Nightdive says Dark Forces has been 'difficult to change' because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular

Zombiepirate, 6 months ago

Is it the only Build engine game that did this? I don’t remember seeing any significant performance/grapical differences back when they were new.

woelkchen, 6 months ago

Is it the only Build engine game that did this?

It’s not a Build engine game: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_(game_engine)

Zombiepirate, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Oh, cool!

It always felt like one, or at least I remember it that way.

Outlaws was the better game, IMO.

Die4Ever, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I don’t remember seeing any significant performance/grapical differences

CPUs weren’t multicore back then, this wouldn’t have been to improve performance really, they’d use “green threads” to conveniently run code with waits in it, and it sounds like they had a task queue of green threads