Does Drive Have Multi-Core Support?

Drive only uses 1 core on my i7-4700MQ processor, according to Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. Any way to make it use more?

 

We have the same processor...

I think it only uses one per car. If you were to load another car it would use the other core... I think.

 

Yes I noticed that. Now my second question is, when I have one car in the game in a map like the hiroshi speedway in fullscreen, I only get around 15-20 Fps. Cant drive utilize more cores to speed things up? (I don't know much about this stuff, so correct me or tell me why it cant)

 

Intriguing. Would be cool to be able to utilize more cores at will but I think we're talking about a major, MAJOR code tweak and probably a bunch of other stuff.

 

It would be cool with some type of core manager.

4 core processor, 1 vehicle : 4 cores for that vehicle
4 core processor, 2 vehicles : 2 cores for each vehicles
4 core processor, 3 vehicles : split work as even as possible among cores for each vehicle
4 core processor, 4 vehicles : one core per vehicle
etc.

Again that would require major code tweaking and is most likely not feasible.

 

Exactly. it would require BeamNG to access all sorts of CPU logic on so many levels it boggles the mind. To get full integration and processor assets would require
the PC to enter a sleep state of sorts, stopping all but the most critical operations, just to make the effort worth it. You'd have better luck hiring an outlaw hardware
modder to build a twin i7 5960K 8/12 core monster for 10 grand.....like I've been dreaming of doing.

 

What's the GPU?

 

main reason they don't do that is because your vehicle would end up quite out of sync with all the other parts

how so? well windows controls priority levels, so windows could suddenly give something else priority over beamng in some core, which would then cause the parts of the vehicle being simulated on said core to slow-down, and go out of sync

 

See http://www.beamng.com/threads/10286-More-Multithreading

In the end because the vehicle is 1 huge chunk of mesh, you cannot just slap multiple processors on the vehicle and make it perform faster - those would have to be synchronized again which would kill the performance again.
So they use just 1 core per vehicle which will just scale fine the more vehicles you have. And it's easier to implement because they already have it that way