Gaming thread count

[Evan_6]

how can i find how many threads a game uses? i tried doing a google search for it but found nothing

 

[emdea22]

You do a core scaling benchmark and find out for yourself since there aren't many of those on the web.

Set resolution to 720p or lower
Do a benchmark run then disable a core then do the same benchmark run and so on until you run it on a single core
Note your Avg FPS and see how well it scales.

A few examples from my tests:
Dota 2 and Source Engine games like Portal / TF2 / CS:GO etc (old engine) Max 3 cores - 1 core always overused A.K.A main core
Dota 2 (new engine - 4 (or more?) cores / more balanced load
Crysis 3 - 6-8 cores - heavy load on the first 6
Witcher 3 - initial patch i was getting 4 cores max but after that things improved to more (?) cores

 

[getochkn]

No real list like that.

If you go here though, http://gamegpu.ru/ and click on tect game on the left and check out the game categories, you can see how some games do with different CPU's and their core usages, etc.

 

[Jonathan Cave]

#i7hype

Intel make so much money from people buying i7's rather than i5's for the extra threads - which are never utilised hence the same fps in games.

DX 12 game ashes of singularity can max out 16 cores apparently based on some pre-requisites.