Is it worth it?

[Void Dragon]

I run a x64 Intel i7-4700mq @ 2.40GHz + Nvidia Geforce 765M + 16gb ram on Win10

[Resident Asswhole]

I have tested the hell out of CPU Cores and I noticed a 5~10 FPS incease in most games. I did however have a 30% FPS incease while playing No Man's Sky, which was HUGE. In some games I found hardly any gains from the program, so your milage will vary.

System:
Intel i7 870 @ 3.0Ghz
16 Gigs of RAM
Nvidia 960 with 2Gigs of RAM
Disk Hard Drives (Non SSD)

The system was originally purchased in 2010, so it is old by todays standards, but oddly enough it still plays everything I want to play at acceptable framerates.

[Shiboh]

I don't notice any difference whatsoever. I get no extra frames and no less cpu usage. Could be because of my i3, maybe it's just not compatible or something. But I can't speak for everyone, as R13 stated he noticed variable differences in different games. You'd probably get the same if not better results just prioritizing things in task manager. The only thing I really paid for in the end was to turn hyperthreading off whenever I start a game, but most games have console commands to disable hyperthreading anyway

[Shiboh]

But even so, your pc naturally throttles all of its usage to the application that requires the most power. Especially when running games in full screen or windowed fullscreen, your pc will recognize that you are playing a game and throttle background and OS applications to give you the most optimal experience. So I don't exactly know what this tool is supposed to do, technically. I wish they had a more in depth tutorial on how they say they achieve better cpu optimization with CPU cores. It doesn't make sense that it just "constrains and isolates the operating system" as your pc should already be doing this when running 3d apps, or any app with a heavy load.

[🆂tartup🆃im]

Originally posted by R13-The 2nd Type:

I have tested the hell out of CPU Cores and I noticed a 5~10 FPS incease in most games. I did however have a 30% FPS incease while playing No Man's Sky, which was HUGE.

You've said something that I have heard a LOT of feedback on, in that CPUCores helps a lot with open-world games. I'm not sure exactly why this is so, but I am guessing there is some sort of component developed into game engines with regards to open-world designs that somehow is related, and for whatever reason, CPUCores seems to benefit that.

PUBG for example is easily the most used game CPUCores helps with. I've seen a LOOOOOOT of feedback with PUBG, especially in the Chinese CPUCores community (PUBG I believe is like 3/4 Chinese players).

Also, a while back, a lot of users used Skyrim with CPUCores. Skyrim, with it's SKSE manager, is actually the reason why CPUCores had an update to better support launchers such as SKSE (using Game Probe Detection). It was directly requested from the Skyrim/SKSE (as well as Fallout/F4SE) community

[Godtactics]

The only way to know is to test out CPUCores. I get 5-50% more fps depending on the game and the settings I choose, on an i5 2500k paired with a GTX 970 in games like The Witcher 3, Dishonored 2, Paladins, No More Room in Hell, etc.

Paladins is the one with a 50% (At least 50%) fps boost for me, which is unreal. From around 120 minimum fps to 200 minimum fps, with similar increases at average fps.

[Void Dragon]

I ended up finding a different but very similar program, for free. Turns out that my GPU is the limiting factor for most of my games, my CPU is fine since it usually sits at 1% when not gaming, or when I tested it out with gmod, I got 20% when its maxed out with things going on at its peak. Games like Skyrim that have a open world with supposedly obvious gains, its highest noticeable peak was around 40% even with mods.

I dont think ill need either program until its final few years, mayble.

[Chronverge]

loading times and minimum fps for no man sky, witcher 3, FO4 and ark have massively improved for me using this software. my cpu and ram are also from 2010.

1st gen i7 860 @ 2.8ghz
gtx 970
16gb ddr3
win10

[BlueLightning]

some user reporting 10-12 fps increase (from 80s to 92s) in PUBG
i tho, getting some FPS gain in some gains, GTA V bye bye stutter, and uhm, it does boost some other game too.

tbh less power to OS = more power to game, depend your cpu, OS, and the game demand, but cpu cores buy you cpu breathing room, so yeah, its