64-bit does help with smoother framerates and whatnot if the software was made to take advantage of it right?PikaPichu
Not really. You might be looking at a + or - 1% performance difference, but chances are that if you are upgrading to a 64-bit proccessor, it was going to be of a faster speed than your older one. 64-bit proccessors just allow efficient use of 64-bit numbers - which most games never use since that kind of precision isnt needed.Â
Eep, now that I think about it, I hope I'm not confusing 64-bit support with mult-threaded support. That brings up another question... are there any games that take advantage of multi-core processors? I think Supreme Commander does. Are there any developers crazy enough to have offered both 64-bit and multi-core support in any of their games?PikaPichu
All games (even those a decade old) have multithreading support to some extent, so you'll get some kind of benefit from a multicore processor. Quake 1 uses something like 6 or 7 threads, but 90% of the work falls on just 1 of those.
Fortunately most games released since late 2005 have been better at using extra cores more efficiently. FEAR, Half Life 2, STALKER, Company of Heroes, etc. Supreme Commander has done it the best, but its harder to find a recent game that doesnt use multithreading decently than a game that does.
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