Crysis Benchmarking - Methodology and Mythbusting

[Nedjo]

First, let me say excellent post about benchmarking Crysis!!!! Great job!

But I have a problem with this statement below.
Doesnt Supreme Commander use 4 cores? Lost Planet? Also, I have seen Crysis use 4 cores as well. They were not all maxed out, but there was significant CPU usage on cores 3 and 4.

There are a few games out already that can utilize more than 2 cores.

Let me see if I can find those threads.
Some Valve games do

I guess the key word is OPTIMIZED. There are a few games that can use more than 2 cores, but none are OPTIMIZED to do so.

I'm glad you like this thread.
I haven't tried Superme commander, so I might be wrong on it. Will try LP. Regarding crysis, my testing with 2/3/4 cores don't show any difference, so I'm inclined to think that mulitcore support in this game is just marketing hype.
Regarding Valve's games there are no confirmation in benchmarking that they're multithreaded. hopefully I'll get Orange Box soon to check out...