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Offline Rob52240

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How many Cores?
« on: September 27, 2014, 01:26:14 PM »
how many cores will the new engine utilize?
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2014, 01:28:27 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on September 27, 2014, 01:26:14 PM
how many cores will the new engine utilize?

That depends on many things. Only the ones who tested the new version can answer that. If even them. It's fairly safe to assume that AH won't be heavily multithreaded though, looking at the target base hardware specs and the age of tech used.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2014, 01:32:39 PM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on September 27, 2014, 01:28:27 PM
That depends on many things. Only the ones who tested the new version can answer that. If even them.
If even them, at this moment the new version is in alpha testing which actually doesn't tell anything about the final release.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2014, 01:57:54 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on September 27, 2014, 01:26:14 PM
how many cores will the new engine utilize?

I believe Skuzzy has said that Windows determines how many cores are used.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2014, 02:58:44 PM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on September 27, 2014, 01:28:27 PM
That depends on many things. Only the ones who tested the new version can answer that. If even them. It's fairly safe to assume that AH won't be heavily multithreaded though, looking at the target base hardware specs and the age of tech used.

You can pretty much ignore this, or any other baseless speculation from anyone right now.

It is premature to discuss anything related to the hardware requirements.  The only thing we have said, so far, is it will require a video card which supports Shader Model 3, or later.

When we have reached a point where the requirements and recommendations are firm, we will let everyone know.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2014, 06:46:31 PM »
Considering how infrequent Aces High revamps are, and the way technology is progressing, it would seem to behoove HTC to make the game as threaded as possible.  If some people still running Core2Duos from 2006 get slightly worse performance because of it, so be it.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2014, 07:00:59 PM »
Quote from: Skuzzy on September 27, 2014, 02:58:44 PM
You can pretty much ignore this, or any other baseless speculation from anyone right now.

It is premature to discuss anything related to the hardware requirements.  The only thing we have said, so far, is it will require a video card which supports Shader Model 3, or later.

When we have reached a point where the requirements and recommendations are firm, we will let everyone know.

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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2014, 02:49:04 AM »
Quote from: BaldEagl on September 27, 2014, 07:00:59 PM
Shush.

How dare you question Ripley.  Don't you know he's always right?  I'm sure he'll be along shortly to argue with you.

You guys just can't read english. I said it's fairly safe to ASSUME http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assumption. I can assume anything I want and wait HTC to hopefully prove me wrong. At no point I was claiming AH will not be multithreaded I just noted that given the hardware target specs mentioned earlyer it doesn't seem very probable.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2014, 07:07:02 AM »
I agree with Ripley :old:

I know nothing about computers and dont intend to :)
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2014, 08:20:14 AM »
Well, you both make wild assumptions at least.  :D
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2014, 10:44:22 AM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on September 28, 2014, 02:49:04 AM
You guys just can't read english. I said it's fairly safe to ASSUME http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assumption. I can assume anything I want and wait HTC to hopefully prove me wrong. At no point I was claiming AH will not be multithreaded I just noted that given the hardware target specs mentioned earlyer it doesn't seem very probable.

doesnt ah run on at least two cores now on intel chips?



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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2014, 12:44:46 PM »
Quote from: guncrasher on September 28, 2014, 10:44:22 AM
doesnt ah run on at least two cores now on intel chips?



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Yes it does so also on AMD chips. That's not the point. In order for a software to scale efficiently to multiple cores it has to be built multithreaded. Multithreaded apps suffer in performance when running on ancient cpus so its a tradeoff I'd be surprised HTC would make considering the AH user demographic and the target hardware in the update. Actually even many modern low cost CPUs run only on two cores and no hyperthreading.
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2014, 08:03:44 AM »
Quote from: Skuzzy on September 27, 2014, 02:58:44 PM
, so far, is it will require a video card which supports Shader Model 3, or later.



Ok. How does one find if their card supports it or not?
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Re: How many Cores?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2014, 10:09:38 AM »
Virtually any video card made in the last 6 years supports Shader Model 3.0 (for NVidia I believe it is a 6600 series, or later).  You also must have DirectX 9.0c, or later.
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