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Call of Duty 2 also has SMP. How much of an improvement? I don't know. Anything based of the Doom 3 engine has SMP.

GundamEDIT: I looked up Prey and it doesn't have it.

Neither does Doom 3. I think Quake 4 is the only Doom 3 based game that has SMP.

 

[n7]

One thus far not mentioned (& also not played much) is Serious Sam 2.

Apparently Valve is adding SMP capabilities to their stuff, but i doubt there'll be a big difference.

Gaming is still far too GPU-limited for SMP to make any difference at real resolutions.

 

[Piuc2020]

Yeah n7 is right, gaming are mostly GPU dependant, the only game where GPUs are the least important thing is The Sims 2 and maybe to some degree on some RTS.

Still after applying the SMP patch for Call of Duty 2, I noticed a tangible performance difference on my Mac Pro (4 cores), things were smoothened out a bit.

 

[MBrown]

Yeah. I just updated my COD2 and I can see a huge difference between my 4400 and my old 3500. I am impressed.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: MBrown

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
Call of Duty 2 also has SMP. How much of an improvement? I don't know. Anything based of the Doom 3 engine has SMP.

GundamEDIT: I looked up Prey and it doesn't have it.

Neither does Doom 3. I think Quake 4 is the only Doom 3 based game that has SMP.

SMP support was removed from the Doom 3 engine sometime during development IIRC.

 

[Griswold]

I think for serious SMP goodness, you'll have to wait for Crysis, Unreal3 and this marketing stunt called Alan Wake. I bet, these will be the spark that ignites this SMP bushfire.

 

[schneiderguy]

the Alan Wake devs claim their game wont even run on a single core processor unless it has hyperthreading.

 

[hemmy]

they wont sell many games if that is true

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: hemmy
they wont sell many games if that is true

That's what I was thinking. Their loss.....