Retail game only supports one core?

[InferiorBeing]

Okay, this is scary. Around the forum, I see sporadic mentions of the full game only utilizing 1 core - at least for some players. Not sure how many. Is this true? Could someone please shed some light on this?

[randir14]

When I check my CPU performance during the game it's almost maxing out one core, and the other three are barely active.

[JohnLukeG]

Same here. I've got eight threads, I wish it would use at least two of them.

[tylerman29]

Same here on an Overclocked I7 930..

[Zarhadom]

wtf, i have a quadcore and your telling me the game is not using them? :o
What is the point in buying now rigs if even big brands like totalwar wont make games that make use of them??

[JohnLukeG]

wtf, i have a quadcore and your telling me the game is not using them? :o
What is the point in buying now rigs if even big brands like totalwar wont make games that make use of them??

Well, see for yourself. You can see the activity of your CPU in the task manager. Perhaps it's working for you, but mine has just been all piled on the first core.

[InferiorBeing]

Is this one of those things that disappeared along with the DX11-support, then?

[Ulster Confederate]

This is crazy its 2011 surely the game uses more than one core. In my opinion this would be even worse than releasing the game with no AA. As has been said “what’s the point in having a quad core?”
Can someone from CA comment on this please?

[Zarhadom]

This is crazy its 2011 surely the game uses more than one core. In my opinion this would be even worse than releasing the game with no AA. As has been said “what’s the point in having a quad core?”
Can someone from CA comment on this please?

I think you need to be on the official CA forums for that.http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...tement-on-this

[InferiorBeing]

According to CA, the game does support multiple cores. They didn't say to what extent, though.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...433475&page=23

[Blom89]

I know you can use ATI Tray Tools to monitor CPU usage in game. But I dunno if the % displayed is only for 1 core or all your cores.

[Brusilov]

Well, it certainly likes one of the cores but I think it does use some of the other ones as well......

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Zarhadom]

My cores seems to be utilized pretty even. 80-90% on one and 20-40 on the others :p
(i have quadcore )

[braydog92]

Mine work as above post. Quadcore as well. I would like to see more utilization of the other 3 cores, though.