Dual Core support

[Anonymous]

A simple wish, for ArchiCAD to support dual core. It would be good if section/elevation window generation used dual cores and the 3d openGL window.

Not sure about the extent of this technology but it would be good if one core could handle placed images and the other the drawing side. Whenever we place decent sized images into ArchiCAD it goes so SLOW. Mutliple images are even worse.

[Anonymous]

I agree with a little change, not Dual Core, Duo etc., but multi processor platforms.

[Paul King]

I absolutely agree - lack of multi core support is madness nowdays, when most new machines have at least 2.

[Thomas Holm]

The key is multithreading - if the application uses that, it's up to the O/S to divide the threads among the available processor cores.

[Aussie John]

This has been the subject of at least a couple of polls
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=64303&highlight=processor#64303

but what the heck this is essential!!!!!! Im voting again

What is the point of crippling my machine's speed on one the most processor intensive app I have on my computer.

I understand the coding is complex but even if just basis threading was used such as 3D generation and layout updating this might help.

[__archiben]

Aussie wrote:
but what the heck this is essential!!!!!! Im voting again

absolutely. 100%. essential.

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

core 0 for foreground window
core 1 update background windows
would be nice

[Anonymous]

SMP is essential. It is unaceptable to have a dual or quad processor(or core) machine and to see archicad using just a single one

[Anonymous]

I'm agree too

[Karl Ottenstein]

See a summary of related issues here:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/Multiprocessing?highlight=%28multiprocessing%29

Karl