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Article #86763Re: Dual 900s for Doom III?
From: Steve Wolfe
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:17
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:17
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> Dual CPU machines need to have _software_ that's designed to run on a multi > processor machine, otherwise one processor sits there like an unemployed bum > feeding pigeons in the park. Sorry. > > Quake 3 was actually one of a few of extremely rare gaming apps that did > happen to utilize MP machines but I don't think D3 does. Q3 didn't even have much SMP code, it merely let certain drivers (a certain release of the Detonator drivers) run in a seperate thread - about a 10% performance increase for most people. Early on, Carmack said that D3 would be fully multithreaded, and would support SMP systems. Later on, he recanted. : ( steve
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