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[fiver1niner]

pc is cheaper cause no money goes to microsoft or sony....thats why....also cause it costs money to port it to console

[LeopoldCrank]

pc is cheaper cause no money goes to microsoft or sony....thats why....also cause it costs money to port it to console

 

Nope, it's made for console (XBOX 360 to be specific) and ported to PC

[ub3rman123]

pc is cheaper cause no money goes to microsoft or sony....thats why....also cause it costs money to port it to console

 

Nope, it's made for console (XBOX 360 to be specific) and ported to PC

 

It's made on a PC for a console then ported to the console.

[Ghogiel]

pc is cheaper cause no money goes to microsoft or sony....thats why....also cause it costs money to port it to console

 

Nope, it's made for console (XBOX 360 to be specific) and ported to PC

 

It's made on a PC for a console then ported to the console.

It's made on the PC for the console, designed around and optimised for the console, and then after the fact anything PC specific is looked at. The code base is first designed and optimised around the console architecture. This is why oblivion can only ever use a single core on PCs but obviously makes use of the the xbox's tri core processor. They didn't have time to actually make it work on PC hardware correctly. Amongst many other features that are remnants of xbox development or missing features because they never fully completed a PC version, it is a xbox game after all.

 

If you want to call that porting to the PC, ok. Or not. whatever.

 

The PC version of Skyrim should be far more complete than Ob ever was. but their primary platform is the xbox. It's been said they are utilising DX11 API but apparently they will not use any actual dx11 features.ect

[10dmcghee]

In Soviet Russia Skyrim buy you!

[Fonger]

pc is cheaper cause no money goes to microsoft or sony....thats why....also cause it costs money to port it to console

 

Nope, it's made for console (XBOX 360 to be specific) and ported to PC

 

It's made on a PC for a console then ported to the console.

It's made on the PC for the console, designed around and optimised for the console, and then after the fact anything PC specific is looked at. The code base is first designed and optimised around the console architecture. This is why oblivion can only ever use a single core on PCs but obviously makes use of the the xbox's tri core processor. They didn't have time to actually make it work on PC hardware correctly. Amongst many other features that are remnants of xbox development or missing features because they never fully completed a PC version, it is a xbox game after all.

Its designed on the Xbox

using the patented and trade secret protected -- xbox construction set

(notice the paddle keyboard)

 

then handed over to the translation committee

where its automatically converted to the PC

note - this committee does not use multi-cores

(budget constraints)

so everything it produces runs on exactly 1 core

 

then handed over from the PC committee

so it can be translated to the PS3

 

 

Ok, now stop laughing.

It is Bethesda after all

[worm82075]

so everything it produces runs on exactly 1 core

FO3 uses more than one core.

[Iv000]

so everything it produces runs on exactly 1 core

FO3 uses more than one core.

Indeed, It uses two, out of six available.

Though that's understandable since it was released in 2008, it would be nice if Skyrim used four, or even more which is unlikely.

 

Also, I think what he said was a joke.

Edited September 4, 2011 by Iv000

[worm82075]

Indeed, It uses two,

 

On my PC I too have a six core CPU.

 

OB uses 100% of one core and 25% of a second.

 

FO3 uses 100% of one core, 50% of a second and 25% of both a third and fourth.

 

If we are lucky Skyrim will better that by using 100% of two cores and 50% of a third and fourth.

[Fonger]

so everything it produces runs on exactly 1 core

FO3 uses more than one core.

read the entire original quote

 

it's much more coherent then

 

and I stand by the assessment