What games are Multi-Threaded or Multi CPU Capable?

[HDTVMan]

Chances are its not in my budget but what games currently are written to take advantage of Dual Core or even Dual CPU?

I remember a long time ago Unreal the first one was supposed to take advantage of multiple CPU's. But I have not heard of any other games.

 

[ryanv12]

The only real games that were written to be multithreaded are already old enough where it means a difference of 700 FPS vs 640 FPS (exaggerated ). At the moment, the only thing that dual core will do for you in games is offload background windows processes or sound processes (if you're running onboard sound) which results in about a 2-6FPS increase from the single core counterpart, according to all the reviews I've looked at.

However, the Unreal 3 engine is supposed to take advantage of dual core (among many other things), and there are claims that games using this engine will be out by the end of the year. Again, I would doubt that these initial multithreaded games will suffer that much from only having a single core, because they still have to make these games playable on the majority of gamers' systems. Hope that answers your question.

 

[HDTVMan]

Yes it does I like your answer. I wonder if this will also be 64bit and/or 32bit?

700FPS would definatly increase my game. Just kidding.

I use a 60-80FPS Pass/Fail at resolution to determine if a video card works in my opinion. To see benchmarks with 33FPS might be playable for some but my thought is at some point in the game it will drop below that and stutter. Therefore anything below 50FPS is a Not Playable.

Do you know if the CPU kernal has to be configured for MultiThreaded before a gaming engine can use the second core? I would think so since applications like SQL do.