Multi-Core Rendering?

Locklear

<div class="IPBDescription">:O</div><img src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc111/c0devero/2012-08-22_00003.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

Whaaaaaaat?

(forgive me if there's already been a thread)

weezl

Rendering is one thing. The game logic happening to create/calculate what to render is another. This is what's slowing the game (from what I understand).

On another topic, what does the "reflections" setting effect? Or is unused so far?

Zeikko

This setting has been in the game for ages. Not in the menu though.
Run the profiler with this setting on and off and you'll see how big difference it makes. :D

elmo9000

r_mt true

It has been there for ages

Imbalanxd

So what's the consensus? On or off for better performance? I remember L4D2 suffering a major performance hit when enabling multicore.

NurEinMensch

My guess is having it on speeds up rendering in general but you may get increased input lag because there's no guarantee when a certain thread can access a given resource.

Dictator93

<!--quoteo(post=1965899:date=Aug 22 2012, 12:19 PM:name=weezl)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (weezl @ Aug 22 2012, 12:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1965899"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Rendering is one thing. The game logic happening to create/calculate what to render is another. This is what's slowing the game (from what I understand).

On another topic, what does the "reflections" setting effect? Or is unused so far?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Reflections are cube map reflections for objects. They are made by setting probes through out a map and bait switching em often to fake reflections.

Apparently these probes and reflections have been added to docking, but I have yet to notice them for some reason.

ScardyBob

On

Disabling it just throws all the rendering stuff on the same bottlenecked thread running the game logic.

Nordic

How many threads will it use?

Shaker

about a million

ScardyBob

<!--quoteo(post=1965932:date=Aug 22 2012, 01:23 PM:name=james888)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (james888 @ Aug 22 2012, 01:23 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1965932"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->How many threads will it use?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Only one afaik.

Nordic

<!--quoteo(post=1966005:date=Aug 22 2012, 06:41 PM:name=ScardyBob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ScardyBob @ Aug 22 2012, 06:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1966005"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Only one afaik.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thanks. That is what I thought. I just disabled 2 of my cores so I could get another .2ghz overclock. Now at 4.7ghz on two cores. Did I see a gain? No, but I did not see a loss either. Super pi showed improvements but this is a topic for another thread.

Squeal_Like_A_Pig

<!--quoteo(post=1965921:date=Aug 22 2012, 07:01 PM:name=Dictator93)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dictator93 @ Aug 22 2012, 07:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1965921"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Reflections are cube map reflections for objects. They are made by setting probes through out a map and bait switching em often to fake reflections.

Apparently these probes and reflections have been added to docking, but I have yet to notice them for some reason.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, correct. The reflection really looks nice and adds a lot, especially on the cleaner, shinier looking maps. It was temporarily disabled, though, due to some concern that it was causing some graphic bugs for some people, but we are hoping to re enable them for 217 (though defaulted to off, as there can be a significant performance hit for some systems)

--Cory

elmo9000

Im pretty sure that multicore rendering is defaulted to true, so if you didnt turn it off from the console, you have always had it on anyways.