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jamieuk147
03-17-2009, 16:04
Out of all games that needed Multi core support its this one!!. I hate the way on all there video previews at the end it says "plays great on i7". Well i7 is Quad.

Is there any talk of a patch or something to allow more cores ?

I all ways thought that Empire would be the game that would allow even huger armies as so many people have Quad cores these days, in 6 month intel's 8 cores will be out !!

Any info is appreciated !

antisocialmunky
03-17-2009, 16:07
1, and yes there will be a multicore patch.

Merak
03-17-2009, 16:10
do you have any source for that claim, i never thought that they would make it multithreaded as it suppoce to be to much work. i saw an other programmer explain it but cant remember for the life of me were

Hooahguy
03-17-2009, 16:11
but that patch will be in June, i think. or july. :sweatdrop:

antisocialmunky
03-17-2009, 16:16
I think it was part of the IGN interview or something. At any rate, programming games for more than 2 cores is pretty tough. Programming for 2 cores in itself is somewhat hard due to all the synchronization issues. Having a buttload of general purpose cores is probably best reserved for computers that have to process tons of jobs or process jobs that are easily modularized.

jamieuk147
03-17-2009, 16:16
got a link to were that is confirmed ? could be good old chinese wispers thats all

Merak
03-17-2009, 16:19
found two links about this it is not CA responce but
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=238195

and the next

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228572

jamieuk147
03-17-2009, 16:22
Thanks for the links mate !! will have a good read !

Merak
03-17-2009, 16:46
no problem one of them is gigantic so could take awhile :)