BFBC2 better with i7 Hyperthread on ?

[bmwmaster]

Hi,

hast anyone tested if BFBC2 is running better with HT on ?

Im running it now with my i7 950 @ 4 x 4,4 Ghz and HT is off.
It runns great but im asking me if i should turn HT on.

Then i could run the CPU @ 4 Ghz.
Has anyone tried what HT brings in BFBC2 ?

GPUs are 2 x 6950 modded to 6970.
Playing @ 2560x1600 Resolution.

 

[overclocking101]

yes it does, it is multi threaded the more cores the better in bfbc2

 

[ctrain]

it might try to offload more, but it seems that ultimately, 4 cores is where the most apparent scaling ends. that is to say, past that point there's almost zilch.

 

[Flibolito]

Yup, mine uses about 6 of the 8 "cores" on my i7 between 40-70% = Butter. But yeah on my q9550 it runs just as well.

 

[RejZoR]

Makes me wonder why would anyone disable HT in the first place (except if you're going for the highest clock of physical cores).

 

[bmwmaster]

Heah highest clock was the reason for disabling cause i changed from Q9550@4,2 Ghz i wanted more clock.

Now i enabled HT and had to clocked back to 4 Ghz, after testing and benching BFBC2 i think its the better setting 400 Mhz less clock and HT on.

The Game doesn't profit from the higher clock but in some cases runs smother with HT on.

 

[Bo$$]

good for you, glad you awnsered your own question

 

[bmwmaster]

After some people said that HT on is better, i tested and proved that.

 

[RejZoR]

Also, 4GHz with HT enabled is a pretty respectable clock and if you think taht each 4GHz core provides 2 threads, that's pretty good.

 

[wolf]

well BC2 uses ~65% of my CPU constantly (6 core AMD @ 3.8ghz), and there is activity on all cores, so I say the more CPU you can throw at BC2 the better. ie enable HT and settle for 4 - 4.2ghz imo.

 

[pabloottawa]

How do all you guys find out if its using hyper threading??? Where can you see this and also, where can you enable/disable it?

 

[ShogoXT]

Makes me wonder why would anyone disable HT in the first place (except if you're going for the highest clock of physical cores).

I always have hyperthreading off. Sure it handles threaded tasks better but since most apps dont use more than 4 (most). You get each core doing 100% instead of being split up on other tasks. Sometimes cores can go unused while one of the other ones takes on 2. (I have no proof of this but i have ran everything very well with it off.)

 

[T3kl0rd]

How do all you guys find out if its using hyper threading??? Where can you see this and also, where can you enable/disable it?

Alt-Tab out of the game and look at core usage in Task Manager. Enable HT in the BIOS unless you have software that can do that in your OS.

I never OC unless the game needs it to stay @ 60 FPS. When I do OC my GPU and CPU, I don't see much difference and I like the GPU and CPU clocks downscaling when idle, so I don't have them running OC'ed often.

 

[n-ster]

I always have hyperthreading off. Sure it handles threaded tasks better but since most apps dont use more than 4 (most). You get each core doing 100% instead of being split up on other tasks. Sometimes cores can go unused while one of the other ones takes on 2. (I have no proof of this but i have ran everything very well with it off.)

I believe it first uses the different cores before adding a 2nd thread to each core

 

[dnottis]

This is what BF BC2 looks like with HT on @ 4.0Ghz




And with 4 cores @ 4.2Ghz we can see hitting 100% at times. I'd rather have 8 threads that aren't maxed than 4 that are.

 

[deathvirus_me]

But physically its still 4 cores running 8 threads .. unless BFBC2 can exclusively benefit from HT i don't think u'd notice a great increase in performance .. in such cases a higher clocked 4 core proccy should be better than a lower clocked HT enabled quad with 8 threads .. particularly since BFBC2 gains a respectable amount with higher clocked cores ..

 

[dnottis]

But physically its still 4 cores running 8 threads .. unless BFBC2 can exclusively benefit from HT i don't think u'd notice a great increase in performance .. in such cases a higher clocked 4 core proccy should be better than a lower clocked HT enabled quad with 8 threads .. particularly since BFBC2 gains a respectable amount with higher clocked cores ..

I'm trying to find the article where the developer said BF BC2 can use up to 8 threads. The game does feel smoother with HT on for me. But I just ordered a 2500k sandy bridge.

I guess you missed my point entirely though - my graphs show 4.2 Ghz tapped out at 100% and I got some stutter. However, at 4.0 with HT on it never maxed and never stuttered. It is smoother with hyper threading on, clearly 8 threads are being used. I think the days of the "higher clocked, lesser cores" argument is being tested and from the folks here, there is definitely a smoother game play experience with HT enabled.

Many people are holding on to the old theories... about performance, cores in gaming vs less higher clocked cores and even 60hz vs 120hz. Its time to let them go, there are big differences even if they aren't measurable. More cores / threads are better, current Hyperthreading makes the gaming experience smoother, there is a huge difference going from a 60 Hz (headache machine) monitor to 120Hz (I'll never go back, screw vsync its awful!!). All the arguments people used to avoid upgrading are just flat out wrong now.

 

[CDdude55]

BC2 is one of the games that does utilize HT and multi-core CPU's, so enabling HT should give you a nice performance boost.

 

[deathvirus_me]

I'm trying to find the article where the developer said BF BC2 can use up to 8 threads. The game does feel smoother with HT on for me. But I just ordered a 2500k sandy bridge.

I guess you missed my point entirely though - my graphs show 4.2 Ghz tapped out at 100% and I got some stutter. However, at 4.0 with HT on it never maxed and never stuttered. It is smoother with hyper threading on, clearly 8 threads are being used. I think the days of the "higher clocked, lesser cores" argument is being tested and from the folks here, there is definitely a smoother game play experience with HT enabled.

Many people are holding on to the old theories... about performance, cores in gaming vs less higher clocked cores and even 60hz vs 120hz. Its time to let them go, there are big differences even if they aren't measurable. More cores / threads are better, current Hyperthreading makes the gaming experience smoother, there is a huge difference going from a 60 Hz (headache machine) monitor to 120Hz (I'll never go back, screw vsync its awful!!). All the arguments people used to avoid upgrading are just flat out wrong now.

eer i dont think u read my post correctly .. i think i mentioned that if BFBC2 is HT aware then it'll perform better with HT .. otherwise not .. i kept it simple .. so if somewhere in the readme of by the devs directly u get the info that BFBC2 is HT aware then u should always play with HT enabled .. its that simple ..

 

[TheMailMan78]

You guys wanna see a game that uses all cores/threads then just download Tomb Raider:Anniversary. It uses all 6 of my cores at 100%.