Originally Posted by immortal44

Do we know if SH4 supports dual core

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Forum members with low to mid range systems can help themselves by closing down applications like virus scan and screensaver during the game. They will notice a big difference.

Also, I see people posting that they think they'll be fine because their graphics card has 512MB of RAM. The fact of the matter is that 256MB of RAM is more than adequate on a graphis card for this game and it's the speed of the card and the version of pixel shader supported that matters. My 256MB GeForce 7600GT card beats the pants off quite a few 512MB graphics cards I can think of.

Originally Posted by immortal44

Forum members with low to mid range systems can help themselves by closing down applications like virus scan and screensaver during the game.

Great point. You can obviously shut stuff down using ctrl-alt-del but if anyone doesn't know you can edit startup by going to start-> run and type msconfig. Select selective startup, disable load startup items, then go to the services tab, select hide microsoft services, then select disable all. Press apply, then exit and restart. When the system restarts only essential programs will be loaded, freeing up as much cpu and memory as possible. This doesn't stop you from using applications, it just doesn't start them when you load windows.

Originally Posted by flintlock

I haven't read any official information on whether or not SH4 shall support multithreading. My guess is not, simply because it's essentially the same engine as SH3, and if it now supported multithreading, Ubi's marketing deptartment would likely have advertised this tidbit.

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

set affinity for the game for both cores and/or overclock ive heard that 90% of the c2d 1.86 ghz can overclock to 2.8-3.0ghz !!!! but u have to have a gogod motherboard and good ram.

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

me being a hardware pro my advice is to be listened to :up:
pentium 4 used something called net burst architecture, where the cpu used long but small amount of pipelines, like for ex 1 long gas pipe thats very very wide in diameter, and used speed in hertz to counter the effects of only one pipeline, basically like a high pressure fat water pipe, now amd's 64 socket 939 whcih came out had much shorter pipelines but more of em and they didnt have to be such a fast speed thats when u see amd 64 athlons at 2-2.2 ghz beating pentium 4 extreme editions at 3.6ghz and faster. amd's 64 had much more pipelines which where lower speed and slimmer, thus they were cooler then the p4 prescott(notorious for high heat) and it didnt have to use much voltage to run. now Intels core 2 duo is similar, BUT there pipelines are fatter, more of them, and higher clocked, heat is still a problem but since they are using different ingredients (more $$$) they are a litle bit cooler) the c2d now outperforms the 64, THIS year AMD will be releasing their "barcelona' quad core which has a specially designed new architecture and for the first time in quad cores L3 cache, which helps alot in server processing and a 60% boost in gaming (AI computing, physics etc...) reviews have said barcelona wil run at high speeds will drainining a whopping 110 watts this is very VERY low for a quad core while intels use around 150-200 watts on full load. so hold your horses for c2d because barcelona will be here mid 07 and amd always releases every 2 years something that beats intel, intel released the pentium 4 to beat the amd athlon xp s462 line then amd released amd 64, staying ahead of intel for a few years, now intel releases c2d and amd releases osmetihng even better mid 07, c2d was jus a bump on the road, pentium 4 was a big achievement and when intel does that big achievement again then u can go nuts on intel cuz then intel will rule for a few years until amd releases something even better.

hope i helps

cheers

Originally Posted by Magua

What does that mean for us with Duo Core Processors like a C2D 1.86?

Originally Posted by GakunGak

And what will it mean for us with P4 HT @3.0?:hmm: