[gameprogrammer] Re: What do the new processors mean for game programming?
- From: Alexander Whaley <awhaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:23:36 +0200
This may be a "naive/stupid" thing to ask but here goes anyway:
Can't dual processor chips be used to up the AI?
By this I mean:
A game has to do a certain amount of work to get the image to the
screen, the sound just right and player actions must be dealt with. This
happens nicely with current games. However, if an AI could be set up on
a different thread, which is not framerate dependent, then the game
could appear more intelligent. New orders might be sent to the "main"
thread every 1/2 second - 1 second based on the tactical info and the
game would be smarter. Theoretically (and I am learning still), the AI
thread, running on its own CPU, could have access to a different set of
data, thus clashes on resources may be minimised.
Is this a crazy idea?
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