[Austin Suggs]

My processor allows for hyper-threading, but I recently turned it off due to it causing stuttering issues with Battlefield 3. To anybody knowledgeable on the subject: is it worthwhile me turning it back on for Skyrim - or does Skyrim not support Hyper-threading?

[Chrissie Pillinger]

You already have a 4-core processor with impressive clock-speed. Hyperthreading would be an utter waste, 4 cores of execution for the game's engine is more than enough in Skyrim's case, and 8 virtual cores at half speeds or so won't make it better. And never forget that the more cores - physical or virtual - the more the overhead in synchronizing them all.

[Peter P Canning]

You already have a 4-core processor with impressive clock-speed. Hyperthreading would be an utter waste, 4 cores of execution for the game's engine is more than enough in Skyrim's case, and 8 virtual cores at half speeds or so won't make it better. And never forget that the more cores - physical or virtual - the more the overhead in synchronizing them all.

I'll leave it turned off for now then, thanks for the response!

[Lavender Brown]

I have a 2,3Ghz i5 2410m,
It's a dual core, should I hyper-thread?

[Gaelle Courant]

- the more overhead

Yep everything just said went straight over my head.

Haha nah not really but it would if I hadn't just learned how to build a computer so I can afford one soonish. I'm converting to the dark side..

[C.L.U.T.C.H]

My processor allows for hyper-threading, but I recently turned it off due to it causing stuttering issues with Battlefield 3. To anybody knowledgeable on the subject: is it worthwhile me turning it back on for Skyrim - or does Skyrim not support Hyper-threading?

I really like your name. I enjoyed that series quite a bit.

[Killer McCracken]

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