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« on: March 19, 2009, 02:11:41 AM »
When you woke up in the morning, and later arrived at this thread, you didn't know what great news lay hidden within... My friends, I am glad to let you know, that TF2 has officially ... introduced MULTICORE support for the game.

The checkbox can be found here: Options->Video->Advanced

Have a nice day!
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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009, 02:41:08 AM »
And for those of us wanting the real information:

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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Added Multicore Rendering


This initial release is aimed at testing compatibility, so the option is OFF by default

To turn it on, go to the Options->Video->Advanced dialog, and check the "Multicore Rendering" option


Other Changes

Several performance improvements to decals and client bone/flex setup

A variety of alt-tab and mode switch fixes

Improvements to the way the engine initializes surround sound, fixing some specific hardware cases

Fixed a crash on exit in Vista 64

The crash on exit in Vista 64 was bugging me, so glad that's fixed!

Some pretty cool stuff there methinks!

Although...is that just multi-video core rendering? As in SLI/Crossfire (X2?) setups?
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« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009, 09:08:45 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009, 09:46:32 AM »
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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 10:32:07 AM »
Perhaps support for those new multicore graphic cards?
Using CPU cores for rendering doesn't really make sense.
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009, 10:35:23 AM »
Quote from: Teatime on March 19, 2009, 10:32:07 AM
Perhaps support for those new multicore graphic cards?
Using CPU cores for rendering doesn't really make sense.
SLI? Crossfire maybe?
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« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2009, 10:44:17 AM »
Am I mistaken or have been the first cards released with 2 GPU cores?
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« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2009, 10:46:52 AM »
Quote from: Teatime on March 19, 2009, 10:44:17 AM
Am I mistaken or have been the first cards released with 2 GPU cores?

I dunno, seems like someone is working on them.
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« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2009, 11:16:34 AM »
Quote from: Teatime on March 19, 2009, 10:32:07 AM
Perhaps support for those new multicore graphic cards?
Using CPU cores for rendering doesn't really make sense.

I believe that TF2 is more "multi-core" now than before - and that this is enabled by default (for physics etc). This comes from the porting of the L4D engine tweaks back into TF2. I say this as TF2 has got faster for me in recent updates - without me changing anything. Smiley

I think the multi-core graphic option is something different (yet to be made clear) - the support of dual GFX processors may be the right answer.
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« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2009, 11:32:13 AM »
There are Multicore GPUs around, I believe the GTX2xx series is already, but I'm not too firm on that

Nevertheless, IIRC rendering works such that the CPU processes the geometry (for movement and such), sends all the polygon mess to the GPU and then kindly asks to texture it (including visibility calculations and the likes).
Since todays G-Cards are basically way too fast for just texturing a scene, they mostly idle waiting for the CPU to come up with some more vertices, and can thus be used for things like physics (or PhysX, if you will).
Methinks this Multicore support actually enables CPU Multicore Geometry processing. (Which is, AFAIK, more difficult to parallelize then the texturing part, and thus only comes into the game at this late stage.)
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« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2009, 11:36:50 AM »
There. An efficient and believable answer Smiley
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« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2009, 11:55:42 AM »
Expecting "german efficiency" joke in 3... 2...
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« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2009, 11:58:36 AM »
Quote from: r007 on March 19, 2009, 11:55:42 AM
Expecting "german efficiency" joke in 3... 2...

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to resist the urge to make such a wisecrack? Cheesy
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« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2009, 12:42:57 PM »
Okay, tested it in game, doesn't seem to make much difference [computer says no] I used FRAPS and some benchmark I found on the steam forum...
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