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Ask GN 13: Poor Dx12 Performance, Star Citizen Threading, More

Posted on March 30, 2016

This week's episode of Ask GN (previous here) delves into reader questions pertaining to initial DirectX 12 performance, Star Citizen CPU thread allocation, “weird” computer issues, and more. Timestamps and video are below.

Star Citizen is an interesting one, and we'd recommend this interview with Chris Roberts as a follow-up for more depth. CPU thread allocation is currently heavy on the third thread/core right now, Star Citizen being in development, but the game hopes to utilize as many threads as it's assigned. Eventually, anyway. CryEngine is technically capable of spawning 8 threads and could utilize hyperthreaded CPUs and 8-core AMD CPUs, if games were built to distribute load in such a fashion. Learn more about that here.

0:20 - charliebrownnz1: Shouldn't we be expecting better performance gains from the xbox one ports considering these were basically built from the ground up on a low-level api very similar to dx12? It was mind boggling that rise of the tomb raider was released without dx12 support at launch and the performance gain was miniscule if at all.?

02:30 - Drake Owens: Hi Steve, I have two 'Ask GN' questions:When will we see benchmarks of DX12 using one graphics card and the iGPU?What are your thoughts on the Windows Store/DX12 attempt to restrict third party add ons such as FRAP, mods etc.??

04:58 - kaustubh: which is the weirdest issue you had with your pc so far??

05:48 - perfectcircle1000: GN I have a question for the next episode of ASK GN, Is Star citizen Going to benefit from more than 4 cores? is the sweet spot for this game regarding number of cores going to be 6 or 8 cores with hyperthreading, what is your opinion? Star Citizen is looking like its going to be CPU intensive with all the in game mechanics/systems the developers are putting into the game. I ask because I'm looking to upgrade my PC very soon and I want to get the best performance I can for this game.?

07:40 - Amin Roazman: Are you ever going to change your attire ^^. Black shirt and blue jeans?

Host: Steve “Lelldorianx” Burke
Video Production: Keegan “HornetSting” Gallick