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Gingerninjaperson wrote:

Someone told me (have no clue on the legitness of this) that this games engine is optimized for older computers, don't know why that would impact FPS on better ones though. I have an i5 3570k stock clock and a 650, and I usually get ~60fps.

learn_more wrote:

Gingerninjaperson wrote:

Someone told me (have no clue on the legitness of this) that this games engine is optimized for older computers, don't know why that would impact FPS on better ones though. I have an i5 3570k stock clock and a 650, and I usually get ~60fps.

it doesnt use the gpu for rendering so a good video card doesnt do anything.

VladVP wrote:

It does use MMX and/or SSE though, which on most, if not all, modern systems is contained in the GPU.

tin wrote:

Alright so... any actual fix for this?

learn_more wrote:

that would be a totally retarded implementation, as performance would degrade severely.

VladVP wrote:

And once again, you are full of excrement.
It's a common and well-known fact that most GPUs which are not from the 80's have a significantly better performance than CPUs. Both in terms of calculation speed (Both integer ops and flops), but also graphics calculations or read/write speed. That last thing is exactly what MMX and SSE is designed to deal with. How can performance "degrade severely" if the technology in question is moved to a platform which makes it operate faster?

learn_more wrote:

VladVP wrote:

And once again, you are full of excrement.
It's a common and well-known fact that most GPUs which are not from the 80's have a significantly better performance than CPUs. Both in terms of calculation speed (Both integer ops and flops), but also graphics calculations or read/write speed. That last thing is exactly what MMX and SSE is designed to deal with. How can performance "degrade severely" if the technology in question is moved to a platform which makes it operate faster?

do you know ANYTHING about pc architecture at all?

what is the processor executing a program?
the cpu
now imagine (lol) someone wanted mmx instructions to occur on the gpu
first, the cpu determines it's a gpu instruction
then it sends the instruction + data needing processing to the gpu over whatever the gpu is in, (so could be anything including pci) to the gpu
the gpu executes
the gpu sends the result back


would that be faster than the cpu handling the instruction itself?

not by a long shot.

mov rax, [src]
mov rbx, [dst]
shr rax, 48
shr rbx, 48
add rbx, rax
and rbx, FFFFh
shl rbx, 48
or rcx, rbx

mov rax, [src]
mov rbx, [dst]
shr rax, 32
shr rbx, 32
and rax, FFFFh
and rbx, FFFFh
add rbx, rax
and rbx, FFFFh
shl rbx, 32
or rcx, rbx

mov rax, [src]
mov rbx, [dst]
shr rax, 16
shr rbx, 16
and rax, FFFFh
and rbx, FFFFh
add rbx, rax
and rbx, FFFFh
shl rbx, 16
or rcx, rbx

mov rax, [src]
mov rbx, [dst]
and rax, FFFFh
and rbx, FFFFh
add rbx, rax
and rbx, FFFFh
or rcx, rbx

mov [dst], rcx

movq mm0, [src]
movq mm1, [dst]
paddw mm0, mm1
movq [dst], mm0