Half Life 2: Episode 2 Quick Performance Preview

[Manny Calavera]

There is a definite performance advantage with 2 cores over 1 core in EP2.... more later.

As in Valve will improve on this (hopefully soon,like yesterday) so that those of us with four cores get a boost as well ?

 

[Toytown]

There is 3 threads run in HL2 EP2, so those with 4 cores will not see the full benefit, Valve have stated the reason for this is due to caching issues on Intels Quad Cores.........however you can use the cmdline to force it to use 4 or even 8 threads, although valve admit it could hamper performance due to the caching issue.

There is a definite performance advantage with 2 cores over 1 core in EP2.... more later.

really

so that those of us with four cores get a boost as well ?

Remember your only going to see the full usage off them cores, if the rest of the system can keep up. I doubt a 8800GTX is good enough to keep up with a quadcore. Unless you are lowing the resolution and details for testing.

 

[Blackstone]

I don't get it--it runs without a hitch on my Core2Duo, so what is the point? I mean without a hitch a single hitch.

As long as the CPU isn't the bottleneck does it matter? Source just isn't that demanding. It isn't a CPU pushing game.

 

[oozish]

It would be nice to see game developers really start to implement multi core, and I think we'll see it in the future, but it's really slow getting started.

Regardless, as far as this excellent game goes, it already runs flawlessly so I guess it doesn't matter that much. Of course, to me, this game looks about the same as HL2 so it's hardly next gen.

 

[dennab205]

I don't get it--it runs without a hitch on my Core2Duo, so what is the point? I mean without a hitch a single hitch.

As long as the CPU isn't the bottleneck does it matter? Source just isn't that demanding. It isn't a CPU pushing game.

well thats really the opposite of reviews used to say. I remember how the Source engines was considered to be very cpu dependent.