[Luis Dias]

I wonder if possible to add a option to the launcher to automatically set the affinity to both cores.

Well, if the FSO engine can't be multithreaded, I'd say this is the next best thing.

...even if the results are negligible on higher-end systems

As I noted in the 3.6.12 release thread where ShivanSpS asked for a flag as well. SCP will not add a launcher flag because we do not think it is stable. ShivanSpS seems to think it is stable, .12 may in fact not crash all the time anymore.  Personally I have not tried since .10.

 However as I outlined in the other thread, FSO does have a mechanism to change the affinity if you want to experiment.

Ah, I see. And it seems that if sufficient stability is ever attained, most systems will, by that time, be equipped with CPUs powerful enough to mitigate the positive effects of resetting core affinity. Still, it's an interesting concept.

But will future CPUs be "powerful enough", or is the progress being actually driven towards multiple cores each with the same performance?

Notice, this actually makes sense, since it provides good response times for multitasking, and is more power efficient. There's also the point that for many applications, "current" CPUs are already "good enough". And for future intense applications, multithreading will be used anyway.

[ShivanSpS]

E-350, C-50 and Dual core Atoms with nvidia gpus are definitely not powerfull enough...

Next AMD APUs are a new Zacate, an E-450, it also includes turbo core 2.0, so single core performance its going to be better, yet i don't think it will be good enough. Others APUs are Llanos, derived from Phenom 2, so those are more than enough for FSO.