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Re: BioShock Infinite PC Details & Specs

Jan 15, 2013, 17:41

AngelicPenguin

descender wrote on Jan 15, 2013, 17:14: "I thought that was terrific that they were taking advantage of current hardware." That is certainly one way of looking at it. Another way to look at it is... why did it run so poorly on your dual core cpu? It all has to do with how the game is programmed. Some games only use the physical cores they assign threads to, some just report CPU needs to the OS and have the OS handle the load balancing. Crysis 2 is actually a perfect example of a game that is not threaded properly. It uses 3 cores (because it's an x360 coded game at heart) and does some weird load balancing for any more than that. I'll take your word for it using 3, which certainly seems plausible since it ran better on a quad core which has 3. I don't know how that translates to not being threaded properly, however. Unless you are an engine programmer and crack open the source code, I don't see how one can make that claim from the outside. This seems a bit off topic from Bioshock Infinite though.

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