Niborius on 8/5/2018 at 09:26
Hi everyone,
I read that Dromed only uses a single core on the CPU (is this still true for Newdark?).
Right now I have an i5 with 4 cores, each running on 3,4ghz.
Does this mean that if I'm going to get an 8 (physical) core CPU next year, with each core running on 2,2ghz, that it will run slower, especially when portalizing?
Niborius on 9/5/2018 at 08:33
Ahh I see. Thanks for the info.
As I'm dromedding a lot I will change my plan and have a look at one of these :)
Unna Oertdottir on 9/5/2018 at 08:55
My recommendation is to get a pre-owned 4790k/4770k or a good Xeon workstation for DromEd. If you're luky, you can save a lot of money.
john9818a on 11/5/2018 at 10:21
There is a difference between slower and slow by 1998-2000 standards. I wouldn't really think of any of today's PCs as being slow. It all depends on how large of a mission you are trying to portalize. My largest missions took about 1-2 minutes on my quad core running at 2.4 GHz compared to my first mission taking 30 minutes on a Pentium II.
Yandros on 11/5/2018 at 10:28
Exactly. Unless you are literally getting a new PC exclusively for Thief, I would go ahead and get however many cores makes you happy since it makes a difference in about all other tasks and programs. While theoretically what's being discussed here could be true, I can't imagine it really makes a big difference. I have a 4-year old quad core PC and Dromed is still blazingly fast in terms of portalization and ObjCast lighting, compared to days of yore on my old single core XP machine.
john9818a on 14/5/2018 at 23:57
I would be spoiled if I had a PC exclusively for Thief. :D Anyway we still have area brushes to give more immediate results in a specific area. :) I wonder if we could establish some benchmarks for portalization.
Niborius on 17/5/2018 at 10:45
I bought the i7 8700k, cooled it pretty well too. In Dromed, I compared some processing/portalization times and I'm getting about a 40% increase in times. Which is exactly what you get when you compare both CPU's in that list Unna Oertdottir posted.
@Yandros, nah not getting it exclusively for Thief hehe, but it's sure cool to have faster processing times! I needed a new CPU for video editing as well and gaming.
