Which games are multi-threaded?

[Azndude51]

All I know are Call of Duty 2 and Quake IV, are there any others? which games coming out will have it?

 

[Azndude51]

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[Canai]

I think valve is releasing multithreading support when EP2 comes out, but I'm not sure.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

the quake III engine had multithreading (very buggy) seta r_smp "1" turns it on.

heres a list i found on another site:

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains by NCSoft

F.E.A.R. by Vivendi (allegedly enabled, but real world no real performance increase to FPS, tho it still performs)

Peter Jackson?s King Kong

Quake 4

Quake 5 (promised when released)

Serious Sam 2 by Croteam

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (on pre-order)

The Movies

Tom Clancy?s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six 3

Tony Hawk?s American Wasteland

Vangauard Saga of Heros

World of Warcraft

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/Dual-Core-supported-games-ftopict94969.html

 

[Azndude51]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the quake III engine had multithreading (very buggy) seta r_smp "1" turns it on.

heres a list i found on another site:

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains by NCSoft

F.E.A.R. by Vivendi (allegedly enabled, but real world no real performance increase to FPS, tho it still performs)

Peter Jackson?s King Kong

Quake 4

Quake 5 (promised when released)

Serious Sam 2 by Croteam

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (on pre-order)

The Movies

Tom Clancy?s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six 3

Tony Hawk?s American Wasteland

Vangauard Saga of Heros

World of Warcraft

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/Dual-Core-supported-games-ftopict94969.html

Thanks, but is there anything more reliable or recent? that list was last edited about 8 months ago.

 

[BFG10K]

Almost every commercial game ever made is multi-threaded, the problem is that the threads generally tend to execute in a serial fashion so you don't get any performance gains on SMP systems.

 

[Argo]

Is there really an advantage from multi-threading the games? Most of the cycles are spent rendering the graphics, which has to be done in single threaded fashion.

Now if there were games with super complex AI, I could see how that could benefit from parallelization.

 

[titan7]

Pretty much all games are multithreaded. But which will really take advantage of a 2nd core or more? Not very many at all.

Company of Heroes takes advantage of multiple cores.