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Author Topic: The Perfect Computer to run Dwarf Fortress  (Read 28107 times)

Thief^

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Re: The Perfect Computer to run Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2012, 06:36:42 am »

Might be worth someone running a comprehensive benchmark of the effect of different RAM timings, particularly CAS (the main latency quoted) and 1T/2T.
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Re: The Perfect Computer to run Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #32 on: March 28, 2012, 06:02:02 am »

I use a Core i7 9200 (@2.66GHz, but overclocked to 4.0GHz) and 6 Gb RAM. It's more than enough to run DF even with an obsessively overcluttered fort of 200 dwarves. It does tend to "freeze up" and slow down when an excessive amount of processing needs to be done, for instance if you unforbid a door or mass-unborrow dwarves (with alerts for instance). All that simultaneous pathfinding brings anything to its knees. But for day to day playing, I have 0 problems with this setup. The RAM is easily overkill, but I need it for other stuff.
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Re: The Perfect Computer to run Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2012, 03:15:22 pm »

I really need to try DF sometime on my new-ish desktop.

2500k with a 4.9Ghz turbo, 8GB of 2133Mhz RAM.  The Latency on the RAM is not that great, at 11CL or whatever.

A normal Harddive, sadly.  Also a 470GTX.
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Re: The Perfect Computer to run Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2012, 01:58:06 am »

I really need to try DF sometime on my new-ish desktop.

2500k with a 4.9Ghz turbo, 8GB of 2133Mhz RAM.  The Latency on the RAM is not that great, at 11CL or whatever.

A normal Harddive, sadly.  Also a 470GTX.
i think you are good to go bro >__>
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