already got 150fps in ut2k4, hoping some other games will benefit 
so whats Theinquierers source?
so whats Theinquierers source?
The onslaught stages in UT2004 tend to be very cpu limited.
Doom 3 is just about as tough on the cpu.
Halflife 2 is less tough on the cpu I believe.
Flight sims are very tough on the cpu.
BTW, didn't Tim Sweeney complain awhile back that DirectX adds a lot of overhead on PCs that hurts performance that you don't have to deal with on the consoles? I guess it'd be cpu performance then that is hurt, which doesn't matter so much as PCs have much faster cpus than consoles anyhow.
Doom 3 is just about as tough on the cpu.
Halflife 2 is less tough on the cpu I believe.
Flight sims are very tough on the cpu.
BTW, didn't Tim Sweeney complain awhile back that DirectX adds a lot of overhead on PCs that hurts performance that you don't have to deal with on the consoles? I guess it'd be cpu performance then that is hurt, which doesn't matter so much as PCs have much faster cpus than consoles anyhow.
Pardon me, I don't understand... if the point of multi-threaded drivers is to be able to utilize two cores, then why run P95 at high priority on one core, essentially limiting yourself to a "single core" system?
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Pardon me, I don't understand... if the point of multi-threaded drivers is to be able to utilize two cores, then why run P95 at high priority on one core, essentially limiting yourself to a "single core" system?
lol yeah...uhh.........that is kind of weird.
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he wanted to see the difference between single and dual core with these drivers. so he ran 1 set with 1 core occupied by prime and then with both cores available for the game.
i think it would be better to just run a set of benches dual core with say 71.89 and 1 set with 80.'s.
i think it would be better to just run a set of benches dual core with say 71.89 and 1 set with 80.'s.
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Most games now due to the fast progression of video cards. Or any game at low detail settings.
BTW, UT2k4 has a software rendering mode that would certainly tax a cpu, however it tests different functions of a cpu.(I believe it's also intel optimized and amd hindered, as I believe even pentium 3s vastly outperform athlon 64s in it, yet back in the days of software rendered halflife the athlon used to crush the p3)
hm, I think the jury is still out on what these drivers do. I'd love to see some performance gains when I drop in my X2
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Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Pardon me, I don't understand... if the point of multi-threaded drivers is to be able to utilize two cores, then why run P95 at high priority on one core, essentially limiting yourself to a "single core" system?
To compare the difference between running the game on one core vs. two cores, to show the advantage if any provided by the second core.
Just comparing benches for the two drivers only proves that the new drivers are faster than the old ones, not that it is utilizing the second core.
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Pardon me, I don't understand... if the point of multi-threaded drivers is to be able to utilize two cores, then why run P95 at high priority on one core, essentially limiting yourself to a "single core" system?
To compare the difference between running the game on one core vs. two cores, to show the advantage if any provided by the second core.
Just comparing benches for the two drivers only proves that the new drivers are faster than the old ones, not that it is utilizing the second core.
I see. Any results?? Anyone??
The second core would be utilized in multithreaded games. But I think this supposed performance boost has nothing to do with whether or not games are multithreaded, it's something different (what exactly, though, I'm not sure.)
Supposendly DirectX has quite a bit of cpu overhead, most likely the nvidia drivers are offloading that to the 2nd cpu. This would help in cpu limited cases.
Or how about another possiblity, they're forcing the 2nd cpu to do some kind of hidden surface removal in all games.....however, that'd only help in games that are limited by having too much geometry, which is like no games right now and probably wouldn't account for a 20%-30% boost.
Has anyone without dual core tried the same drivers. I'll give it a try after lunch. BTW Velk do you have HL2 or Farcry?
This is almost wanting me to put back together my athlonMP rig and see if it gets a performance boost out of these.
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