Multithread Request

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Could we please have the AI separated out into its own thread, the graphics updating running in a separate thread, and ship movement in a separate thread? On my 4-core processor with 8 gigs of memory, this thing really runs slow as the game drags on. I believe it has to do with all of the ship movements. It runs 100% on one core, but one core only. It _really_ needs to make use of multiple cores. I understand it can't happen by release time, but an update a bit down the road would really make this much more playable and fun.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There was a discussion on this earlier.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

multithread support would not be part of an regular update but one for the two upcoming mini-expansions.

my guess is on the 3rd and i really wouldn't mind to even pay for a 4th expansion that does nothing else than upgrade the engine for better use of modern hardware e.g. multicore support ;)

<-- can we have a vote on this? maybe on the front page ;)

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

You can't just add a few lines of code and get multithreading in something this complicated. It's a partial engine rewrite.