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In today’s article we’re continuing to take a look at Battlefield 2142’s performance with various hardware components; in Part 1 we rounded up a variety of high-end cards with the GeForce 7950 GX2 and Radeon X1950 XTX coming out on top, and now we’re looking at Battlefield 2142’s performance with the latest CPUs from AMD and Intel.
Since Battlefield 2142 is based on the same game engine as its predecessor, Battlefield 2, BF2142 has not been programmed to take advantage of multi-threading. This means that the second core found in the latest dual-core CPUs sits unused in Battlefield 2142. In our series of game engine interviews last month, we asked DICE senior graphics programmer Marko Kylmamaa a couple of questions about this and other topics...
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In today’s article we’re continuing to take a look at Battlefield 2142’s performance with various hardware components; in Part 1 we rounded up a variety of high-end cards with the GeForce 7950 GX2 and Radeon X1950 XTX coming out on top, and now we’re looking at Battlefield 2142’s performance with the latest CPUs from AMD and Intel.
Since Battlefield 2142 is based on the same game engine as its predecessor, Battlefield 2, BF2142 has not been programmed to take advantage of multi-threading. This means that the second core found in the latest dual-core CPUs sits unused in Battlefield 2142. In our series of game engine interviews last month, we asked DICE senior graphics programmer Marko Kylmamaa a couple of questions about this and other topics...
click the link for full article.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bat … _shootout/