Hero Engine: why?

is it possible for bioware to switch the assets to a different more in-house engine at some point in the future? Or are we as players screwed.

The engine has been extensively customized by Bioware for their requirements. All they really did was licence the core technology and then rewrite from there.

Hence, for all intents and purposes, it is an in house custom engine now.



OP, get over yourself. You are not graphics engine expert. Just a /ranter

I have a X4 960T 3ghz (3.4 if it wants to turbo), and it only uses 2 cores at about 70%. I honestly have no idea whats going on its barely pushing my cpu but my fps is not so great. Video card is a gtx260 216sp, which is a 2008 card but its not slow. Can play battlefield on medium settings and be over 30fps in 64 player games the entire time.

This is a known issue and there are literally many hundreds of posts on the support forums about this. My poor i5-750 does 2 cores at no more than 50% and my GTX 470 GPU almost never goes over 30%. I'm lucky to have 15 FPS in a fight and for many it's as low as 4 FPS. There are a lot of different suggestions on how to fix, but nothing that works consistently and the general consensus is that it's a game engine bug as it seems to hit ATI and NVIDA as well as AMD and Intel. Most people report that they can play other demanding games at higher settings with much better FPS. I spend many hours tuning, cleaning, reducing settings, setting process priorities, reducing Win 7 features like Aero, disabling services, moved to a west coast server for 19 ms latency, disabled my second monitor and I finally got to the point that the game is playable in Alderaan for a couple hours until the memory leaks kill me. Otherwise it was 15 FPS standing still and 4 FPS in every fight all why my system has plenty of CPU, GPU, memory. disk IO and bandwidth.

That's really strange, could it possibly be an AMD driver issue? I remember I installed specific drivers for the processor earlier on - I called my friend and he sees all of his four cores used, he has 965 model of the same processor.
Regardless, the performance doesn't really change even if I tick two cores off from affinity - I don't know how well the modified engine utilizes the cores but at least they get usage.

I've noticed the game uses the GPU very little compared to CPU load.. Might be some unnoticed loop going on that screws the FPS for some CPU's.

Are you using the Task Manager? You know, if you where running winamp, Internet Explorer or Firefox etc. will it use the others cores, that is why you are seeing all your cores being used!

Bleating masses and those masquerading as programmers but have failed to correct some of the simple arguments being made by proponents of HE.

Shenanigans called on any and all those saying "I work for blah, make blah, boardroom blah", and did not point this out.

Multi-core support is not Multi-threading.

Thank you.

Shenanigans has been called. Shenanigans has been proven. You are in violation. Go back to your mid-level project management job and leave the tech talk to those educated in technology, not in putting up sticky notes.

Edit: Those of you voicing your opinions and not trying to back it up with impressive OMG IM SO IMPORTANT are still welcome. An opinion is an opinion, no matter how under/over educated on the subject.