Will ET:QW be configured to support dual core processors?? Dual cores are the future of processors, and ET:QW is going to be the future of gaming, so I figure the two would go well together nicely 
That and it would help my 4800+ X2 immensely.
Anyone have any idea?
afaik nothing has been said about that issue. but quake 4 supports dual core with a recent patch and this was used at E3:
Processor: Intel Pentium D Processor 950 w/ Dual Core Technology 3.4GHz 800MHz FSB
so i don’t think you have a problem if you have a good graca. imo you can expect dual core to be supported, or at least to be supported after a patch. this is nothing concrete though.
I sure do! Click on that crazy text up top that says “Search” and put in your query! AMAZING! 
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Congrats, you’re a facetious moron! Fact is that there is nothing definitive, and nothing current posted on the issue. There is nothing official mentioning dual core support, and no posts on the matter within the last 2 months. Be that as it may, I could have missed an official news tidbit or something in the last 2 months that divulged whether or not ET:QW would support it, which is why I asked.
Go crawl back under your bridge.
ET:QW uses the doom 3 engine right?
Does that support dual cores?
If it does, ET:QW will nearly difinatly support it (yeah right, like they are gonna take it out 
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If it doesnt, They might put it in, because it looks pretty rescore (sp) heavy
And if it doesnt get put it, no worries! just open up 2 ET:QW’s
Nothing’s official. I think that bacon would rather see you bumping an old thread then making a new one… And that’s what search is for. 
The migthy search button revealed this topic: http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=14596
Asked 2 times before so use the search function ffs. Q4 has it afdter a patch so big chnace that ET:QW will have dualcore support direct or after patch, but nothing sutre, thats all.
If the machines acutally running the game had dual core processors, then the game is going to support dual core processors.
Why are people asking about dual core/SMP so rude? Was a bad attitude included in the box? :moo:
Not at all. Remember, the sponsorship is a marketing exercise. All it means is that the Dell/Alienware wanted to pimp that particular system.
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Actually, Rhoades is right, but that isn’t the question the original poster was trying to ask. Any game that isn’t broken will support dual core. It may only use one core, but it will run. If it didn’t support dual core, that would mean something bad happened when you tried to run it on an dual core system. What the OP and others really want to know is will it get an advantage from running on dual core. That is unknown.
Yeah, jesus. So what, Ragnar, the E3 demo machines used a dual core processor. I was asking, as SCDS elaborated, if ET:QW will take advantage of running using both cores at the same time. I don’t understand the unwarranted obnoxious attitude from people saying “USE THE SARCH FUNCSHUN”, when I did and there’s nothing official about utilizing both cores. Bumping an old thread instead I could understand I suppose, but like I said, I read the one that was posted in March about the same topic, and decide to make a new one instead. If that’s so bad, then I apologize.
As I said in the other thread, you can use the E3 systems to make very broad generalizations about the kind of hardware you might use in a high end system that will run the game well. Fact 1: Those systems had a 7800GTX, but that does not mean you have to have a 7800 to run the game, but we do know that even when unoptimized, the game ran very smoothly on one. Moral: buy a 7800GTX or better, and you’re set in terms of graphics, although many lesser cards will likely be supported. Fact 2: The E3 machines had multicore CPUs. Moral: The unoptimized E3 build runs on a multicore platform. This does not mean it is actively using both processors, we have no evidence to prove nor disprove it. However, it is fair to say that given the context of the E3 machine specs, it is likely that multicore CPUs are supported and that the game will be designed with multicore optimizations.What we have here is the difference between evidence, facts and opinion.
Statement: In my opinion, it is likely that QuakeWars will have full multicore CPU support based on the fact that the unoptimized game was verified to be running quite nicely on a multicore CPU at E3, and evidence that suggests that multicore support is desired and available to players (ultimately, to the consumers who pay for the game).
Facts: The game can run on a multi CPU platform. The game is unoptimized. QuakeWars is a cutting edge game (megatextures, for example). SD has verfied these facts.
Evidence: Smooth gameplay, quality of E3 system hardware used, development trends in the industry, Q4 supports multiCPUs (with patch), a lot of consumer desire for the game to support multi CPU, the cutting edge technolgies represented in the game suggest that SplashDamage is very forward-thinking in their design philosophy, both Intel and AMD have excellently performing current and future multicore chips.
Opinion: It is likely that QW will have multicore CPU support and the technology is in place to make it happen.
With a bit of imaginative thinking (and because I’m bored) and looking at some privious game releases from id colaborative games, like quake 4 and there own Doom 3 which both has been patched to take advantage of dual core cpus. And then adding in that ET:QW isn’t optimized yet according to the devs, we can asume it will have dual core but since it has low priority due to other things needed to be finalized it’s probably not something they wish to talk about yet.
So to kind of guess the developers reply
“Yes we will support dual core, either on release or through a patch”
Lets see if we can lure them out to give us an anwser
Maybe it’s time to upgrade from my old p4 2.8 HT…
Hmm, don’t know where I got that from… I was sure it had, but you’re right, it hasn’t.
Maybe multicore is more to the point as AMD release K8L in Jan (?) 2007 and Intel have some similar multicore processors in the pipeline for around the same time.
I say multicore because K8L and the Intel offerings are QUAD core.
Also 2008 (if ETQW) is still going will see up to 9 cores, so multicore rather than specifically dual core support is the way to go.
Couldn’t find the AMD roadmap but Intel clearly shows quad core in 2007:
Al.
I’ve asked this same question multiple times here and in IRC. I don’t think they want to/can answer this question at the moment.
