New patch: is the Processaffinity mask the reason for mixed results??

[simast]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

I have a big fps boost. AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz. Ati 5770.

Interesting. I am also on Phenom II X4 (3.4 GHz) and with a different NVIDIA card (no ProcessAffinityMask in config) - and I have no FPS boost whatsoever. So clearly, FPS issues are graphics card related.

[janpitor]

Originally Posted by simast

Interesting. I am also on Phenom II X4 (3.4 GHz) and with a different NVIDIA card (no ProcessAffinityMask in config) - and I have no FPS boost whatsoever. So clearly, FPS issues are graphics card related.

It could mean you are already limited by graphics settings. I have to check when I come back. Because previously I could reduce the settings to minimum and FPS would´t be better. I hope this is improved and I will see an FPS difference between graphics settings.

[simast]

Originally Posted by janpitor

It could mean you are already limited by graphics settings. I have to check when I come back. Because previously I could reduce the settings to minimum and FPS would´t be better. I hope this is improved and I will see an FPS difference between graphics settings.

The thing is that Radeon 5770 is supposed to be worse than GeForce GTX 460.
See: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[Ailantd]

I have a quad core and I have not experienced any improvement.

[AKA_Tenn]

my 2600k uses all 4 cores, but all in all Clod uses only about 20% of my total cpu power, average about 8% while just flying, so all the tasks could run on one core, if the one core was fast enough... any lag u get will be videocard related with a fast cpu...

also its not the amount of memory the videocard has, its the SPEED of the memory and the SPEED of the GPU

[jibo]

yep the latency of memory access, btw having more than 1gig is still a good thing

[AKA_Tenn]

Originally Posted by jibo

yep the latency of memory access, btw having more than 1gig is still a good thing

what im trying to say is... if your card has less than 1gb of memory, its probably too slow in the first place... so only the speed matters...

[PotNoodles]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

I have a quad core and I have not experienced any improvement.

I have a quad core 17 930 factory clocked to 4.0Ghz, and see no improvement in the FPS.

[janpitor]

Originally Posted by simast

The thing is that Radeon 5770 is supposed to be worse than GeForce GTX 460.
See: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

I know, but both of you didn´t state what are your graphics settings. If he uses low graphics settings and you high, he could see more FPS due to better CPU utilisation, whereas you may already be graphically limited..then try to lower the settings. Just one possible cause of action. Of course I don´t say it is definitely this way.

[addman]

I asked Luthier directly about multicore support in the new graphics engine. He said 4 cores or more CPU's should see considerable improvement in FPS, dual cores will also see improvements just not as big as if you have 4+ cores. There is nothing in the patch notes about altering the conf.ini ProcessAffinity line and why should there be? It's a modern game engine, it's supposed to automatically detect how many cores are available and use them, I don't think ProcessAffinity does anything ATM.