That would be prefectly true if the game was the only thing running on your PC.
However, that's never the case, any PC will have a multitude of other processes running. And so long as there is any software running that does make full use of the quadcore (such as the OS if you have Vista 64 for example) it does help you out indirectly by making other things more efficiently thus freeing up resources for the game.
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