Dual CPU for complex/CPU intensive mods. Any benefit?

[ErdeFB]

Specificly concerning AP:

Like stated in topic, would/could the game utilize the second CPU at all when running multple mods? Or just in general when in bigger fights and what not? Normally my game turns into a slide show with my i5 when in places like Omicron Lyrae and such when big fights are going on. This is more apparent with some big mods.

I have access to hardware with dual xenons with PCI-E x16 support, but would rather save the electricity if I get no benefit from it.

And this is no tthe section, buut could X Rebirth's engine utilize dual CPU's?

PS: There seems to be a forum bug where you can't have a BBcode tags inside a set of other tags eg. color tags inside size tags.

Thanks.

[Alan Phipps]

The game exe for all X2/X3 games is entirely single-thread and so uses one core/thread only. What any other cores/threads available can do is run the supporting drivers, OS services and background applications to keep some of that load off the core running the game. Naturally you can usefully share the graphics load between the cpu and gpu with careful setting up of the game and graphics card settings; the more powerful the graphics card or chipset, the more you can probably move away from the cpu.

Intelligent OS/cpu managers *may* independently and entirely swap heavy singlethread program loads between available cores to allow balancing of heat and stress histories across the cores to maintain a good overall cpu lifetime. This is why setting a core affinity is not always a good idea for such exes.

3rd party mods would only change that situation if they somehow called external applications to do useful things outside the game (eg perhaps external hotkey managers and macro managers, or separate data processing or disk/RAM transfer, etc)

X Rebirth is a multithreaded exe and will use whatever cores/threads are made available to it. A cpu with at least 4 real cores is recommended for it.