Planning to buy NFS Hot Pursuit for your Quad Core CPU? Bad idea!

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit was released today. Considering that one third of all Steam-users (Hardwaresurvey) occupy Quad Core CPUs it seems quite bold that Hot Pursuit doesn't support them well enough. Game crashes to Desktop long before the action packed pursuits begin.

Let's hope, Hot Pursuit players and Steam users are two different folks of players! And btw: It doesnt matter, whether you use AMD or Intel. Check the story! True Thing!

[Quagmire]

Wait a second....this is out on PC?

[Leafhopper]

Just like almost every other NFS.

[esperanza]

it is, playing it =)

[ColdAssassin]

You can make the game only use 2 cores with task manager

[Sarcasm]

Bleh I hate when developers do this. This doesn't bother me as much because I'm waiting for GT5. But why cant they make games that utilize quad cores properly? Starcraft 2 being the biggest disappointment to me only supporting 2 cores. I only get 60%-70% of the frame rate I should have been able to get and RTS's are supposed to be CPU heavy.

Yes I do realize most people have dual cores, but it's the end of 2010, most quad core CPUs can be had for very cheap and it's a growing market.

[Thecraft1989]

I have six cores and 12 threads quad cores are old now.

[Sarcasm]

That's great, power to you. But guess what? Few games are going to take advantage of that. If they are barely supporting quad cores, then very likely they aren't going to give a damn about hexa cores for a long time.

And yes "quad cores are old now" but it's more than enough for anything at the moment.

Eventually though chipset makers can't just keep cramming more cores into their processors. They need to make better technology to make the CPU cores themselves faster.

[Thecraft1989]

lol people can't take a joke

Sarcasm I completely agree with you getting faster cores is lot more important than more cores but Its going to be hard The fastest cpu is only achieved by Ln2 so unless we make them need less heat or some kind of Ln2 cooling system AMD and intel are just going to keep ongoing with adding more cores.

[dirthurts]

You're extra cores are money in the wind sir.
dual core is plenty, quad core is excessive, 6 is a waste. You sacrifice clock speed for all those extra cores, so you probably lost performance there.

[GlowingPotato]

Wrong! parallel computing is the new "speed". that is the future for software developments. Thats
why dev's are using GPU for more and more features besides graphics processing.

But... you are right in one thing. today a six core CPU is really a waste if u are not using it to render
static images. most games and softs isn't capable to handle six or more cores. except softs that is
written on CUDA, but they use the GPU (a lot of cores) and not CPU.

[El_Colombiano]

Speed vs Cores is always a debate. If the program supports all your cores then cores wins, but most of the time programs don't even use dual cores, nevermind quads. I think a quad core at 4Ghz is the best you could do today. Hexa cores are worthless at the moment, and quads with 4Ghz of speed will eat anything up.

[AKS]

It does tick me off that quad cores aren't receiving the support they should currently, but it's only a matter of time that quad support will begin to become standard in PC games. Quads are very powerful, and as the processing demands of games increase so will quad core support.

[dirthurts]

"Wrong! parallel computing is the new "speed". that is the future for software developments"

You said it, it's the future of software, not the present. Developers still (for the most part) do not properly code for quad cores, or even dual cores. Right now, if you want performance you need clock speed. And again I'm only talking about gaming (this is a game site right?).

[Bass_fisherman]

lol and you PC gamers saying the quad cores are old now and consoles are more expensive lol gtfo

[Garnett]

Who plays racing games on PC?

Might as well play some sports games on PC too..

Makes no sense...

[STONEY4]

Umm, makes perfect sense. Hook up a controller or a wheel, voila, same experience as on consoles, with the added bonus of higher framerates for better response. And mods = never run out of cars to try.

[despair]

Controllers man, they will save your frustration on a PC. I have a wired X360 controller that works flawlessly for 99% of the games and yet I can still use Mouse and keyboard for FPS and RTS games, I'd call that best of both worlds. Not dissing consoles as I love my PS3 and X360 but people do play PC racing and Sports games(well football anyway).

[KimoNoir]

lol in fact people do. You have no idea, it's also fresh to me for sports games on PC but, graphics do look great in literal 1080p and higher. NBA 2k11 is great especially when you can use your 360 controllers or ps3 controller if you set it up right

[TABSF]

Fail

PC has some of the best racing simulators of all time

iRacing
rFactor
Live for Speed
Race series

Also on PC you have an almost unlimited choice of hardware.

Only thing PC is missing is Gran Turismo 5

Getting Gran Turismo 5 Signature Edition midnight launch :p

[pr0digyZA]

The GTR series was brilliant got a wheel just for those games.

[Gitaroo]

I playing on my i7 quad core, no crash so far.

[Miths]

@Garnett

I personally like a wide range of racing games, from NFS Hot Pursuit I just bought for my PS3 today, to iRacing on PC played with my G25 wheel.
And next week I'll of course be picking up GT5.

For sim racers PC remains the only platform - and obviously no sim racer is ever going to make the utterly absurd attempt to use mouse and keyboard for a racing game, hell even playing a pure arcade racer like that is insanity.
A good force feedback wheel is obviously the best choice, with a gamepad as a sometimes acceptable substitute.

Forza and GT are making a decent stab at being "proper" simulations on console, but their physics/handling models and wheel force feedback implementations are no match for PC sims like iRacing, netKar Pro or even the - among sim racers sometimes maligned - ISI engine games like GTR2, GT Legends, Race and RFactor.

PCs support a much wider range of wheels/pedals and gamepads than either console, so assuming that every PC gamer is going to play every type of game with mouse and keyboard (though I'm sure some masochists will try :)) - if that was indeed what you were doing? - doesn't make much sense.

[e3kehoe]

I'm playing it now..although on ps3.. Love this game!!!

[sak500]

So many people above are playing on their pcs yet the pc sales are dismal compared to console owners guess most of them are playing the SKIDROW's versions ;)

Same about COD BO where 360 is now the leader in sales as well.

Shame i've hooked my 360 wired controler on my pc and played some free xbla game it's fun for some time but sitting on for hours looking at tiny 23.6" screen does not make playing racing games fun on a pc. I'd rather lay on couch and play on 50" plasma.

I do have Ci5 760 2.8Ghz @ 3.8 Ghz quad core and ATI 5870 with win 7 ultimate on 128GB SSD drive but still prefer playing on 360.

[AKS]

Sounds like you're full of crap. You have that rig but don't know how to connect a PC to a TV? Ever heard of a wireless keyboard or mouse? I'm typing this message on a plasma TV from my couch.

[sak500]

Hey J@K@ss

My 3Dmark 06 score.

http://www.madonion.com/com...

Shut up i know how to connect i have been building PCs since 1997 when you were in your nappies.

I had hooked it to teh HDTV with HDMI for watching movies but i dont want to be bothered with having to buy a wireless kb/m set than a table small enough to balance on my self when i'm laying on my couch. Why i carry the same junk when i can just have on controller in my hand.

[AKS]

It's you who are silenced. It's obvious why you have only 2 bubbles.

And you seriously are so lazy you can't sit upright to play PC games with kb/m? I can only imagine what your personal hygiene must be like...

[NarooN]

Hexa-cores are completely pointless today, but I guess in the future whenever they become relevant you'll be able to use them, but by then clock speeds will probably advance as well and you'll be behind on that.

Few games nowadays even truly take full use of quad-cores, but quad-cores are far from useless. They're great for high-end video editing/rendering, for example.

If you guys think this is bad though, there are still games coming out that don't use multi-core at all. I played through 007: Blood Stone and it only used one of my two cores. There's really no excuse for it but oh well.