Is Age of Empires a multithreaded game

[Dhruv]

I have recently purchase a new Core 2 Duo machine with latest graphics cards on it. As i'm a big lover of games and would like to know that is Age of Empires a multithreaded game. I'm wondering if the game will be able to take advantage of processors with multiple cores. Does any body knows about it? Kindly suggest me your views on the above issue.

[Ninja-X]

According to me as you had purchased a new Core 2 Duo machine with latest graphics cards on it, you will be able to play any game on it. Yes, Age of Empires is a multi-threaded game and it would run smoothly on your system.

[Hitman22]

Age of Empires might be able to take advantage of your Core 2 Duo machine. Also any game based on the unreal engine 3 might be having multi threaded enabled. Graphics drivers are also dual core enabled now so native support for games should grow a lot this years and by the end of it most games will be able to use multiple cores.

[Mr. Boo Bear]

Hey if you want, you can check out the following list which will give you the list of multithreaded games:

• Age of Empires III
• Black & White 2
• Call of Duty 2
• City of Villains
• WOW
• TES4:Oblivion
• Bioshock
• GRAW1+2
• Supreme Commander
• Quake 4(with update)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Microsoft Flight Sim X
• Rainbow Six: Vegas
• Stranglehold

I just want to point out, that most games are multi-threaded, but the 90% of the power is always on 1 thread, then the other 10% gets distributed around elsewhere. That's the way (almost) all PC games are made. There are a few exceptions, and I'm sure BioShock is true MultiThread, but it's a 360 port, which is a multi-threaded conosle.