To Oleg, and all,
I came across this article from bit-tech.net today. It's tittled "how many CPU cores do games need?" Here's the link:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...o-games-need/1
Reading this article I saw where many of the games showed no performance improvement beyond using a dual core, though some did. The GPUs used were ATi's 5870, and Nvidia's GTX470. Notice that Crysis, an older game, did quite well running on just two cores compared to three or four (or five or six) cores. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 seems to make good use of two cores as well, but shows no great improvement in FPS when adding more cores, though the game is said to be "highly threaded" I take that to mean it takes equal advantage of all four cores, for example. That should spread the workload nicely.
Of course it begs the obvious question. Is SoW_BoB highly threaded? Dual and quad core CPUs have been out for a while now, so I don't think I'm asking the team to give away too much by answering that question. Such coding has probably been long established by now.
Flyby out