Comments on: 1.10.2014

By: Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:19:25 +0000

Game is shit coded really. Right now if you look at the resource monitor in MSI afterburner you see that only one cpu core is constantly at 75-99% usage and GPU usage is between 25-99% all the time, which explains the twitchy feeling and fps drops. This mean that the cpu bottlenecks the gpu. The game demands too much cpu resources for one core to handle, and I have a i7 4930k at 4.5Ghz.

While in bf4 multiplayer gpu usage is between 80-99% all the time, much more linear graph and the cpu usage is alot lower. This is why people have higher and more stable fps. Because the game is true multicore, it tax each core as much minimizing the risk of bottlenecking the gpu.

By: Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:05:23 +0000

It depends on your defention of “multicore coded”. If you speak about multicore coded like battlefield 3 and 4, crysis, watch dogs, sleeping dogs, photoshop, video editiong software etc. Then no, most games do not use all cores and threads at the same time. The multiocre WG speaks about is simply letting additional cores handle some aspect of the game like sound, textures and visual effects (havoc).

I am not a programmer but I know for a fact that only few games are done like bf3/bf4, and this is what we wanted all time.

By: evi7stylez .

evi7stylez . — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:21:09 +0000

Not only that happened. I remember a Q&A thread, where it was stated, that Havok will come in 9.0… yeah, it worked out well ;)

By: alex16

alex16 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 06:06:05 +0000

All games that are being realeased are multicore coded ,and released in the past 3 years

By: nononononono

nononononono — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:10:44 +0000

PhysX can be amazing…anybody that ran the effects on high with an nVidia card installed while playing BL2 can attest to the beauty of destructable cloth fabrics…

Havoc is a software physics middleware implemented in such games as New Vegas…kinda silly but better than no player-world interaction at all…

By: Kinderschlager

Kinderschlager — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:37:57 +0000

i’ll believe that when pigs fly

By: Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:09:54 +0000

Havoc physics is just visual effects, nothing else. And because these visual effects will be run on a different core than the “main” game, most people that has more than 1 core cpu will at least not get “much” worse performance than now. The reason they say that weak computers will be able to use havoc can be that they have toned down the effects, making them more simple. and hence takes less effort to code.

And no, the multicore support we all wanted is not what WG will implement. We think of multicore support like battlefield 3 and 4 where the “whole” game and all aspects of the game use several cpu cores at the same time. The multicore support WG speak about is old school shit, like in WOW and Flight Simulator where things like effects, sound and texture are beeing used by additional cores. That is why WG say that multicore wont bring any serious performance upgrades and that is true because alot of tasks will still only use one core (main game). Only a small percentage of all games are true multcore coded like bf3/bf4 and for that tó happen in wot they need a new game engine and they need to re-code the whole game and that will take one year at least.

What might be an issue is the new motion physics which are more advanced and hence will use more cpu resorces. See, it is all about the cpu resorces not so much about gpu.

By: alex16

alex16 — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:54:33 +0000

I knew that, I didnt remeber the dates when they said it and put some random days
And for the HD models they said one or two days earlyer that 9.4 will bring many new HD tanks :)

By: Bugii

Bugii — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:50:03 +0000

actually this already happened :D

one there was QA here on FTR saying “9.4 will bring initial stages of havoc and it will contain a lot of new HD models”
and the day after in QA was “Havok will definitely not come in 9.4. Probably no HD models in 9.4 either”

litreally one day they say something the ext day they deny it…

By: alex16

alex16 — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:35:57 +0000

Second week: Havok will come in 9.4
Three days later: havok will probably come in 9.4
Two days after that: Havok will defenetly not come in 9.4

keep this up and we will see Havok in 10.7