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Originally Posted by tuanming
First of all, we're talking about Alan Wake not Crysis... Secondly, who told you that Crysis was quad core optimized?  or do u meant "multi-core"?... Thirdly, you got proof that this game doesn't take advantage of 4 cores? I guess you missed the part where the developers/designers talks about how they will make uses of multi-core technology. |
Make uses? Yes.
Will it uses
fully the potential of 4-cores? No.
Come on, it's a multiplatform game, don't kid yourself on how well they'll use it.
Second, you seem to have missed the part where I said :
"It will uses the 4-cores (possibly) but it won't be really "optimized" for it. It's not taking full advantages of it and is more of a "we may as well tap into that power since it's there, but we're not exactly refining that power into a beautiful gem and make it SHINE".
You can remove the possibly since it's confirmed (I didn't bother enough to go back and confirm it even tho I thought they did) but the rest is still true.
And Alan Wake is not Crysis? NO WAI
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There's a difference between fully exploiting the power of 4-cores (and optimizing it) and simply using the 4-cores to do more stuff.
Alan Wake fits in the second category, which I never denied. I wasn't saying "nooo it's impossible they won't use the 4-cores!". Simply stating that it's not like Alan Wake will uses it like it never was before.
You really think they'd focus THAT much on 4-cores? They're obviously working in a "we'll take advantage of multi-cores" way (which can be seen even more by the start of the video) and thinking "we may as well add the physics to the additional cores too".
Which has been done and seen before.
Focusing on 4-cores to truly bring out the max potential of it, to the detriment of older stuff, would be
shooting themselves in the foot.
And it's obviously not what they're doing.
I'm not sure how I have to put it to make it clear (
"we may as well tap into that power since it's there, but we're not exactly refining that power into a beautiful gem and make it SHINE" should have been clear).. Yes the game uses 4-cores. Not it's not doing something amazing that couldn't be done before.
They're not doing some amazing optimization for Quad-Cores specifically is my point.
Not that they're not using them.
They're obviously using them.
(and they're using it well, I love a game making good uses of physics, but they're not doing something that warrant some big emphasis like this)