Comments on Greg's Place: GU42 is now live!

Thanks for the nice comments!

The PVP writs...

2008-02-18T11:52:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the nice comments!

The PVP writs were probably created by one of our designers, but I'm not sure who unfortunately.

(( Hiyas Greg, Great work so far, Ive been reading...

2008-02-17T23:15:00.000-08:00

(( Hiyas Greg, Great work so far, Ive been reading through your blog and noticed that the lastest awesome changes have been your doing!!!

Great work on the ping window and other nice stuff!

I had a question about the GU42, regarding PvP... did you work on that coding at all for the pvp writs? Or is that a different group of programmers? o.O

Thanks in advance if you can satiate my curiosities hehe.

Have a great day and take care,

-S

A dual core machine will certainly give a performa...

2008-02-14T12:36:00.000-08:00

A dual core machine will certainly give a performance improvement over single core if only for the fact that the O/S will manage the load better. However, the resource manager in the client will make use of another thread for loading assets from the disk. I don't think we have plans for more at the moment. With EQ2 having started development over 4-5 years ago, it wasn't really designed with this in mind. So, retrofitting the client to make use of multiple cores is a time-consuming and risky prospect. This doesn't mean we might not find more ways to make use of it in the future though.

You know, I feel the need to ask, since it seems y...

2008-02-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

You know, I feel the need to ask, since it seems you would be one of the right people to be able to answer.

Along the lines of optimization.. Is the EQ2 client yet taking advantage of Dual/Quad core CPUs at this point? Certainly you must be with the server components anyways.

With their becoming more and more prevailant, I would think this would be big scalability issue. I know originally the engine was built for maximum scalability, but that was at a time when CPUs had a single core and Moore's law was being applied to clock speed primarily in the PC CPU realm.

Since then clock speed has tapered off in favor of additional cores and 64-bit computing.

I also agree with Gabe Newell of VALVe software's recent statements that he believes that he believes the PC will begin moving towards a more homogeneous architecture with video rendering moving closer and closer to the main CPU vs. being a separate card altogether.

..forgive me if I ramble. I'm a somewhat verbose geek at times =)

We try to make optimizations at every opportunity....

2008-02-14T11:23:00.000-08:00

We try to make optimizations at every opportunity. Performance is very important to us. In fact Autenil has been working during the past week to track down memory leaks in our servers. As far as a large revamp to the game client and rendering engine, nothing is planned at the moment.

I am wondering if you at SOE is going to do a majo...

2008-02-14T03:07:00.000-08:00

I am wondering if you at SOE is going to do a major optimisation of EverQuest II soon? The game takes up way too much performance for what it looks like.

Well done on the optimization thing! It does feel ...

2008-02-12T21:03:00.000-08:00

Well done on the optimization thing! It does feel good to increase performance, even if only marginally. Coming from working in a performance DB company, I can tell you that those little tweaks really do add up! =)

Cheers,

Nick