Is TOH multi-core CPU friendly?

[Isaac 10]

Hi

I would like to know what are the experiences on CPU core usage for those using i5 or i7 CPUs (or similar).

Is TOH using all the cores? Can you appreciate variations while flying?

Thanks

[Derbysieger 11]

My Core i7 920 has a usage of about 30-60% on 4 Threads. Since HT is not supported I get an overall usage between 15%-30%, most time about 18%-25%

[lNTRUDER 26]

My old quad Q8400 is using all 4 cores, for what it's worth.

[_YoYo_ 10]

Right, something about 40% for all cores and 40-50% of my RAM.

[Isaac 10]

Thanks a lot guys, that information is very much appreciated.

(mental note, my i3 will remain, cool :286:)

[Derbysieger 11]

By the way, I tested the game with my i7 on stock settings to see how much of an advantage OC'ing gives you and I can say it's massive. I had to turn viewdistance and object viewdistance way down and also lowered Object detail to low. Only then fps were in the same area (25-40) as I have them with these settings and my i7 @ 3,99GHz.

Edited October 12, 2011 by Derbysieger

[Isaac 10]

Well, my i3 at stock runs quite smoothly with many things medium - high (not post processing and no PiP) so I guess that the performance is quite similar with an i7...

I will try to add a screenshot of my actual config latter on...

Safe flight :-)

[maruk 80]

Take On Helicopters pretty much requires at least dual core in order to run well and quad core CPU is recommended.

Some insight to how the Real Virtuality Engine is Going Multicore

is available as well. btw, measuring how busy/loaded the cores are hardly can serve as any way to judge real benefit in terms of performance or amount of data the engine can handle in the game.

[Isaac 10]

Hi Maruk,

I find your comment interesting, specially the part where you say that the load of each core is not representative of the benefit, so:

1. Should I understand that the more cores available, the more parallel processes Real Virtuality Engine (RVE) will start? (I guess there is a limit but provably not close to today CPU number of cores).
   
2. If there are only two cores available then only some of the RVE processes would be started leaving some secondary tasks as never started? (the following computational cycle would be too late to start the process)
   
3. As a conclusion is it acceptable to say that someone with only two cores is not going to see a lower performance than someone with four cores (assuming same platform) but it will see a less detailed/rich simulation?
   

Maruk, beside my questions, and as I already stated to one of your workmates on the phone (offline activation), thanks a lot for your work, it is very much appreciated :)