World of Tanks Update 1.4 Delivers Full Multi-threading Support

World of Tanks’ 1.0 Encore update dramatically changed the game, with the title’s new Core engine boosting performance significantly through the introduction of multi-threading while also offering new graphical options for high-end systems. 

After the introduction of the 1.0 Encore update, War Gaming realised that their implementation of multi-threading support was not optimal. Yes, the game offered a lot more performance than before, but it didn’t do a great job distributing game loads equally across a large number of CPU cores. 

With update 1.4, World of Tanks will receive support for a feature called “concurrent rendering”, which is designed to distribute both CPU and GPU loads more efficiency, producing a tangible performance increase for most systems, with War Gaming citing a performance increase of between 4% and 45% in the video below. The 4% performance increase came when the game was using World of Tanks’ minimum settings and the 45% gain was found in the game’s Maximum preset. 

War Gaming has stated that this performance boost comes thanks to a collaboration with their “good friends from Intel”, thanking the boffins of the blue team for their support in optimising World of Tanks’ renderer. 

Update 1.4 is currently available as a “Common Test” within the World of Tanks test client, with the update also bringing the game’s “Ghost Town” map back to the title as well as a variety of wheeled vehicles and balance changes. All World of Tanks players that registered prior to 31 December, 21:59 CET (UTC+1) can participate in this test.