CPU performances

**Caterpillar** · 12-21-2012, 01:04 PM

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 Smile

**plutomaniac** · 12-21-2012, 02:12 PM

By the gpu, maybe your previous processor was bottlenecking your graphics card

**Caterpillar** · 12-21-2012, 02:35 PM

(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?

**TheBlastPassage** · 12-21-2012, 02:45 PM

Well, a better CPU never hurts Tongue

**Caterpillar** · 12-21-2012, 02:48 PM

When I had to low some SSAO settings, I tought it was a GPU slowness, instead it was the CPU bottleneck :O