F.E.A.R. question

[DUSNOETOS]

I just recently started to play the original FEAR. Great game!!! and my main rig can play it maxed out.

My question is this: I have noticed that the game only utilizes 1 of my 2 CPU cores. Is their any way to force the game to "spread the love" and use both cores.

Also how can I check and see what my frame rate is in the game?

[necrokiller]

I don't think it supports Dual-Core. But heres what I found:

Taken from TWEAKGUIDE:

Dual Core vs. Single Core Performance in FEAR

FEAR has been touted in a variety of places as being optimized for dual core CPUs, so given my main system has an AMD X2 4400+ CPU, I thought I'd put this to the test. I did this in two simple ways. Firstly I asked the TweakGuides Forumgoers if someone had a similar system to mine, except with a single core AMD CPU rated at the same speed (2.2GHz), and if so, could they post their FEAR timedemo result running FEAR at 1280x1024, all settings on maximum possible (except Soft Shadows to off), 2xAA and 4xAF, using the 81.85 Nvidia Forceware drivers. Two single-core CPU users (TroyBoy and Bagman) posted their results.

Secondly, I opened up Task Manager, switched to the Performance tab which shows the CPU usage graph, set Update Speed to high under the View menu, and then launched FEAR and played through a short saved game in which I battled against a number of enemy AI in a fairly detailed room. I then quit and looked at the CPU usage history shown in the graphs.

In both cases, I found that using a dual core CPU seems to have no benefit at the moment in FEAR. My performance figures from the timedemo seem to be within a few % of users with similar (single-core) systems, while the Task Manager exercise showed that only one core is actively being used at 100% while the other sits around the 1-2% throughout.

If FEAR is optimized for dual core CPUs, it shows no practical difference in performance terms - at least none that I could detect. Perhaps this is because FEAR is heavily dependent on the graphics card and hence any boost to CPU usage is not going to make much difference regardless. Perhaps a 'dual core' patch will come out for FEAR at some point in the future to enable these optimizations. Who knows - either way you single core users are not missing out on anything.

For fps in game, use FRAPS: http://www.fraps.com/

You can also run the built-in benchmark to test your system.