Hero Engine: why?

It doesn't, and they don't.

The OS will cycle thru the cores, and it may appear that each core is getting a thread, when actually, what is happening is that it's time-slicing. Something that's been happening in Windows since it was created (and the reason it took over from DOS in the first place). Time-slicing makes a computer appear as if it's multi-tasking, when done fast enough. Multi-threading on the other hand, is actualling doing just that, multi-tasking. The tasks can be divided and much more quickly completed with multi-cores.

As for the quad-core statement, a quad-core (or in my case, an 8-core) will not handle this game any better than a dual core. The bandwidth of the processor plays a bigger role in this game, because it's not multi-threaded. If it were, we'd see a significant improvement in multi-core processors.

On that note, I'm done debating....

It seems like they spared no expense in developing SWTOR. Except on... the engine.

Actually, have more than two cores can help, in some cases significantly. Running TOR is never the only thing your computer's doing, and having extra cores beyond the two TOR needs allows the system to offload those processes to cores the game isn't using.

Well I got a degree from MIT and I've been playing MMOs for 20 years, including vanilla WoW (I got into WoW during beta). I am running a liquid cooled rig with some nice GeForce GTX 580s in sli, got a i7-975 Extreme Edition, 2 ssd for 1tb total, and 48gb of ram, so I do know what I am talking about, unlike everyone else in this thread.

brb, gotta head up to Hopkins... Ben Carson said he hit a roadblock. That nub will never learn....

Okay, indirectly, yes, you're correct, having multiple cores will improve that and lighten the load for the game. But, the game itself, sadly, directly will not benefit from a quad core, 6 core, or 8 core processor, as it only runs 2 instances of the program, simulating multi-core support, when in reality, it does not.

Did they rebuild the hero engine for swtor?

And god knows im no bioware fanboy but im rpetty happy with their first pass at fixing the ability delay thing, mine is almost all gone it happens very rarely now.

People who don't know how engines work shouldn't post about them... and especially shouldn't make ill-gotten conclusions from their misinformation.

An engine is just a collection of coding tools. Unreal, Hero, Cry engine... they're all just names attached to a basic collection of coding tools.

When a company decides to use an engine, they almost never go with basic engine. The only notable exceptions are the companies that created the engines. Companies will add tools and customize it.

The engine that TOR uses might have began as the Hero engine, but the current set of coding tools they're using now can't rightly be called the Hero engine anymore.

so then let me ask you this:

Can the "used to be Hero Engine" that SWTOR is running be upgrade in it's current form to take advantage of DirectX 11 and Multithreading to produce a game that is worthy of 2012?

So this is why the game is such an epic fail...