GotNoRice
[H]F Junkie
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I was playing WoW today, and had task manager up on my 2nd display so that I could keep an eye on Ram usage (trying to get an idea if going to 2 gigs will help things or not). While I was playing though, I noticed that the CPU usage was hovering between 30% and 35%. Since I have Xeons with hyperthreading, 25% cpu usage essentially represents 100% CPU usage for one processor. Usually with games it does not go higher than 25% at all.
Does anyone have any idea why it appears to be utilizing SMP at least partially? Could this simply be the result of using the new 5.12 catalyst drivers? Does WoW run stuff like the sound engine in another thread like UT2004? WoW doesnt actually support SMP, does it?
Does anyone have any idea why it appears to be utilizing SMP at least partially? Could this simply be the result of using the new 5.12 catalyst drivers? Does WoW run stuff like the sound engine in another thread like UT2004? WoW doesnt actually support SMP, does it?