How many CPU cores does Shogun 2 use?

[Lord-Fisher]

Ok, I've read in a few threads that Shogun 2 only uses one core, however, these were early release threads. Has anything changed, or does it still only use one core?

I ask because I have a Phenom II X6 1075T 3ghz, overclocked to 3.6ghz. If shogun 2 only uses 1 core, then in theory, I'd get better performance if I only let it use one core through setting the affinity in task manager.

[Son of a Preacher]

got the same question. Is it better too run everything on one core with 2,9 gh or shogun II on one 2,0 core and windows and other aplications on three other cores wiith 10%-20% usage.... i dont know. Maybe someone with CPU-knowledge can give a advice...

[daniu]

Ok, I've read in a few threads that Shogun 2 only uses one core, however, these were early release threads. Has anything changed, or does it still only use one core?

I ask because I have a Phenom II X6 1075T 3ghz, overclocked to 3.6ghz. If shogun 2 only uses 1 core, then in theory, I'd get better performance if I only let it use one core through setting the affinity in task manager.

Setting the affinity in the taskmanager won't make the one core run faster, so it won't really matter. S2 doesn't run entirely single-core though, so only allowing it one will make it slightly slower.

got the same question. Is it better too run everything on one core with 2,9 gh or shogun II on one 2,0 core and windows and other aplications on three other cores wiith 10%-20% usage.... i dont know. Maybe someone with CPU-knowledge can give a advice...

One core on 2.9 Gh will most probably be somewhat faster; hard to say if it will be noticeable though.
But I'm not aware of a way to switch off three cores to have one run faster... pretty certain they don't do that on their own.

[Lord-Fisher]

Setting the affinity in the taskmanager won't make the one core run faster, so it won't really matter. S2 doesn't run entirely single-core though, so only allowing it one will make it slightly slower.


One core on 2.9 Gh will most probably be somewhat faster; hard to say if it will be noticeable though.
But I'm not aware of a way to switch off three cores to have one run faster... pretty certain they don't do that on their own.

Hmmm, but surely, if you limit it to one or couple of cores, the load is more evenly spread, meaning less spikes ectc.?

[Son of a Preacher]

One core on 2.9 Gh will most probably be somewhat faster; hard to say if it will be noticeable though.
But I'm not aware of a way to switch off three cores to have one run faster... pretty certain they don't do that on their own.

Ah okay thank you. For all i know my i7 does power up one core if the other threes arent used. so maybe i give it a try with the affinity tool. On the other hand the most posts say that this wouldnt work the way i needed it, for my little experemint. So maybe i just play it as always /multicore. Thanks for the answer!

[kostas84]

One way to determine that is to watch a youtube video of someone famous to play Shogun 2 with a high-end computer, and compare the loading screen with your own(if you have a worse CPU than he has).

[Lord-Fisher]

One way to determine that is to watch a youtube video of someone famous to play Shogun 2 with a high-end computer, and compare the loading screen with your own(if you have a worse CPU than he has).

That doesn't seem like a very accurate way of telling, especially as CPU isn't the only thing that affects loading times, and not only that, I don't see how that would let me know how many cores shogun 2 utilizes.

[kostas84]

If you have a 2-core cpu and he has a 4-core cpu and he loads a lot faster than you even though the difference in GHz is little then the game uses more than 2 cores.

[Lord-Fisher]

If you have a 2-core cpu and he has a 4-core cpu and he loads a lot faster than you even though the difference in GHz is little then the game uses more than 2 cores.

No offense, but did you read the opening post? I have 6 cores...

[kostas84]

I was giving an example...

[Lord-Fisher]

I was giving an example...

Well, cores aren't the only determining factor for loading time, so this method would be unreliable. Also, I'm looking for a specific answer of how many cores are used, not a general idea, but thanks anyway.

[Crazyeyesreaper]

it has no impact affinity does nothing limiting cores lowers performance more than it helps

if you want the game to run faster buy an Intel CPU namely a 3570k or 3770k overclock it to 4.4 GHz or better and you will finally see FPS stay above 30 at all times.

simply put no matter what you do performance will be slow on the AMD chip

when loading Shogun 2 uses more cores gameplay it uses 1-3 depending on the system with around 90% of it being on 1 core.

for most games HDD etc limits load times, in Shogun 2 it has 0 impact SSD or HDD = 0 difference in loading this is because of the Shader code needing to be compiled during load times for battles etc. again you want it to be faster your pretty much forced to run Intel for this particular title both for load times and for gameplay performance.

All these ridiculous limit cores select affinity for CPU cores etc etc etc have next to 0 impact. Pretty much what matters is IPC and Clock speed both are linked AMD sadly has lower IPC which means slower loadidng so even with the extra cores and boosted clock speed it still takes awhile.

[Lokgar]

I dunno, my CPU always seem to perform wonderfully. I run the game at mostly all ultra dx11 (with the config files set so the game won't downgrade automatically) and it runs pretty smoothly on large unit sizes, but with all the bells and whistles activated.
I like to think triple channel RAM helps it quite a bit/

[Lord-Fisher]

I dunno, my CPU always seem to perform wonderfully. I run the game at mostly all ultra dx11 (with the config files set so the game won't downgrade automatically) and it runs pretty smoothly on large unit sizes, but with all the bells and whistles activated.
I like to think triple channel RAM helps it quite a bit/

Interesting, what CPU do you have?

Also, might be a stupid question but...bells and whistles?

[Man'o'War]

Interesting, what CPU do you have?

Also, might be a stupid question but...bells and whistles?

I'm pretty sure he means he has everything enabled such as V sync, tesselation etc.
When something has "all the bells and whistles" it means it's at the top spec' for a given thing.

[Lord-Fisher]

I'm pretty sure he means he has everything enabled such as V sync, tesselation etc.
When something has "all the bells and whistles" it means it's at the top spec' for a given thing.

Ah, ok thanks

[adamove]

This game use only 1 CORE, one all the time, so it doesnt matter how many core you have 6 or 4 IT USES ONLY ONE!

[Lokgar]

Well, shogun 2 uses more than one core for me. It just taps out at about 85% usage.

[nickb64]

I don't think it says how many cores it can use, but this article on Intel's site clearly confirms Shogun 2 is multithreaded.

[legoras]

Yes, but still use maximal 2 core

1 Core = 100%
2 Core = 50%
3/4 = 25%
So 200/400 (If you have 4 cores). And it's maximal usage ;/