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Does COH/V use all 4 cores?

Father Xmas

By Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2009-06-07 10:18 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I know it has been discussed before but I can't find a direct answer to the following: Does COH/V benefit from all four cores or is it limited to only 2 cores?

I run calculation intensive items in background and I used to suspend them while playing on a 2-core computer. Now that I have a quad core system, I wonder if I still need to do this or just let my background app run in two cores as long as COH/V only requires 2?

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No there is only two CPU intensive threads in the game. So you should still be able to run your other CPU intensive app in the background.

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CoX will only utilize 2 on it's own, so the operating system and any other background applications will benefit from having the 2 other cores available.

 

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co* is a dual thread program and... oh. Nvm, they answered it.

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