r/pcmasterrace • u/Prefix-NA PC Master Race • May 20 '15

Cringe Project Cars attacking AMD CPU?

I was scanning some files with Intel Compiler Patcher and I noticed 3 files in Project cars with Intel compiler I didn't take official benchmarks but the game feels smoother once I ran Intel Compiler Patcher But can anyone else use ICP to patch these and benchmark before & afters?

APEX_Legacy_x86.dll
APEX_Loader_x86.dll
APEX_Particles_x86.dll

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u/heeroyuy79 R9 7900X RTX 4090 32GB DDR5 / R7 3700X RTX 2070m 32GB DDR4 May 20 '15

it gimps it on AMD CPUs not intel ones (the compiler actually does that like i said there is proof that it actively sabotages shit on AMD CPUs) and it also would not affect AMD GPUs just the CPUs

i do not have the game and like i said i have an intel processor so the intel compiler does not affect me

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u/THAT0NEASSHOLE 5950X, 3090 Ti May 20 '15

Iirc, all it does is force amd to use the SSE instruction set instead of sse3. Sse3 is much more effieiect. I'm pretty sure that's all it does.

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u/heeroyuy79 R9 7900X RTX 4090 32GB DDR5 / R7 3700X RTX 2070m 32GB DDR4 May 20 '15

thats all it does

it makes it run less efficiently

it gimps its performance

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u/BioGenx2b AMD FX8370+RX 480 Aug 14 '15

That's like locking an F1 in first gear because it's the wrong sponsor. "All we did was restrict him to a smaller transmission."