AbsolutPrep

Just wanna ask you guys anybody running fm on a quad core chip and if so how many leagues you got going and how smooth is it.Thanks alot peeps............Fritz

retired_m_jaguar

yep..CPU Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 Quad-Core 2.93GHz OC @ 3.2GHz

ALL leagues, evrything maxed out...no issues.

retired_maxwell05

what about mine? i have amd athlon 4200+ 2.60 GHZ rated at 6.30GHZ and i have 2GB RAM

retired_svand67

Hoewever, if you check your actual cpu usage, you will find it never uses more than one core.

retired_m_jaguar

Hoewever, if you check your actual cpu usage, you will find it never uses more than one core.

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I see activity on Core2 as well.

retired_marcwalker

If you already have that computer, you are probably the one who should try it and tell the rest of us :thup:

skinny

does FM take the Quad core into account? does it use them all? can anyone from SI tell us this please? thanks

retired_melodylim

I thought FM, like most games only uses two cores.

skinny

thats what i thought but i would upgrade my CPU if they used the 4 cores.

retired_dalcar

We only have one quad core machine in the office, and it plays the game very quickly indeed.

We haven't actually tested "core usage" at all to see how many it's using, and it hasn't been specifically optimised for quad core PC's. Some of the work on the 360 version will use mutliple cores, and that might translate into multi-core use on a PC aswell as some of that code will have been transferred over.

So whilst we've got no specific benchmarks, or specific optimisations done on purpose, multi-core machines do seem to play the game faster. We set up a game with all leagues running very quickly (I won a bet against Kev over the time it would take to set up ).

That said, if you don't notice a difference, don't blame me, as we've done no specific tests - it's just from personal experience.