rFactor 2 (merged)

[Ramon van Rijn]

rFactor 2 is coming

 

[Dietmar]

Finally an application that benefits from Multi-Core CPUs?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I have no clue what that ment Twitter is not my thing i guess

 

[Simon Trendell]

If you have a Core 2 Duo or Quad Core or AMD Equivalent then this is very good news

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

In that case i am a happy camper

 

[Kevin Ascher]

If you have a Core 2 Duo or Quad Core or AMD Equivalent then this is very good news

I still don't understand that one but as I have a Quad Core, good news can never be bad, right arty2:

 

[Ryan Callan]

Well every game worth it's salt uses multi-core technology now, so this is a no-brainer.

Not much of a headline!

 

[Kyle Evers]

But I though that rFactor 1 always supported up to 2 threads?

 

[Richard Hamstead]

Nope, neither does GTR2, GTRE, Race, Race07 or pretty much any other sim on the market (I don't think iRacing does either)

 

[Gareth Hickling]

If you use +fullproc after the command line rF1 uses multi cores, At least two cores anyway. Im not sure about triple and quad cores tho.

iRacing uses all cores.

 

[Richard Hamstead]

Yes, that gives it permission to use both cores, but it doesn't use them efectively. The program itself needs to be programmed to use 2 cores to use them to their full potential.

 

[Gareth Hickling]

Im not sure how or why as im not a programmer, Just that it uses em Still you dont exactly need a monster processor to run the sim, 1 core is fine.

 

[Ramon van Rijn]

The good thing about multi-core support in rF2 will be that they could use a seperate core for complex tasks.
For example;
Core 1; main game running
Core 2; physics engine
This way they are totally independent to each other and can actually benefit.

The old multi-core support is just balancing the load over 2 cpu's which is no benefit on most systems.

The question will be if rF will effectively support 2, 4 or even the not yet released 8 cores.

 

[Yves Larose]

i'm no expert but i remember reading something that games could never use the full potential of the dual core technology since games only run one process, so in order for rFactor 2 to use the dual core to its full potential he would have to run 2 or more process, would that also mean that on a none dual core pc the game would actually run slower ? like i said i'm no expert

 

[Ryan Callan]

I don't think rFactor 2 will run effectively without a dual-core processor anyway. This is 2009 baby!

On the subject of having difficulty with the processes, Football Manager 2009 runs on both cores (not all the time though), but only has one process, fm.exe.

 

[Adam Vaughan]

FM 2009 rules

 

[Gareth Hickling]

FM 2009 rules Mo fo!!!!!!!!!!!!

OT: Yep the new 3D engine rocks!


OK back to rF2

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Improved driver swapping in rFactor 2

Did anybody picked up news if this super feature from rFactor is improved (debugged) in rFactor 2?

 

[Deleted member 133]

rFactor2: I don't think there will be a native 64-bit version.

rFactor2: I don't think there will be a native 64-bit version.

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[Deleted member 133]

rFactor2: @IronFly74 improved clutch/gear how?

rFactor2: @IronFly74 improved clutch/gear how?

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[Deleted member 133]

rFactor2: @Aristotelis I don't know anyone that has been able to look at OSX

rFactor2: @Aristotelis I don't know anyone that has been able to look at OSX

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