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CPU performances - Caterpillar - 12-21-2012
Hi, I would like to know if SSAO shadows are mostly rendered by CPU or GPU. When I played Amnesia for the first time, I had a Phenom II X2 550BE and a Geforce GTX260. Now I upgraded my cpu to a Phenom II X4 965BE and it seems that the game is a lot smoother, expecially with video options to maximum requirements. To add some details, I can say that I played all Frictional Games on Fedora Linux :-)
There are games that are very sensible to CPU speed rather than GPU, I am curious to know what about Amnesia
RE: CPU performances - plutomaniac - 12-21-2012
By the gpu, maybe your previous processor was bottlenecking your graphics card
RE: CPU performances - Caterpillar - 12-21-2012
(12-21-2012, 02:12 PM)plutomaniac Wrote: By the gpu, maybe your previous processor was bottlenecking your graphics card
So is Amnesia high optimized for parallel calculus on CPU cores?
RE: CPU performances - TheBlastPassage - 12-21-2012
Well, a better CPU never hurts
RE: CPU performances - Caterpillar - 12-21-2012
When I had to low some SSAO settings, I tought it was a GPU slowness, instead it was the CPU bottleneck :O