In Garry's Mod, I had a saved game with 100+ characters spawned in a tight circle. I threw a grenade in the middle and it slows the computer down to a crawl, like the 3dmark cpu tests. I also had a saved game where I drove the car through a ton of antlions. This is the taskmgr ss...
Well I guess the real disappointment is that Valve has been silent, leaving its users (read customers) to guess and speculate and post screenshots and wait for a steampowered forum admin to approve my account so I can ***** there, too.
btw ep2 looks great, thanks valve.
Doesn't look like Valve included the multi-core support update. What a disappointment, to say the least.
Here is a screenshot of taskmgr after playing hl2: ep2:
http://www.mldweb.com/cpu1.jpg
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