Quote Originally Posted by drone
These fancy dual and quad core machines are wasted on us at the moment, since the games don't know how to use the extra core(s) properly. It's going to be a while before game engines are properly coded to run parallel and make use of all the extra power.
So far I know that Gothic 3 and Medieval 2 both make use of my two cores.
Medieval 2 uses one more than the other and Gothic 3 uses both to full extend. IIRC Gothic 3 is multithreadeda nd the second core can for example stream the world while the first will run the actual game, makes for smoother performance, someone official even said it may never run without reload lag on a single core...
I know, just one or two games so far, but I think if they can do it, others can and should as well.