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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Wasn't that because they expected single core with higher clock rates to be the future right around that time? So the game isn't designed to utilize multi core architecture and maxes out constantly on one?
gpt
Yup, they expected single core performance to be closer to 10ghz by now, but while core clocks have gone up they're only about 50-70% faster than they were in 2007, not 400%. Instead CPU manufacturers have increased the number of cores, and now pretty much everyone has at least a quad core CPU, which in 2007 would have been bleeding edge tech.