• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Maybe this will push more game developers to develop games that use multiple cores? I know nothing about game development.

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        1 year ago

        That has been happening for the last decade, but it’s really hard.

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        1 year ago

        Most AAA game studios target consoles first. Their in-house or external porting teams will then adapt it for Windows, but by then major engine decisions will likely have already been made in service of supporting the Ryzen/RDNA based Xbox Series and PS5 consoles. Smaller studios might try to target all systems at once but aiming for the least common denominator (Vulkan, low hardware requirements). Switch is a bit of its own best when trying to get high performance graphics.

        Multi threading is mostly used for graphics, sound, and animation tasks while game logic and scripting is almost always single threaded.

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          I bought Ryzen 3950x 16 cores 32 threads.

          The first thing I noticed is some AAA games only utilize 8 cores. When you go multi threaded, it’s a matter of adding more threads which can dynamically selected based on the host hardware. AAA game studios are going the bad practice route.

          I understand if they port an algorithm optimized to run on specific hardware as it’s. But, a thread count?

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            1 year ago

            it’s a matter of adding more threads

            You can’t ask 300 people to build a chair, and expect the chair to be finished 300x faster than if a single person would build it.

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              Also, to make it more accurate to what multi-threading does, none of those 300 people can see what the others are doing. And the most reliable ways of sending messages to each other involve taking a nap (though it might be brief, you might wake up in an entirely different body and need to fetch your working memory from your old body or worse, from RAM).

              Or you can repeatedly write your message until you can be sure that no one else wrote over it since you started writing it. And the more threads you have, the more likely another one wrote over your message to the point where all threads are spending all of their time trying to coordinate and no time working.

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                  1 year ago

                  I’m not familiar with their implementation but they’ll likely have one of those mechanisms under the hood.

                  You can only avoid them in very simple cases that don’t really scale up to a large number of threads in most cases. The one exception that does scale well is large amounts of data that can be processed independently of the rest of the data and the results are also independent. 3D rendering is one example, though some effects can create dependencies.