Multicore lighting?

[SpaceHamster]

Quick question: What is multi core lighting?

[JellyPuff]

at "multicore lighting", you can set the number of cores of your processor, which are calculating lighting effects.

off: 1 core
2: 2 cores
3: 3 cores
4: 4 cores

depending on your CPU model, changing this setting may give you better performance, worse performance or it does nothing at all.

[SpaceHamster]

So, it goes like this
The more cores you have, the better the games runs =/

[JellyPuff]

depending on your system, yes and no.

it's also more of a "technical-blah enthusiast" setting, besides to being a potential fix for performance issues.
for instance, you got 4 cores in your CPU and you have certain power saving features enabled, like " c-state" at your BIOS (because you want less temps in idle, your hugging trees or you wanna decrease your power bill) and everytime, your CPU isn't in use that much, it can shutdown some cores, depending on what specific power saving settings you have enabled or disabled.
now, if you'd disable "multicore lighting" and your PC can run terraria well with just 1 core, the other 3 cores can get shut off by your power saving settings.

so, perfect for netbook/laptop users to increase their battery life while playing.

[SpaceHamster]

Ah ok, so im better off with 2 cores xD Thanks!

[GAMESweetG]

I know this is a very old topic but. I have 8 cores in my laptop. I got it currently set on 8. But I've noticed my laptop has been overheating. Should I half it down to 4?

[SpaceHamster]

Very old topic haha :P

No idea, best thing is to try it out yourself. Haven't played the game in a while.

[Ladrien]

Originally posted by ▼ 🅳🆁 🅼ysterio ▽™:

I know this is a very old topic but. I have 8 cores in my laptop. I got it currently set on 8. But I've noticed my laptop has been overheating. Should I half it down to 4?

Not at all, your cpu will limit itself to 4 cores but put those cores at a higher speed when it feels necessary, best bet is to just let it be

[Xeno42]

so when i place a torch the game sometime drops down to 43 for a split second and then jumps back to 60. i find it wierd because my cores are running at 3.8 with 4(8 logical) prosessors. i assume its because my multicore lightnin is off.

[1Taco28]

so if I have 6 cores do I set my multicore lighting to 6?