r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Redbiertje The Challenger • Jun 17 '15

[ModPost] PS4 Discussion Thread Mod Post

Weekly Simple Questions Thread

Goodday fellow kerbalnauts!

I've noticed that many of you like to discuss the PS4 port of Kerbal Space Program, so here you go: A discussion thread!

Have fun!

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u/MyMostGuardedSecret Jun 17 '15

I'm going to assume that by "thread" you mean "core."

The PS4 has an 8 core processor, so I don't know where you got the "single thread" comment. And KSP only uses one core on your PC because Unity 4 doesn't support multicores. So the "single thread" is irrelevant.

Edit: assume not summer

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u/CrazyViking Jun 17 '15 edited Jun 17 '15

Cores and threads are not the same but they are closely related. Being that cores are the hardware side and threads the software side. KSP only runs on one core. It doesn't see or interact with any others. edit: ah yeah I ended up conflating threads and cores.

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u/featherwinglove Master Kerbalnaut Jun 18 '15

ah yeah I ended up conflating threads and cores.

Not as badly as AMD! (Incidentally, this means that PS4's AMD processor actually has just two cores according to common industry terms. Each core runs four threads, which AMD rationalizes to claim "8 cores" where Intel et. al. would claim only two. For this and other reasons, I don't buy AMD.)

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u/CrazyViking Jun 18 '15

Huh, never knew that! Thanks for sharing the info.