The Powder Toy

Is TPT GPU Or CPU Dependent?

  • pedroc1999     12th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    I am wondering if this game is more GPU or CPU oriented, I know it cant use more than 1core(2 with gravity) But does it benefit from a higher clock(ie GHz) or does it like a beefier GPU than CPU?

  • Jallibad     12th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @pedroc1999 (View Post)

     I think that it uses CPU.

  • Candunc     13th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    It uses one core on the CPU. Multicore is glitchy, and GPU hasn't been implemented.

  • pedroc1999     13th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    So NO GPU is being used... Isnt that a abit of a waste? I know multicore would be hard to implement, but why not the GFX card cores? would it be too hard aswell?

  • mniip     13th Feb 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    @pedroc1999 (View Post)
    drawing is about 10% of time, the other 90 are simulation
  • barts0924     13th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    so if i was on a 4 core 2.66 ghz then i would be as fast as a 2 core 2.66 ghz correct?

  • boxmein     13th Feb 2013 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @barts0924 (View Post)
    Yes. Unless your processors are under lots of load.
  • pedroc1999     13th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    But would a 4core 4.0GHz perform better than a 3.5GHz 4 core?

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