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Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 01:07

ViPeaX
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Hi,
if you only run -> 1 <- server, does renegade even use both cores?

-VipeaX

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249771 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 03:39

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You might see a small performace gain, but the renegade FDS was not programmed to utilize two or more CPU's, so it wont get the maximum benefit from them.

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249777 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 05:17

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My dual core opty 175 runs almost as well as my dual xeons did

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249780 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 05:49

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Just set your server to a specific core/processor, the FDS cannot take advantage of dual processors/cores.

The only tip for an advantage I can give to you is to set your server to one core and if you have a bot set it to the other core.

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249826 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 12:10

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That's all sound advice, I once mucked around, tying window's system processes to one core, and a game to the other, and not a lot happened, we're still waiting for proper dual core utilisation.

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249843 is a reply to message #249826]

Wed, 14 March 2007 13:40

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CarrierII wrote on Wed, 14 March 2007 14:10

The Windows system processes don't do a whole lot, as a matter of fact...

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249905 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 23:11

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I think my question is - how do you set things to a certain core?

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #249907 is a reply to message #249764]

Wed, 14 March 2007 23:59

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run taskmgr, go to the Processes tab, then right-click a process (in the case of the FDS, it's server.dat), and choose "Set Affinity". You can also get a bit more SFPS if you increase the priority of server.dat (if you have a slower server).

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #250664 is a reply to message #249764]

Mon, 19 March 2007 23:39

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That's pretty neat. Is it as useful as it seems?

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #250675 is a reply to message #250664]

Tue, 20 March 2007 01:08

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icedog90 wrote on Tue, 20 March 2007 07:39

That's pretty neat. Is it as useful as it seems?

It is if you want to e.g. play a game and do rendering at the same time Razz

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #251191 is a reply to message #249764]

Fri, 23 March 2007 00:37

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Dual Core is nice, but still nothing beats a real Dual CPU workstation in terms of smoothness Big Ups

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #251239 is a reply to message #251191]

Fri, 23 March 2007 06:27

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Dual core is nearly the same as Dual CPU... with 2 differences:
1) the normally 1 different cpu's are now placed on one package, so you dont need an expensive mobo and 2 cpu's
2) lower latencies between them.

On an AMD you could agree that memory acces on 2 single cores is a bit faster the 1 dualcore, but thats about it ...

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #251331 is a reply to message #249764]

Fri, 23 March 2007 16:55

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Don't dual core systems have to share things like CPU cache though? That's a downside unless they are reading each others memory values and not writing them.

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #251374 is a reply to message #249764]

Sat, 24 March 2007 03:42

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From the product description of my current procesor

Quote:

..with individually dedicated l2 caches..

(That's not exact, but the gist is there)
I don't think so light.

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Re: Renegade Servers & Dual Core [message #251376 is a reply to message #251331]

Sat, 24 March 2007 04:09

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light wrote on Sat, 24 March 2007 00:55

Don't dual core systems have to share things like CPU cache though? That's a downside unless they are reading each others memory values and not writing them.

If they did, they would make sure that they would not overwrite a part the other processor needs, but then it would be possible to share data between proccessors fast, so actually that would be a good thing.

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