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SLI/Crossfire and more than 2 core support - Developers please confirm :)

February 8, 2012 4:09:55 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hi,

 

Can one of the developers confirm if Rebellion will have SLI/Crossfire support (by support I mean working and making game run faster as opposed to most games having huge issues with more than 1 card).

 

Will Rebellion be able to utilise more than 2 cores? Again by utilising I mean effective spread of workload so the game runs faster

 

Thank you

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Pupetier
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Reply #1 February 8, 2012 6:06:27 AM
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Devs stated on many occasions that multi core support needs complete rewriting of the game engine and therefore wont happen for Rebellion.

Even now game doesn't support 2 cores. 2nd core is used for loading game only. It is not used for anything else.

What you can do is OC your CPU if possible. I have 2 machines. One 4MHz other 2.7MHz. On first one game runs much smoother for longer and even Distant Stars with 10 players with 4000 fleet supply each is playable while on other it turns into screenshots.

They didn't mention SLI but I don't believe it will happen either. 

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Teun-A-Roonius
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Reply #2 February 8, 2012 6:26:29 AM
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Dual SLI works with every game, since it does't rely on multi core support at all. It even works on practically ancient games, so yes, you can make use of double video cards in this game.

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RiddleKing
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Reply #3 February 8, 2012 6:59:12 AM
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Basically your not allowed to eat with a folk and knife with this game in terms of CPU cores. Your only allowed to use a folk which is much easier to program for the developers but gets messy when you have to eat a steak.

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Reply #4 February 8, 2012 9:36:15 AM
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No to all the OP above, though we have made significant optimizations to performance.

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Reply #5 February 8, 2012 10:30:25 AM
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Quoting Yarlen,
reply 4
(...)though we have made significant optimizations to performance.
Glad to hear this!

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