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cgw
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help, is there any instruction on how to work with threads in order to use a lot of PC cores?
Can't find anything on multithreading.
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AGK is single threaded, I think this is a limitation of the OpenGL render pipeline but if you use C++ you can pipe out your AI and logic loops to a thread but the rendering must be done in the main thread.
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Please make a feature in Tier1 over streams that cannot be used with OpenGL.
I looked at Cpp and didn't figure out how.
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Its not as easy as that, any external threaded system would have to be tailor made for each app, if you must have threads you are going to have to learn C++, advanced usage requires advanced knowledge, no way round that I'm afraid.
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Quote: "help, is there any instruction on how to work with threads in order to use a lot of PC cores?
Can't find anything on multithreading."


AGK is single threaded and there are no functions to support multithreading.
Now it is possible to introduce threading via plug-in ... but it isn't possible in AppGameKit Script.
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Posted: 21st Sep 2021 20:08 Edited at: 21st Sep 2021 20:25
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this is all beyond me but i believe the Box2D implementation supports multi-threading which, i believe, does so without a dll while working on all platforms? see .../Box2d/Common?

i know that's not necessarily what's being discussed here but doesn't this imply that AppGameKit can, somehow, utilize multi-threading, otherwise?

then, and again, "beyond me", but i expected to hear more about this compute plugin. not necessarily on topic here but can't this accomplish at least some of what's being sought?
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Yes on the backend AppGameKit uses threads for physics and HTTP ETC just as we can use threads in our C++ or plugin code, Box2D does not draw, it tells the sprite class where to draw after its done its calculations in the thread so its safe to use in a thread, I would suspect much of the 3D stuff is in a thread or 2 as well

Problem is I cant just thread every agk function inside a plugin, give me a problem or situation and I can give you a threaded solution but something like this would need to be hand made to suit the project needs, there is no, and will never be no all-in-one generic solution.

Compute, yeah I never understood that one TBH, I can achieve the similar results piping to a plugin thread so I never gave it much of a look but looks like it pipes the logic out to the GPU, not exactly multithreading but it takes the strain off the CPU so it could be a solution, just need to learn HLSL, either way there is a language to learn I'd just go with C++
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