Quad/Triple Core CPUs..Will Empire be optimised?

[hellenes]

IMO this is a VERY important point. The RTW engine was designed and optimised for single gore CPUs...Thus the whole 10000 men technical limit.
With the establishment of dual cores and the rising quad/triple cores this number (apart from graphics where it can be easily scaled too, though there are GPUs that can take huge loads of polygons) can obviously be pushed much further....
Now a question arises: Will ETW be optimised to take advantage of strong CPUs? So people with quad/triple core processors actually have their money's worth? And more realistic and impressive troop count?

[Husar]

I would hope so.
If game developers haven't noticed that trend yet, their games will fall behind technically in not too much time I guess.

[rajpoot]

The 10000 man limit is still there :(
If CA have taken into consideration the new CPUs, they certainly haven't used it in unit sizes.

[Martok]

Indeed, CA has already said that battles will be restricted to the usual 10,000 men. Perhaps they do so in order to not keep the game within reach of only moderately-powerful machines like mine? I don't know really know how that works.

[hellenes]

Indeed, CA has already said that battles will be restricted to the usual 10,000 men. Perhaps they do so in order to not keep the game within reach of only moderately-powerful machines like mine? I don't know really know how that works.

If one can choose unit sizes whats the problem? Why not utilize the technology available? Why stay stuck in 2001?

[Polemists]

The problem I think is the fact that most people do not have quad or triple core pcs. Even amongst the gamer market, your hardly talking mainstream. Empire is aiming for massive sales and while games like Crysis look good, it's games with the graphics equivilent of Civ 4, EU III, and MTW 2 that dominate the pcs of turn based gaming.

The day may come when it's 20,000 but for the time being they are sticking with 10, and that's more then enough for me. I don't need to see 100,000 v 100,000. Even with 10,000 v 10,000 I already have to much action to actually watch or enjoy anything, so I usually go with 2,000 v 2,000.