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I just wanted to make a list of games that support multicore CPU's. Some of them need special patches and/or optimizations.

Games that support dual-core processors:

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2*

Battlefield 2 Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains

Crysis

FarCry*

F.E.A.R (shows no practical difference in performance terms)

Half-Life 2*

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (dual and quad core CPU support)

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Quake 4 (needs a SMP patch)

Serious Sam 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R

Supreme Commander

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Movies

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

Vanguard Saga of Heroes

World of Warcraft


*= These games do not natively support dual core processors, but ATI cards (don't know about Nvidia ones) receive a small performance boost when playing this titles with a dual core CPU.

Feel free to correct this list, or add new games to it.
Regards

This is a great list - hope it continues to get updated.

Anybody know about SimCity 4?

It's about the only game I ever play, and I hardly play it. I'm just wondering how well it will do on my (soon-to-be-mine) Core 2 Duo (hopefully) laptop.

SimCity4 doesn't support dual core CPU's.... It's a game from 2003 I think.

Added the Crysis game to the list

I didn't know WoW was multi-threaded???

Even though I do not like WoW I still think it's good that it can get boosted using Dual / Quad core CPUs

Yes, WoW is multi-threaded. Not sure if it can use four CPU cores, but it can surely use two cores

What about Command and Conquer 3 and Company of heroes?

Dont like WoW either...

Supreme Commander.

Quake 3 engine is somewhat multithreaded too, so most games using that engine should be as well (in theory).

Thanks Mic, I added some new games to the list.

Regards

All UT engined games are mt far as I know. There's a list of mt games at 2cpu.com in the games section you can check out.

Thanks for your valuable input Blakhart, I will check it out.

How come they only use 50% or less of my dual-core CPU then?

Open task manager and select processes/view/select columns and check the thread count box. When the game is running look at the thread count.