What upcoming games will support Dual Core?

[Muscles]

What upcoming games will support Dual Core? I've read that UT2007 will support it but what others will that you know of thus far? I'm buying a new system between now and september so this info would be good to know.

 

[MobiusPizza]

Well eventually games will support it. You have to decide whether it is fruitful to adopt it early as of now which will obviously cost you more than adopting it later. How long do you plan to stay for your build until your next upgrade?

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Arent most of the upcoming engines going to be somewhat multi-threaded?

 

[MobiusPizza]

Yes but they won't be too taxing on single cores user as it is still the majority market

 

[DaveSimmons]

Also very important is how much will a game benefit from explicitly supporting dual-core.

(positive): some games may benefit just from having other Windows processes using the second core instead of the first, so "Built for Dualie" might not be needed.

(negative) depending on how the support is implemented, it might have little or no real-world impact on performance, or only help in certain applications like solo/LAN play against a horde of bots.

There are many cases (memory bandwidth and RAID0 are two) where a massive jump in benchmark performance has only limited real-world effects.

 

[Muscles]

Good post DaveSimmons. It's going to be a tough decision for me I suppose whether or not to go dual core without seeing any kind of dual core vs single core benchmarks in games that will support it. Although my original question still stands unanswered. Has any announced upcoming games officially stated that they will even support dual core? If it will be a year or more from now until games start being released that support it then I may as well save some cash and stick with single core.

 

[SuperFreaky]

I vote save some cash!!!! If you buy a 3200+ now for $200, the dual cores will have dropped by more than $200 by the time ANY game significantly benefits from them...

 

[SrGuapo]

Originally posted by: SuperFreaky
I vote save some cash!!!! If you buy a 3200+ now for $200, the dual cores will have dropped by more than $200 by the time ANY game significantly benefits from them...

That's what I would recommend. For gaming, I would just wait for some more dualies (maybe even quads) to enter the scene. If Intels yonah is pretty competetive, it may even drive down prices quite a bit. I don't think we will see too many games that will be efficienty multithreaded for at least a year or two. I see no reason to jump in now at a large premium.

If you are actually doing some other apps (video editing, 3D rendering, etc.) that will benefit from dual cores, then it may be beneficial to go for that instead...

 

[rise]

yeah, i got me a 3700+ sandy to tide me over until i see a personal (read gaming) need for the x2. a little oc'ing and i have a fx-57 for $303. (thanks newegg.)

 

[PerfeK]

Gaming isn't the main selling point of the dual core X2 anyway. Yes, UE3 is multithreaded but multithreaded development is tricky and not a lot of devs are good at it compared to devs who can do single threaded applications.

If you buy a DC, don't buy it FOR gaming. It is for CPU-multitasking, not to be confused with user multitasking.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: PerfeK
Gaming isn't the main selling point of the dual core X2 anyway. Yes, UE3 is multithreaded but multithreaded development is tricky and not a lot of devs are good at it compared to devs who can do single threaded applications.

If you buy a DC, don't buy it FOR gaming. It is for CPU-multitasking, not to be confused with user multitasking.

 

[sandorski]

I heard AoE 3, but it wasn't confirmed by anyone official as far as I could tell.

 

[Muscles]

Thanks for the input guys. I guess I'll buy a 4000+ for now and wait it out until I have more concrete evidence it's worth going dual core for gaming.