bit-tech.net — Valve is adding multi-core processor support to Half-Life 2's Source engine in time for the release of Kentsfield. We travelled to Seattle to talk to Gabe Newell and his team about what this will mean for gamers and hardware geeks, as well as examining a new benchmark tool created to show off what can be done.
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derrekitoNov 2, 2006
YAY I get to wait another 10 years before I get Direct X 10 on Linux.
derrekitoNov 2, 2006
Do we know whether or not for suer?
fgsfdsNov 2, 2006
@spyrochaete: If DX10 can't run on XP, then why has it's entire development cycle been on XP? If it requires hardware calls, then why can't the drivers - the closest level of software to hardware - be updated to support such calls?If that's what you believe, you've swallowed the line of bulls**t they fed you.
davymacNov 2, 2006
Oh Glorious Day.. I just ordered a Mac Pro 2.66ghz with an ATI X1900XT (should be arriving 11/13) and have an accellero x2 waiting for it to overclock the card.. Sadly.. I CANT WAIT to run windows on my Mac, haha... 4 core glory.. here I come...
rtiniNov 2, 2006
It will run great on an iMac Core Duo, since that uses an ATI x1600. You'll want at least 1GB of RAM though.It runs great on a MacBook Pro too, having the same x1600 card. The 15.4" MacBook Pros shipped with the x1600 underclocked all the way down to 300/300 (stock is 423/445 core/mem), until the recent Core 2 Duo update, so the 15.4" Core Duo MacBook Pros won't be nearly as good as the Core 2 Duo updated ones.
vashavocNov 2, 2006
maybe css will actually run now. wouldnt that be grand.
linkinpark342Nov 3, 2006
Disclaimer: might not be the best source of information as i have not sources. the following is from personal experience.I think this is two different types of stuttering we are talking about. kcpwnsgman and Shrade i think are talking about FPS lag - when the settings are too high for your w34k computer.Dual core boxes can suffer from that too but the major one that the others are talking about is when we know for a fact the current settings run fine (i.e. i can get 90-100 fps normally) but some issue in the driver/lack there of causes there to be _massive_ spikes where you would run for maybe 2 seconds before it froze, then run for another two, then freeze.
mxclNov 3, 2006
Digg is such a tabloid nowadays, what did I get dugg down for? Did I ridicule some fanboy's penis size or something?I still read Digg, but some of the other readers are ****.
general13Nov 3, 2006
@krinkleNetcode can only be cleaned up and optimized so much, because eventually you'll just be stuck with plain old lag. The latency over a WAN (such as the Internet) is *way* higher than data running across the system bus. I for one think it's great that they're sticking in dual-core support: it's the "Wave of the Future(tm)", methinks.