i7's with HT disabled as of 1.18 improves performance

[Agamemnon_71]

So I decided to try this out again since I'm checking out a few mods. While doing so I also increased my OC to 5.0 just to see if it would be stable.
Running a torture-test in p95 I got a max temp of 81 degrees. In-game it never goes over 70 degrees or 90% cpu-usage. It runs one core close to 90% and the other three at about 40%.
The one thing I did notice was that my one-core-690 (basically a 680) finally reached 100%.
The fps? I gained about 5 at Smokestack.
So yes the CPU is the bottleneck in this game, but not because it's slow. It's because the coding is so bad it doesn't use it properly.

Edit/
To clarify things: I run this at 2560x1600 everything on max, no shadows and 2xAA. My lowest fps at Smokestack at 5 GHz no HT is about 25.
And the fact that some players see an increase in FPS a few hours into the game is likely because trade breaks down and free up cpu-cycles for performance...