Is Dayz SA multi-thread?

[Irish. 4886]

I am wondering if I would see an increase in performance on my PC from a dual core 3.0ghz to a quad core 3.0ghz?

 

From what I have gathered I will only see gains if Dayz SA is multi-thread capable and not single thread only.. ?

 

Does anyone know the answer to this..  :huh:

Edited March 12, 2014 by lrish

[guppy22143 1081]

If you want a performance increase, upgrade your video card and GPU. :D

[Irish. 4886]

If you want a performance increase, upgrade your video card and GPU. :D

 

That is somewhat incorrect from what I have learned, Guppy.. a GPU upgrade is not as good for Arma series games as a CPU upgrade, being as its so heavy on CPU and light on GPU usage.

 

I have a 550ti and the game looks beautiful @ 50-60+fps. Its the computing Im concerned about as my PC's bottleneck is most certainly my CPU - Core2Duo 3.0ghz

 

 

Besides what I really want to know is if this game is a multi-thread application or single. ;)

Edited March 12, 2014 by lrish

[TIC 1050]

It is currently planned for early 2014.

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/156129-confirmed-upcoming-features-for-dayz/

[Irish. 4886]

It is currently planned for early 2014.

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/156129-confirmed-upcoming-features-for-dayz/

 

Thank you, but that is in regards to the servers.. not individual users PC's, I believe.

 

Thank you, though :)

Edited March 12, 2014 by lrish

[TIC 1050]

Thank you, but that is in regards to the servers.. not individual users PC's, I believe.

 

Thank you, though :)

 

Might want to rephrase your thread title next time :)

[Irish. 4886]

Might want to rephrase your thread title next time :)

 

It makes perfect sense for the people who know what I am talking about. (<--not trying to be cheeky :blush:  ) 

 

Thats why I stated in the first line its about my PC, not servers or hosting. :)

Edited March 12, 2014 by lrish

[nuggit 246]

Hi Irish

 

since you haven't had much luck here, I thought I would try and lend my hand!

 

Lately I have been monitoring my cpu/gpu/ram usage throughout my dayz playtime.

 

Usage -

 

GPU    - 98%, most of the time

CPU 1 - 50-90% usage

CPU 2 - 25-60% usage

CPU 3 - 10-20% usage

CPU 4 - 10-20% usage

 

So it does use all your cpu, just not efficiently all the time. I have found though, it does depend on in game individual settings to determine whether you use more cpu/gpu usage and how much load is put on. 

 

I am unsure whether there would be a significant gain from jumping to a quad from a duo! I have my doubts, I would think clock speed would yield greater benefits than more cpu's. This I cannot confirm personally, Sorry Irish.

 

Hope that helps though :)

[byrgesen 1341]

Ive dug up some old thread on the subject (Arma II DayZ Mod), but im not sure how much still applies to the SA.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/93148-does-dayz-utilize-multiple-cores-or-multithreading/

 

Heres some about Arma III:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?129609-Arma-3-amp-amp-Multithreading

 

Quote from Dwarden (BI developer):

please read dev blog about multicore and it was covered numerous times by us in this forum (search ftw) ...

ARMA 2: OA and TOH can use multicore fine (i think up to 32 cores), please realize that coding multithreaded application means You can't use 100% all cores and it scales down with each new core
atm. gain over 6 native cores is neglible

 

And the mentioned Devblog:

http://www.bistudio.com/english/company/developers-blog/91-real-virtuality-going-multicore

 

Heres some more specific to the SA.

http://es.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1sena2/sa_multithread_client_optimization/

 

Although it doesnt really give a "black/white" answer and they also talk alot about the multicore, not only multithreading, i think its safe to assume, what applies to Arma II/III and TOH, also applies to DayZ, when it comes to the engine utilizing hardware.

 

 

EDIT:
Want to add, the significant gain in going from an older dual core to a new quad core, is that the single cores are faster, by them selves.
Thats why you get a performance boost going to the newer i5 / i7, even though it doesnt utilize all the cores equally, one single core is still faster then pretty much any older dual core CPU's.

Edited March 12, 2014 by Byrgesen

[Guest]

If you want a performance increase, upgrade your video card and GPU. :D

So buy a new video card and put a even newer GPU on it? :)

Had a C2D @ 3.0ghz, gained like 20 fps by adding a Xeon e1230v3

[Irish. 4886]

Thanks very much for the help guys.. I had searched and found none of that info :) 

 

Answered my questions perfectly! 

[Leo Balzac 190]

Irish, I didn't see this thread until now. The answer: Yes. Day late, dollar short, I know.