Multicore Threading in 8.1

[WOWBOX40]

More fps while in direct x 12.

https://www.wowhead.com/news=287727/...s-of-vengeance

[Gid]

Nice catch wowbox40. I wonder if that will change the landscape for multiboxing hardware for WoW.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'd surmise that if it is a fix to DX12 rendering being CPU-bound, then it means enabling it will necessarily eat more of your CPU threads, and may require a different core allocation if you manage that manually.

[Spacecowboy]

Coming in 8.1 Blizz will be adding support for multicore threading to WOW. How do you think this will affect performance while multiboxing? Has anyone tested it on the PTR?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

All depends on how they optimize it. And with Blizzard apparently moving a bunch of their efforts to mobile gaming, that will be an interesting evolution to be sure. I don't see any material changes for multiboxers aside from possibly a change in the way we assign core affinity.

[Tin]

Update:
Tides of Vengeance brings new optimizations for medium-high setups, allowing the WoW game engine to better use multithreaded processors. These changes show improvements of around 20% to framerates, depending on system specs.On top of these changes, players using Nvidia cards should see even more improvements, as their most recent driver update (December 3rd) includes further optimizations, adding another 5% or so improvement to frame rate values.
It is important to note that all these optimizations are available only for users using DirectX 12 (Windows) or Metal (macOS) graphic APIs

https://www.wowhead.com/news=289041/...s-of-vengeance