Hi madpaddy,
you´re just welcome.
I got this from Lar, but i´m certainly not spoiling any company secrets when i post this here:
streams a lot, really a lot, and it tries to do a lot of it in the backgroud (i.e. another thread). Single core performance is therefore below par which is why we put dual core on the box...
The reason i had asked was quite a heated discussion in the German forums early after release concerning whether a users presumably AMD single core was matching the game requirements, as it showed lags in abovementioned streaming performance.
Add. controversy was spawned by reports from some "single corers" running the game successfully.
In the end we settled around this one:
- Divinity 2 really being one of the still rare games not only supporting multi-core as a suppemental but in fact being dependent on it
- the mentioned AMD single core was insufficient, hence the experienced streaming issues
- other reports stemmed from users with Pentium 4s. Those compensated due to bringing along "Hyper-Threading", a kind of "emulated multi-core functionality". Still they had to be decently clocked (>> 3GHz)
Sounds plausible to me.
Kind Regards,
Ragon
