8 Cores Supported in Unreal Engine 3

Are you from the future? Got an 8-core CPU? The Unreal Engine 3 has you covered, says Tim Sweeney:
AMD's new quad-core technology should provide a great performance boost for today's high-end PC games," said Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games Inc. "Our Unreal Engine 3 game technology can take advantage of four and even eight processor cores, improving performance by accelerating physics and AI calculations, and increasing the realism of the game environments our artists can build. Upcoming games like Unreal Tournament 3 will truly fly on these new CPUs.

[bung tickler]

once all this dust settles over optimal number of cores and 64 bit is the norm i'm gonna have to upgrade my computers again (haven't done any major upgrades since about 2001)... i have 4 desktops and 3 laptops... so expensive... sigh.

[WilliamRLBaker]

I play some pc games but most aren't demanding in the least, I find consoles much more cost efficient..

[DirtyRat]

you obviously haven't played any recent PC titles because they are very demanding indeed. Consoles are obviously more cost efficient, but it depends what you are looking for, I'm a PC gamer at heart, but I do enjoy a game on my 42" HD TV...so i just bought a 360 today!

[sak500]

About pc gaming i am also pc gamer by heart and tried out C&C TW demo on both pc and 360, the pc version really blows the 360 version once you maximize all the settings. But then again not everyone will be having a pc with overcloced dual core cpu, 2gb ram and sli vga in their systems. My nephew really got hooked on the 360 version since his home pc which is 3+ years old, with 256MB system ram and onboard vga, and cannot even come in the min requirements for this game.

The 360 will easily beat any avg pc which was bought 1 1/2 years back but cannot compete with the upcoming games like UT III, Crysis etc.

[neogeo]

This game will pack a punch on the PC's that will blow away 360/PS3
this will be the first game that we will really see a difference in graphics....Unless they take lots of time hand programing for the PS3, then maybe.

[bung tickler]

no matter what you will not be able to do stuff on the ps3 that you will be able to do on the PC. the cell is super stipped down for the ps3 thats why it is so cheap. the PC has fancy wiz-bang crap like out of order processing and what-not that the ps3 just can not do no matter how much coding time is spent on the cell.

p.s. the ps3 is not leaps and bounds above the 360 like many would like to belive... if one can do something the other surely can too. ps3 = 360 when it comes to games.

[techie]

multiple cores helps both 360 and ps3

[gta_cb]

yeh this is the thing, when they make a game for a console such as the Xbox 360/PS3 they know what hardware they have so they can push them to the max. but with soo many different PCs available with so many different GPUs + CPUs they cant push them to the max, so i dont really see Unreal being as good on a PC then the consoles.
oh and i know that they prob wouldnt be as good on the pc anyway with the Xbox 360 having the custom made GPU and the PS3 having the Cell.

Its just they said

"Upcoming games like Unreal Tournament 3 will truly fly on these new CPUs."

but there isnt going to be enough people buying this new processor to make a big enough profit. I know im not going to buy one as there going to be too expensive. well not yet anyway, i will in the future.

[techie]

But also the 360 and PS3 are multiple core...meaning the Unreal Engine can now support them better than it did before. Actually while making Gears they were developing alongside their multiple core engine while making Unreal for the PS3 and PC (and of course the 360).

[gta_cb]

ok i didnt know that, but listen to what i am trying to say as from your comment i really dont think your understanding me.

i get that multi core will make games better and will work better with the engine BUT for people like ME and maybe you? who DOESNT have multi core CPUs! ya know most of the world, this game will strugle or wont be playable on our computers IF they program the game to push the limits of the 8 cores etc so with this in mind soon as though i have brought most or all the unreal games on PC with Unreal Tournament 2004 being my favourite, IF i buy this game and it pushes the limits of the high end GPUs available then how is it going to cope on my computer?...

[EDIT]

just incase you do, dont take this comment as being ignorant, it is a concern as many people will be forced to upgrade there computers which does cost more in the long term then buying a next gen console.

[WilliamRLBaker]

last time i checked ps3 had one core, and 8 spes, one thats resigned for guard duty if any of the others die, one thats not used for games, so 6 spes...

Core's and spe's are different.

[kewlkat007]

Can't wait for the Next-Gen Consoles, like 5 years from now with 12 cores.HA

With more third-party developers starting to license the unreal engine, were gonna be seeing some great looking games, ala GOW. I wonder what Square have in mind with that engine? After seeing GOW.

[gta_cb]

also theres new engines coming aswell isnt there, whats that recent one with the news about it?.... somehting like Frost .... i cant remember but if anyone can then let me know please.

[sak500]

@ gta_cb

Yes its called Frostbite. Its being used in game called Battlefield Bad Company by EA. The battlefield series were earlier only on pc till they made BF:Modern Combat for consoles only, which wasnt much a hit. But on PC the BF series have been amazing although initially they were mostly buggy but with multiple patches the games were fixed. Btw the pc series is mainly played online with upto 64 players online whereas Modern combat supported upto 24 player on xbox live. If you have a good computer setup and fast internet connection i suggest trying BF2 or BF2142.

http://xbox360.ign.com/arti...

[neogeo]

They are very different then out of order Pc processors. Yes more cores are good. but they only thing that will help PS3 is how well they program unreal. I know they will do a Good job because I believe this project started on PS3 and was not upported from 360. There needs to be a new rule. No porting from 360 to PS3!!! its making me look bad.

[gta_cb]

"its making me look bad." how is it making you look bad, unless you think that if the PS3 didnt have it ported it would kick the 360s @ss! and you went round saying this.... seriously i dont understand how its making you look bad. all the recent games i have seen look good on both consoles. and there pretty much identicle, especially when there completely different titles where non have been ported.

[Odion]

With so many different computers you can max it beyond what is possible on consoles, hence why Crysis looks better and will play better then pretty much every other shooter coming out this year

[gta_cb]

that is true but just remember that not all people game on PCs, i have a pretty good PC but since i got my next gen console i havnt played a game on here (my PC) in about half a year now and i am not joking.
but yeh there are PC gamers but not evey PC gamer has spent loads of money for a high end PC and if they have and if was more then 1 year ago there PC most probadly wont be classed as good enough to run games like Crysis at full detail etc, when the consoles will have there hardware pushed as far as they can.

which is why in the past with the Xbox and PS2 games on those consoles games looked much better then the same game on a PC EVEN though the processor speed on the PS2 was only about 300Mhz and a PC like mine a couple years ago was 1900+ (AMD Athlon XP) yet the same game always looked better on the console.

[neogeo]

When I tell all my friends about how great and powerful PS3 is, and even talk some of them into buying it. Then a crappy port like fear comes out. I look like an ass.

So yes its maing me look bad....

[gta_cb]

well just explain to them that atm with the PS3 only being out about a half year (unless you live in Europe, then its about 2months) and for the mean time show them something like Motorstorm or ... lair when it comes out, as although motorstorm doesnt appeal to me, loads of people on this website said it looks good.

[TheMART]

Indeed it makes you looking bad, because it really isn't the optimal choice for gaming.

It's not only bad porting, it's just the wrong mix of hardwarecomponents, hard to program and washed out colours.

Have you even seen the nightlevels in Splinter Cell? They were as light as the sun just at the horizon to go down under, but nothing like pitch dark to use the night vision.

So actually it makes you look bad and it probably should because the PS3 dissapoints. That ain't a timed problem, that'll be all through it's lifecycle pwned by the 360. Just get used to it.

[bung tickler]

maybe you told them to buy the wrong system then... maybe you bought the wrong system... that ever cross your mind? if both the 360 and ps3 are equal, which they are when it comes to gaming no matter what the fanboy inside you might say..., then it comes down to programmers to make the most out of what they are given, so if you take that into consideration its not hard to see why games are looking better on the easier to program for system. it will always be this way.

[SIX]

Besides, the elite says that PS3 is the right system.

[bung tickler]

because as the ps3 gets easier to program for and gets better dev tools so will the 360...

and as far as the elite... M$ have always had plans to add a bigger HDD... thats why it is removable... second they have said for a long time, even before the 360 launched, that when the market calls for HDMI they will give them HDMI. so really your comment is invalid.

[hfaze]

I recall how developers were complaining left and right about the PS2 being too hard to code for... Now even inexperienced developers can crank out PS2 games in no time flat.

All it will take is a little more time for the dev kits and API's to mature and become easier.

I'm willing to bet that (just like the 360) around a year after release is when the major breakthroughs will happen and you will see the graphic quality of PS3 games JUMP up.

The 360 really isn't that different from a multi-core G5 PowerMac in archetecture. Where the PS3 is more like a vector processing machine (more like traditional supercomputer architecture). Once again, Sony brought out hardware that was DRASTICALLY different from what most game developers are used to. All it will take is for the developers to work through the learning curve, and rapid development will be present once more.

And before people go bashing Sony for coming out with such a different architecture, this happens with EVERY new generation of consoles... What fun would it be if the "next generation" hardware was only a mild bump up from the previous one? (like going from the NEC PC-Engine to the SuperGraFX... that was a joke...)

[neogeo]

360 is way easier to program for, but the edge tool shows some promise.

[SIX]

I only make my point because designing for the PS3 is such a different animal. It goes without saying that programming for the 360 is very similar as programming for the PC, and true, that's always evolving. Who isn't to say that in the future it won't be the cell that's more efficient? We just need more time to wrap our heads around it. Quick example; The car engine wasn't built the same way it was 50 years ago. Who knows though. We will see.

[power of Green]

(selective?) Ignorance is funny. RE: #9.1 I grow tierd of saying what 9.1 is saying.

[sak500]

How this article starts a flame war between fanbois is really mind boggling. Next up, flaming starts between PS3 and 360 fanbois when loch ness monster is finally found.

[SIX]

You are one evil dude. Calling people you don't even know ignorant. Boooouuurns to you.....Boooouuuuurns. Well anyways! This game is going to be a technical monster, and I can't wait. That's what I meant to say for my first post, but got side tracked with Bloody Diarrhea's comment about how all PS3 owners pretty much wasted there money. Which is not true BTW. PS3 is a very good system, and for Power of Green, so is the 360.

[AIZEN SOZUKE]

i truelly feel sorry for the idiots that thinks crysis looks so great for the games that are comming for ps3 will make you forget crysis ever existed just wait til e3, just to let you know i dont know where someone told you that the cell was stripped down butta i surely aint seen nothing stripped down about it and sony even stated that the finalized hardware came out more powerful than anticipated and anyway did IBM state that the thing was stripped down, also do you know how much sony sacrifice to put a supercomputer into each ps3 man please they spent over 100 billion into the ps3 so whos to say that the cell is stripped down, by the way eight cores isnt eight processors the ps3 has 9 processors and the cell is a supercomputer which can render cg alone that is why with the cell cg/realtime synthesis is enabled which is why the ps3 wont max out ever, i would go further into the details of why ps3 will jump even past 4d but your little minds wont understand in the mean time go smoke some weed, do meth like you always do that is the only way that an idea of pc or 180 being on ps3 level, det genie is still waitin for you in det bottle go get him, and prayer works to, and there is always an answer this year for your crysis and it is a little something called KILLZONE the trailer is already been surpassed and your game crysis dont even look near the original trailer, it barely look better than Glitches of Ware that crysis is very overatted for its graphics it is nothing near cutscene in game it is just pretty regular graphics but a jump naw, if Ubisoft wouldnt have cancelled KILLING DAY(thanks to microsfts bribery) crysis wouldnt be on your balls but thanks much testiclesoft anyway the fact is to think that pcs have surpassed consoles already, let alone a machine that is B3YOND a supercomputer you must really do meth, pcs aint ever surpassed consoles this early and this time ps3 will not be surpassed thanks to its ever growing power that is in the ps3 design and cell/rsx merger this is why phil harisson stated, "no one will ever max out ps3", really he couldve said this and he shouldve, "No one will ever come close to maxing out ps3", many pc meth doers dont even know the ps3 is so strong they really could make ps3 the ps4 that is why ps4 is only concept they really dont even need it since the ps3 will break deep within the 4d era in a few years maybe no even that so before you throw crysis at me please wait about 5 years till maybe crysis 3 comes out then we might have something

[sloth4urluv]

I truley feel sorry for you because your an idiot...

You make other PS3 fans look dumb.

(Just got to the end and realized you were being funny.
Started using what phil harrison says as truth and talking about 4D :P)

[id dot entity]

Next year the 16 core will come. Followed by the 32, 64, 128...

[AIZEN SOZUKE]

we will see how much of an idiot i will be, when 4d is a R3ALITY till then continue smoking meth, and plus i am dead serious