[DeNeDe]

This might seem a weird question, but can HLDS use multiples cores/threads?
I have a 16 cores 32 threads cpu and i see the load from HLDS is only on 1 core and not using all cores/threads available
I'm using a Linux machine.

[fysiks]

This engine was written in the 90's. It's a single-threaded application.

[DeNeDe]

that's sad.. hoped it got updated at some point

[fysiks]

That will never happen.

[iclassdon]

While it doesn't support multi-thread. You can assign a specific core to the HLDS process. Read up on CPU affinity and as it pertains to your particular build of Linux. HLDS defaults on core 0.

With no multi thread support it wont offload to the others like your OS does. So what you can do at the very least, is to keep HLDS from being shared with the normal OS operations by setting it to an affinity other than 0.

This will free up some processing power for you HLDS. ( Best we can do here )

Once done make sure to renice the HLDS process so it takes processing priority over the affinity you set it to.

Hope you find this helpful.

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[AllMassive]

doesnt rehlds support multicore?
at least it looks like it to me on linux when server has high-load (80%+) and i check via htop....

[simanovich]

Originally Posted by AllMassive doesnt rehlds support multicore? at least it looks like it to me on linux when server has high-load (80%+) and i check via htop....

No it doesn't
It's the limit of the engine itself - GoldSrc is just too old