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DF General Discussion / Playing several fortresses at the same time.
« on: May 30, 2010, 09:38:31 am »
Hello,
am i the only one who either plays 2 fortresses at the same time, or one fortress and one adventure at the same time? I have a 4-core processor and as one instance of DF can't use em all, i just make more DF instances. Basically if i can run a certain fortress with 80-100 fps, i can ran 2 other identical fortresses at the same time, all at 80-100 fps. I guess the multitasking gets crazy when you try to run like 5 instances on a hex-core computer but 2-3 are manageable for anyone. I do believe even dual-cores can run 2 instances quite well if there isn't any crap hogging the resources in the background.
So usually i keep two instances running, one fortress and one adventure. When i give the dwarves some huge project to work on (dump ALL stones on ALL z levels... mine that WHOLE z level so i can start a underground tree farm etc etc) i go to the other window and break some limbs with my adventurer.
am i the only one who either plays 2 fortresses at the same time, or one fortress and one adventure at the same time? I have a 4-core processor and as one instance of DF can't use em all, i just make more DF instances. Basically if i can run a certain fortress with 80-100 fps, i can ran 2 other identical fortresses at the same time, all at 80-100 fps. I guess the multitasking gets crazy when you try to run like 5 instances on a hex-core computer but 2-3 are manageable for anyone. I do believe even dual-cores can run 2 instances quite well if there isn't any crap hogging the resources in the background.
So usually i keep two instances running, one fortress and one adventure. When i give the dwarves some huge project to work on (dump ALL stones on ALL z levels... mine that WHOLE z level so i can start a underground tree farm etc etc) i go to the other window and break some limbs with my adventurer.