Supreme Commander is one of the latest real-time strategy games and there is a certain detail that makes the game extra interesting for us hardware enthusiasts. Supreme Commander is namely one out of very few games that has been designed to take advantage of processors with multiple cores. And it’s not just a simple support, but the developers have really tried to take advantage of the extra cores. At HardOCP they’ve taken a closer look at Supreme Commander and its optimization for multiple cores. They’ve tested the game with both Windows XP and Windows Vista and 1, 2 or 4 processor cores. The results are both interesting, positive and a bit sad.
The multi-core support works really well, which means that you finally is able to use your extra core(s), while you at the same time need a quad-core processor for optimal performance, which isn’t exactly cheap today.
Supreme Commander is the first game we have experienced that very much exposes the power of Intel’s new Core 2 Quad line of processors. If you are thinking of playing Supreme Commander the more processor cores your computer has the better. Enthusiasts have been searching for a game to truly show of the power of multi-core gaming and that game is finally here.
