Hardware - Does AoC like Quad cores ?

[Tezca]

Hello,

A lot of people including me are about to buy a brand new computer for their incoming favorite game.

Does AoC use all 4 cores of a Quad core ?
It might not matter much, but should we get a Quad core or a higher-clock Dual core to play AoC ?

Thank you.

[Athelan]

Originally Posted by Tezca

Hello,

A lot of people including me are about to buy a brand new computer for their incoming favorite game.

Does AoC use all 4 cores of a Quad core ?
It might not matter much, but should we get a Quad core or a higher-clock Dual core to play AoC ?

Thank you.

Conan does take advantage of multi core CPU's however, the CPU is not the big bottle neck and graphics card, ram, and hard disk even are probably more important for performance.

[Halla]

Originally Posted by Athelan

Conan does take advantage of multi core CPU's however, the CPU is not the big bottle neck and graphics card, ram, and hard disk even are probably more important for performance.

Can you tell me what is then? since you are a developer you I really would like some advice.

On my system AoC frame drops to 10 per second quite often and thats in instances with only a few players. I bet in big raids or heavy pvp AoC turns unplayable.

I meet the specs,
- Mainboard Asus P5W64 WS PRO
- PSU Corsair 620W ATX
- Intel C2Duo E6300 2MB clocked at 2,4 GHZ
- 4GB RAM. 2 identical sets of Corsair 6400C4 clocked at settings Corsair recommends.
- 4 SATAII harddrives in raid-0
- Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB gfx card.

Atm I run Vista 64bit ultimate.

Considering an C2Duo E8400 would be acceptable and running an Windows 64bit XP copy too, but please dont tell me to buy an geforce 9xxxx series gfx card.

I can't get into official forums so I would really appreciate feedback from you as developer or other gamers with similiar specs.

regards

[Netferret]

Originally Posted by Athelan

Conan does take advantage of multi core CPU's however, the CPU is not the big bottle neck and graphics card, ram, and hard disk even are probably more important for performance.

If this is the case can you tell me why people who have the high-end graphics cards see improvemed fps when using a higher clocked cpu?

Also I have heard that no one can yet get the maximum out of their graphics card as the CPU is always the bottle-neck.

This maybe incorrect but this is what I have read is several different articles and there does seem to be evidence for this.

[Bloodwrych]

You can if curious toggle multicore support on/off ingame via CTRL+ALT+C i think from memory....although it is toggled on by default