Hellgiver Wrote:

diego Wrote:well not all games are optimized for multi-core processors right?
I don't know if torchlight is.

But would it cause one core to be completely stressed? I understand that almost no games are optimized for quad core, and most are best on dual core, and that this game is even supposedly perfectly playable on lower end computers, including single cores. Should that core be completely stressed? If it was that stressed (100%), shouldn't it be having more problems?

Joomla12 Wrote:Can't you set how many cores a program uses?

Hmmm, there might be. I'll see if I can find a reference or a program or something.

Hi, welcome to the reason i quit playing computer games after bashing console games and only playing PC games for the past 20+ years.

Alot of great games just play straight up poorly on multicore computers :(  Infact, Battlefield 2, the game i put in 1000+hours online significantly played worse and worse the faster my computer got :(  Going from a Pentium 4 to AMD X2 to CoreDuo to Core2Duo...each time the game introduce more lag, more loading time, less fps during high action times :(  Each new cpu also got the latest in video cards...which helped less as well :(

Now I say Playstation 3 for m3  :)  (or the wii with the wife :P )