Thread necromancy is the new spam!
Must attack where they least expect.

Well in fairness sometimes it helps, especially if its an answer to a questions I've been waiting two years on.

lol I would forget the question for two years lol

What? Another necro? I just can't leave you alone without you doing naughty things.

That wasn't the problem. The problem was I had uninstalled the game one year ago.

Why are you arguing with six-and-a-half years ago? Do you think nothing has changed since October 2008? GOG had just started then. In case you missed it, it's February 2015 now.

But it's still not optimized to work with single core CPUs, whenever I use it, the GOG downloader will hold my CPU usage at 100% and I wouldn't be able to do anything until the download finishes :(

1. How many years has it been since anybody even produced single-core CPUs? Expecting optimizations for ancient hardware is slightly optimistic, I think.

2. The Galaxy client (which will replace the GOG downloader) is on its way. They're not going to make any further developments to the downloader when it's about to be phased out.

You'd be surprised. Maybe not for the major PC market, but you can still get/buy 4bit, 6bit, 8bit, 10bit, 12bit, 16bit, 32bit processors, with full data specs and everything ranging from a few megahertz to gigahertz, programmable roms from several kilobytes to megabytes, to ignoring that and requiring separate RAM and a full motherboard.

Tablets and phones most likely use a single processor, the Raspberry Pi is a single processor (although recently they have put out one with more cores).

See the Mouser Store, although you may be more inclined to be a electronics specialist if you do. I've wondered about buying some of these cheaper chips for $1 per, and then running them together as a huge cluster. Naturally that's what a GPU effectively is...

Reviving the old threads?!

1: my phone is shite but has a dual core at least.
2: you are perpetuating the myth of newer users that somehow re-opening a thread like this on here is somehow useful
3: the info you have just provided would be better off in its own thread.
4: thats it. lets finish this thread here... FOREVER!

I didn't bring the thread back, and if somehow someone believes a processor is crap because it doesn't have multiple cores or that bad programming practices are okay because you have multiple cores just pushes technical problems on systems that shouldn't have them.

Honestly if the FDM has been updated and this problem is moot, then yes close the thread. If not, maybe it's worth discussing.


I can't help but be reminded though back when i did a lot more replies on AHK, and 90% of the questions and asking for solutions was so simple if they just read the instructions or looked over the basics in the help file. The same thing will happen here, even if the resolutions are stickied, people will make new threads asking the same exact question.

Damn i'm tired...

That's all well and good, but you completely ignored the spirit of the question, if not its wording. Let me rephrase: How many years has it been since anybody produced single-core CPUs for the sort of PCs that GOG targets? Seriously, who gives a rat's ass that washing machines and microwave ovens still use single-core processors when we're talking about the GOG downloader? If you're trying to download a GOG game to a kitchen appliance, then you have serious issues.

I'm sorry but if here in Good Old Games where most games have system requirements in the order of Pentium III, it is just not acceptable, the other software, the auxiliary software like the galaxy client, the GOG downloader and even the installer requirements to be for a dual core cpu. C'mon take a look at some of the product pages, they all state as a minimum at least 1.6 Ghz for CPU frequency, when the games itself were released, when the CPUs were below 1 Ghz, and here we are not talking about "new" HD releases, but for the same 'crapy', with excuse, graphics of the 90's, so I'm sorry for my hardline stance but GOG just need to invest in some developers that can do multithreading optimization for their packaging (the installers which have such ridiculous requirements because I suspect are limited by the IDEs which they are developed) and multiplayer and distribution software like the Galaxy client. Btw recently Steam got the same problem, because they decided to migrate their in-client browser and community areas in the client to flash which just increased the bugs and lag, but the bare functionality is still OK, and there is Origin which is surprisingly fast after the initial start-up so there is no excuse for falling behind the competition.

I wonder if that will run Galaxy -> http://ark.intel.com/products/75102/Intel-Celeron-Processor-1019Y-2M-Cache-1_00-GHz it's a new cpu, that will probably be the base for the future notebooks...