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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis
Umm, wrong! IL-2 is heavily CPU locked and runs faster on my sxi-year-old FX-55 than it does on my new Core i5-750.
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I bind the IL2 process to a single core and it works very well, even with a slower clock speed. If I don't it's a sloth because the OS tries to balance the load by switching it among the four cores. That's high overhead and the game runs like a sloth getting switched like that. But's that true of any monolithic CPU-eating process you run.
Your mileage may vary, of course, the FX-55 is a 64-bit AMD that had the big bandwidth between CPU and RAM (HyperTransport, I believe) that shivered Intel's timbers for a while. The Pentium 4 is a dog by comparison. And your FX-55 is two years younger than his Pentium.
FX-55: October 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors
Intel Pentium4 520: August, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors
So what you said is true in some situations, and what I said was not true in some situations. So I'll narrow it down to cases like the original poster.
Here are some old CPU throughput benchmarks:
Pentium 4 630, 3.0 GHz:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/...221-05653.html
Xeon 3040 1.86 GHz:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/...114-08106.html
Yes, it's two sets of test runs going on simultaneously. But if you run only 1 on the dual-core box, you have at least the same amount of throughput available (half of 39.7), plus a second core to do all the OS stuff.