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Factorio is an indie game, I guess it might not be easy for indie developers to make use of multithreading, whereas AAA game developers have entire teams dedica

Factorio is an indie game, I guess it might not be easy for indie developers to make use of multithreading, whereas AAA game developers have entire teams dedicated to engine development and multithreading. Anyway, traditional graphics APIs like OpenGL are practically single-threaded. Modern APIs like DX12 and Vulkan have been designed with multithreading in mind and support scaling with number of cores much better (with added overhead of having to do manual synchronization).

apk-d 7y ago
> AAA game developers have entire teams dedicated to engine development and multithreading Unity has been introducing a lot of features (Job System, ECS) that make excellent use of parallelism. Additionally, a lot of the engine internals are being rewritten with that as a base (and some of the old features get patched with APIs that allow access from multithreaded jobs). It's a lot of fun when the code you write by default runs on all of the cores, with (almost) none of the usual parallel programming headaches. Pretty soon you should start seeing all kinds of indie titles making use of those features.