Dual core?

It used to have a problem running on dual core machines apparently. I cant confirm that not having ever tried to run it on one, but it was apparently fixed before v 1.17. The work round from before the fix was to only use one of the processors.

So as far as I am aware it does suport dual core but realy dosent require that poweful a computer.

I have a P4 1.6 with 256mb and my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE, which as I dimly recall I purchased last century, the only upgrade I've done since is added a bigger hard drive. And I've never experience any of the crashes that used to be reported on this forum with alarming regularity.

I have been using a Dual Core Gateway 3.0ghz for over a year and it has no problem running any software.

I believe to convert SE5 to use the Dual Core features would involve Aaron changing to a different compiler to develop the game and that could take some time.

Changing to a different compiler? Well, to be honest, it isn't the compiler who makes a program using multiple threads (and thus able to use more then 1 core), it is the programmer.

Of course, multithreading isn't very easy, you've to consider the additional problems like mutual lockout, race conditions or other nasty things. But it isn't that hard. I hope that one day, SE V will be fully multithreaded, so that it can use a multicore machine to it's full potential.

Why I want SE V to become multithreaded? Well, first there is the AI. One can improve it, but that will take more computing time if you plan on making it much better (there are endless of options in a game, a good AI will cover some of them. The more it covers, the better (in theory) the AI will become). More computing time means more waiting when a you clicked on the end turn button. And if there is something that I really dislike, then it is waiting.

Second, there is the waiting issue. I like to play in huge galaxies with hordes of enemy empires. That all take time, and like I said a bit above, I don't like waiting.

Thirth, next generation cpu's will add more cores and not really go much faster cores (not like in the "old days", going from 1GHz to 3.6GHz processors in a few years). More cores can only be utilized when the software that runs on it can actually run on more then 1 core.

Annyway, we'll see where Aaron will take SE V.

there's a new line:

Support Multithreading := FALSE

I've tried setting it to true, but haven't seen anything special in my Dual core's performance. Still, I think this shows that this on on the MM radar. I'd bet we'll see it working in a later patch...

MM is indeed working on multithreading. He's been testing elements of it for about a month now, but going from a single thread to multi threads is a decent amount of work. I'm sure it will be supported by v1.40, though.

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Dual core support coming i sure hope so i to like large 255 start maps with 25-30 empires and on my 1800+ it can take 15-20 to end of turn once the empires have started to spread out and attack each other.
granted it will not help me now but my next Box will be a dual or quad core2quad

I recently upgraded to a dual core motherboard and an NVIDIA 6800. Only two games won't run on my new setup: M&M8 and SE5. When I say "won't run" that's what I mean. With SE5 I can get to the very first screen and any choice after that brings up a black screen. Sure hope Aaron looks at these posts.

My machine is dual core, and SEV runs fine.... I know it doesn't use the Dual core as it is, but it shouldn't keep you fron playing

I would drop Aeron an e-mail at just to make sure if you are having trouble with a particular set up. After all dual core is going to be an increasing issue even if you dont need a pc that powerful to run the game.

I got my new system Monday, an e6600 with an eVGA 7900GS KO.

SEV 1.25 with Balance Mod are running great.

Delightfully smooth.

Congrats on your new system..... =)

Set the affinity of SE5.exe to only one core. This has fixed almost all issues with multicore systems so far.

So... Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Processes -> SE5.exe -> Set Affinity...

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Aaron has asked for feed back from people running Dual Core systems.

Did you install AMD's dual core processor driver?

Well, I've never had any issues on my overclocked dual core rig and I've been running the game since the demo. I did have the AMD dual core CPU driver installed, so no messing around with affinity settings required. Too bad the game does not use both cores (yet?) to speed things up.

System specs:
CPU: AMD 4400+ @ 2.375GHz
Motherboard: 939 SLI based
Graphics: 7800GTX 256MB
Memory: 2 x 1GB DDR @ 415MHz
Sound: Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
OS: Windows XP SP2

runs great on my core2duo with vista home premium, but using both cores would be better ofcourse.

Runs fine on my dual core with hyper threading, xp mce

I have a 2.5Ghz Athlon X2 with a Geforce 8800GTS 640MB and a 1.83GZ Core Duo with a ATI x1400 64MB and both computers run SE5 almost flawlessly. The Athlon has this problem where the graphics jump now and then and its obviously not a framerate issue but it doesn't really get in the way of the game.

Intel Core2Duo 2.1Ghz, 2Gb Ram, GeForce 8800GTX, 10000rpm SATA HD ... No crashes at all since SE:V release!