Will Heroes V support duel core? | Forums

[Gashtank]

Hi Everybody

Does anyone know if Hereos V will support dual core processors like Pentium D and amd x2?

[znork]

My wild gues is yes!

[Gashtank]

well thanks Znork...

I have heard that i won't, but i thought that all modern games would be optimezid for multi-core technology

[WizIce]

Multi-core support isn't trivial to program. If you have a good compiler it migh do the trick, but that might not be enough. You must program in multi-process then hope the OS will schedule it on the different CPU's. For a game like heroes having multi-process would be cool, then it can properly support multi-core (even more ten 2). I just think this woun't happen, game programmers are not HPC programmers.

[Gashtank]

Thx WizIce

Yeah it could be really cool. Maybe they have time to make it wirk with Multible cores now that they have choosed to delay the release...

[goodrix]

Wowowowooo.... Are u absolutely sure it won't work on a dual-core processor ? Why ? I was just going to completele overhaul my system to a Pentium D mostly because of HOMM and because this is the near future of PC technology.

Somebody who is really knowledgeable pls reply. (Any tech support guys around here ?)

[znork]

Originally posted by goodrix:
Wowowowooo.... Are u absolutely sure it won't work on a dual-core processor ? Why ? I was just going to completele overhaul my system to a Pentium D mostly because of HOMM and because this is the near future of PC technology.

Somebody who is really knowledgeable pls reply. (Any tech support guys around here ?)

Well wizice and me are prity in the loop. So FC would have to answer this. But looking back at som posts way back i think wizice is correct!

[goodrix]

Well, most recent Pentium processors have Hyper-threading which is a multiprocessing technology (simultaneous multithreading). They process two threads at a time. I suppose most applications nowadays are already multithreaded. A dual-core processor can do 4 threads at a time. But I think the principle is still the same.

Anyway, so let's say that HOMM is not designed to work multithreaded. But still, it should work on a Pentium D as a simple "single"-threaded application. Does it ?

[WizIce]

Originally posted by goodrix:
Well, most recent Pentium processors have Hyper-threading which is a multiprocessing technology (simultaneous multithreading). They process two threads at a time. I suppose most applications nowadays are already multithreaded. A dual-core processor can do 4 threads at a time. But I think the principle is still the same.

Anyway, so let's say that HOMM is not designed to work multithreaded. But still, it should work on a Pentium D as a simple "single"-threaded application. Does it ?

You can stick your fingers in your eyes! Now a days programs are still light years from Multi-threading. OS do it but not end user applications. The only one I know for sur that uses Dual core or Hyperthreading is Window Media Player & Tools, most CAD and 3D design applications. Of course Linpack (benchmarking) is there as well.

I do program on multi CPUs (max I have ever programmed is on 256 Xeon 3 GHz) and I can tell I don't use windows, I stick to Linux. Windows isn't made for dual or more (kind of a gizzmo right now). I'm waiting for M$ to come out with their HPC Windows version and see.

Well you dual core PC isn't trash, at least you can run multi application in parallel and the OS will schedule them on each CPU, so you have the impression it is fast. The applications themselves stil are still on 1 CPU.

PS: One of the first thing I did on my brand new PC was to remove the Hyperthreading. Kind of totally useless because it didn't increase overall perf on my PC, more the other way around. Well I'm more using one application at time but that requires truckload of CPU power.

[goodrix]

i.c.
So bottom line, HOMM5 will run just fine on a dual-core processor like Pentium D (let's say 830), but will perform just like on a normal "sigle-process" CPU.
Plus there is the advantage of multi-tasking, right ?. I can run winamp and HOMM5 at the same time without a significant impact on the CPU processing load.