Doc. Caliban Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 yeah! you're right! i did not mean, in any moment, that i'm not happy. black shark is definitely a kick ass sim. i'm just a little bit worried by the fact that some settings can't be on "high" for me... :( I didn't mean to imply that you didn't appreciate it. :-) But yes, the CPU limitation is a bit of an anachronism these days. I had no intention of over-clocking my CPU, but BS changed that. [ Asus Rampage II Extreme | Intel i7 920 @ 3.6GHz| 12GB DDR3 | 3-Way SLI (3x GTX280OC 1GB) | 300GB Raptor | SupremeFX X-Fi 7.1 audio | 1,200W Thermaltake Toughpower PSU | 30" LCD @ 2560x1600 | Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar | TrackIR 5 | CoolerMaster HFC 332 case ]
sweinhart3 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Posted September 13, 2009 Im starting to drool. http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3635 Intel i7 990X, 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470 x2 SLI, Win 7 x64 http://picasaweb.google.com/sweinhart
sweinhart3 Posted September 13, 2009 Author Posted September 13, 2009 (edited) Well, this is probably nowhere near accurate but I am running a standard clocked I7 920 and my G15 LCD tells me that I am running at about 20% CPU utilization in BS. From what I can tell, Vista 64 can run 8 threads on the I7, so even if BS is running multiple threads across the cores, it my still be CPU bound on a single thread. So everything is waiting on a single thread. I've seen this happen on enterprise applications on UNIX boxes running many virtual processors. One day I may actually get around to setting up some perfmons and testing this hypothesis, but for now the sim is very playable for me and it isn't an issue. ;) Cheers, Pogo That is correct. Even with DCS Max that doesnt change the fact that DCS is not multi threaded to take advantage of multiple cores. Changing the affinity just tells the cpu to spread the resources around so that 1 core isnt running DCS and background duties. The new i5 processors might be really good with this sim cause they can take cores that are not utilized and shut them down so that the 1 or 2 free cores can dynamically overclock. 99% of the time I get very playable frame rates. The worst I had actually only happened once while trying to land at an airfield after the last mission in Deployment campaign. That one time my frame rates dropped so far it was difficult to control the chopper. Edited September 13, 2009 by sweinhart3 Intel i7 990X, 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470 x2 SLI, Win 7 x64 http://picasaweb.google.com/sweinhart
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