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by dogma1138 3420 days ago
Again this isn't about steam hardware survey it's about reality.

Out of the lastest 10 AAA titles only one I would call something that might be worth more than 4 cores and it's WD2.

2 cores on 100%, 2 more on 60-70% and 2 more on 20%. W/ HT it will be 2, 100% and the 10 left "cores" at about 15%.

And this is by far the best "multithreaded" game that came out in the past 8-12 months.

What devs do for consoles doesn't translates to PC, PCs come with a huge variety in hardware and unlike consoles where devs get 6-7 cores out of the 8 exclusively for their game on a PC they have to live with everything else from AV scans to Streaming.

No one is taking advantages of multicore CPUs because no one can do it right on a fragmented platform where you don't control over the runstate of the app, co-hosting and have zero knowledge about it's hardware and configuration.