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they use extra cores for live video recording and fun like that, also console games are usually run in a vm on the console these days so it's giving the OS some
by rf15 8y ago
they use extra cores for live video recording and fun like that, also console games are usually run in a vm on the console these days so it's giving the OS some spare space too (contact lists/chat, achievements, etc.). Also it gives games the possibility to run on more cores if you're AAA and want to leverage them.
- rf15 8y agoif you are disagreeing with my broad-ish statements about two very different platforms please explain how I am wrong instead of just downvoting.
- daemin 8y agoYou are wrong because games released in the past few years are heavily multithreaded. The only game recently that I've seen not be multithreaded is Battletech. The latest Total War series are heavily multithreaded. As far as the cores go on consoles, game developers try to use all of them all the time, and in general there's only one core that is half dedicated to doing OS / interaction / video recording tasks.
- rf15 8y agoI checked a few sources and you are right. turns out I was in a bubble there.