Post by: Master on July 27, 2020, 02:02:19 pm
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169186.0
Ever since the steam announcement I've been getting back into DF and RimWorld. But for the most part I generally play while watching something on netflix or listening to a podcast. But I want to shift from my computer room to the couch to spend time with my wife while she watches stuff.
I tried using my wife's ipad and Mifki's remote fortress ap but that really does not do it for me... Plus, I sometimes have to go out of town to job sites for work so it would be nice to run the thing locally on the machine.
So we are back to the age old question... whats the best/cheapest laptop for dwarf fortress. Needs a fast single core clock speed plus 16gb of ram and a large cache size? Is there really anything else needed?
Anyone have a laptop that DF runs well on?
Post by: Jundavr on July 28, 2020, 07:46:15 pm
For most, your choice of device shouldn't depend much on the specs or on the game, but on how you plan on using it/playing.
Some things to consider:
* Keyboard with numpad helps a lot. I can't imagine playing without numberpad, but if you don't care this doesn't really matter.
* You can generate worlds on faster/more stable devices, zip it, then transfer to your laptop. I keep a lot of worlds in a pendrive for playing in different places.
* Assuming you haven't already, read this guide on maximizing performance (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Maximizing_framerate). Changing your G_FPS configuration from 50 down to 20 or 15 is the most significant and the change in gameplay experience is barely noticeable (if at all). This is a must for playing in any device, for me at least.
Whatever you get should run DF just fine, as long as it's not busy running other stuff at the same time and the OS is well updated.
Post by: anewaname on July 29, 2020, 02:16:37 am
I know I am assuming Windows will take less than 2GB and that running other apps is unimportant, but what I mean is... don't get an older model because it has twice the RAM. Get the model with the newer mainboard and faster RAM. My opinon is that CPU single-core speed is important and CPU cache is important, but because DF will reside in RAM and because there is a constant switching/replacing of data in the cache, the rate at which data is transferred between RAM and the CPU will be the bottleneck.
Post by: Putnam on July 29, 2020, 03:03:11 pm
Post by: Iä! RIAKTOR! on July 30, 2020, 04:44:46 pm
Post by: T-362 on July 31, 2020, 12:51:33 pm
So we are back to the age old question... whats the best/cheapest laptop for dwarf fortress.Check GPD devices. Its a 'small' Chinese electronic company, and they make pocket-size laptops and similar devices with really good hardware inside and x86/64. Sort of expensive but way cheaper and more powerful than some Microsoft Surface.
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Post by: Moeteru on August 01, 2020, 03:55:22 am
I imagine any proper remote desktop software would work a lot better than a mobile app for playing DF.