Hey guys,

since I will be receiving my dualcore this week, I wanted to make a list of games that are known to support mulitple cores.

Anyone know of such a list??

Supreme Commander. Especially noticable on large battlefields with lots of units (according to other people)

so, lemme know if this is correct:

1: Dualcore enabled games will increase in fps when you actually have dualcore ( kind of no-brainer)

2: Through the drivers being multithreaded, preformance increases as well.

3: due to a dualcore, 1 core can be solely assigned to the game as where the other core can handle all the other crap running in the background, thus resulting in better fps ingame

I've read on anotehr forum, where I posted something similiar, that in order to get dualcore running correctly after upgrading from single core, you have to follow a few steps.

here's the link to the thread, might be a nice info regarding this for people on this board.

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186832

ya know what the worst part is?? I get to pick up my dualcore in the mail today after work, and this weekend I am away from home.

I'll be back on sunday somewhere, hopefully enough time to do the switch and relay my cables and all.
Cause I wanna clean up my case inside, put lots of wiring behing the motherboardplate, so.....may take a while.

will keep you guys posted.

What kind of issues do you mean?

Apart from the MicroSoft DualCore Fix (which as far as I have observed in various Forums can affect any Dual Core CPU) I haven't heard anything of a Timestamp sync error on the Core 2 Duo.

Overall recommendation found in many places is :
If the System is running up-to-spec performance and no problems noted - do not install the fix(es).
Seems not all machines are affected, some report only specific Applications/Games exhibiting problems, while other Games run perfect. Some even reported their Systems running fine with only isolated Troublemakers (Games) and witnessed a general instability after installing the Fixes.

For that reason, Task-Binding Utilities have been created to bind problematic Games' Tasks onto one core, which seems to do a good job on Games that are coded for single core anyway.

That 'should' be fixed by the MS Hotfix, but I haven't heard a clear line about that. People unaware of the potential Dual Core troubles usually have difficulties nailing down the cause of their Problems.

All that is valid only for WinXP, haven't looked into any Vista DualCore related info (which seems to have its very own performance Problems when exceeding 4 Cores, but that's still far from mainstream). Other reports about instability or sluggish System performance are too inconsistent to identify the exact cause.