Doug97 Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 This new A10 sim that's eventually coming out (I have faith) ... will it support multicore processors? What DirectX will it support? I'm about to upgrade to: Athlon 240 4GB RAM HD3850 Windows 7 Thus I would consider buying it if it can run at a decent FPS on my system.
joey45 Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 BS is already multicore, probaly DX0, at a guess. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
HungaroJET Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 BS is already multicore, probaly DX0, at a guess. DX0 ? FINE :megalol: Atop the midnight tarmac, a metal beast awaits. To be flown below the radar, to bring the enemy his fate. HAVE A BANDIT DAY ! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), American Architect, Author, Designer, Inventor, and Futurist
joey45 Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 (edited) oops . DX9.. with the 1.0.1 [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,......] patchit's now multicore. I think I heard about a 64bit thingy for BS. So whatever is in BS would be for the Hog. Edited October 4, 2009 by joey45 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
-Bazong- Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 Is it multicore after the patch!? :huh: I find that hard to believe. I never heard any mention of it (and I even read the entire patch readme)...
EtherealN Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 Joey, it's not multithreaded. What the patch has done with respect for multicore is that the appliucation now default to all-core affinity - that is, it now does what we used to use DCSmax for. The application itself is not "multicore" though. That would require a massive rewrite of major parts of the application. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
sobek Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 Is it multicore after the patch!? :huh: I find that hard to believe. I never heard any mention of it (and I even read the entire patch readme)... No it is not natively multithreaded, when run under dx10, the OS can distribute load between the 2 cores better than under dx9 and therefore there is a FPS boost in dx10 OSs, but that does not make it multithreaded. What did happen is that the dx10 feature can now be used without a separate utility just with the game alone. But again, the games is not multithreaded and most likely will not be after the A-10. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
joey45 Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 It's sort of multicore though. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
sobek Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 It's sort of multicore though. Courtesy of DX10. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
EtherealN Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 It's not any more multicore now than it was before. The only thing that changed in this respect is that it will automatically set it's affinity. That's it. That's everything that changed in that area. EDIT: Hahah sobek, we need to stop posting on top of each other. :P [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
Arclight Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 You're on top of each other when you're posting?! :disgust: Sorry, couldn't resist. :D [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] DCS A-10C: putting the 'art' into 'warthog'. (yes, corny. Sorry.)
joey45 Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 whey too much information... The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
sobek Posted October 4, 2009 Posted October 4, 2009 You're on top of each other when you're posting?! I'm not even on top of myself. :D Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Doug97 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Posted October 6, 2009 OK, DX10 ... will the A10 sim support DX10.1?
sinelnic Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 I have total certainty in doubting that the DCS engine uses the DX10 api, and can affirm conclusively that it will be a total surprise if it used it for the A-10 module. Westinghouse W-600 refrigerator - Corona six-pack - Marlboro reds - Patience by Girlfriend "Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." (Dr. A. R. Dykes - British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976)
sobek Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 OK, DX10 ... will the A10 sim support DX10.1? AFAIK not, but it will nevertheless benefit from being run in a DX10 OS, due to the multicore load distribution optimisation of DX10. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
Doug97 Posted October 7, 2009 Author Posted October 7, 2009 AFAIK not, but it will nevertheless benefit from being run in a DX10 OS, due to the multicore load distribution optimisation of DX10. ?? Not sure what you mean. If the OS is better at utilising multicores, e.g. Windows 7, then fine. But if the program doesn't actually use DX10 then how does the "multicore load distribution optimisation of DX10" make any difference? I have total certainty in doubting that the DCS engine uses the DX10 api, and can affirm conclusively that it will be a total surprise if it used it for the A-10 module. So far my conclusion is that the A10 sim will not support multicore, nor will it utilise DX10.
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