Does GECK use all processor cores?

[Morthon]

I've been looking into worldspace building and am enthusiastic in making my own Wasteland complete with its own story. But looking into the details and trying out some stuff in the GECK, I inevitably bumped onto the 'issue' of LOD generating world meshes. The information I've found so far sticks around the estimate of 1-2 weeks of nonstop generating for reasonably sized worldspaces.

 

I'm willing to try it out as I have a reasonably powerful desktop setup (Intel® Core i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.5GHz 8 GB DDR5 RAM, AMD Radeon 7900 GPU)

 

My point is that during test generations, GECK takes up about 13% of my CPU according to task manager. I've read that when generating it would normally be around 100%. I've read in an article of Skyrim's Creation Kit that "Terrain generation now utilizes all processor cores, allowing for much faster mesh creation. This is a huge improvement over Fallout 3's GECK, as it would only use two cores and could take weeks to generate a single worldspace." Does this mean Fallout New Vegas' version of GECK doesn't make use of all processor cores? And if so, is it possible to enable it to do so?

Thanks in advance!

Edited April 27, 2013 by Morthon

[Nimboss]

Hi,

 

My tries and errors while generating LOD with GECK is that it uses one core only, so in my case I built a dual core PC and O.C. to around 4.3 GHz to get up the speed (got unstable in my case if I pushed above that).

 

Examinning processor usage at LOD generating (task manager) shows the 100% utilization jumps between all cores but never at the same time when playing with a multicore CPU.

 

Was that citation regarding CK vs GECK from an official Bethesda site? Then there might be some hidden setting to enable at least true two core usage when generating LOD.

 

[luthienanarion]

Task Manager is correct about the 13% figure on an 8-core processor, as that's 1/8th of your processor (rounded up from 12.5%). That's one processor core maxed out. Quad-core systems will similarly show 25% usage when using all resources available for one core.