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[Auning]

I'm curious about what hardware would effect performance. Things like RAM and CPU? Or is the lag inescapable from potential client problems? It would be very interesting to embark in a large selection without lagging like no other. If there is a line in a .ini somewhere to increase DFs performance by allowing it to use more resources, that would be very nice to know as well. Has anyone read into this?

[Couchmonster]

Ram up to 4 GB... some minor graphics card...
And all you really need for this game: Single Core CPU Power.
Get the highest CPU frequency you can get.
Multiple Cores will allow DF to get a dedicated core, which also helps.

[dree12]

RAM size is not too important (>4GB is good enough), but speed is crucial. Better than DDR3 RAM is necessary to avoid FPS death from items, because DF iterates over all the items every tick.

[LoSboccacc]

there are performances with a standard save somewhere on the forums, I think

if I recall correctly, the new core i5 & i7 line is doing great.

can't wait for the first ivy bridge chip to show up 

[thvaz]

My 2.0 ghz i7 with 250 dwarves in a 4x4 embark after 10 years is doing ok with ~70 FPS.

[Putnam]

RAM speed is by far the most important thing for performance in this game.

[Auning]

Ah, similar to what I suspected. Thanks for all the ideas, everyone

[BinaryBeast1010011010]

how can I assign two cores to DF and forbid everything else from being used on them? and will that increase fps?

[Rolan7]

It can only run on one core (unless the graphical stuff can run on another core... but the graphics are almost always a non-issue compared to the rest of DF.  You can test that by changing the graphical framerate in the init, defaults to 50).

Assuming windows:  You want to open the task manager, right-click the Dwarf Fortress process, and "set affinity".  Probably set it to run on a core other than the first.  Then right-click again and set the priority to "high".  "realtime" might be fine too, don't know.

This forces DF to run on a certain core, and be very greedy about using that core.  I don't know any other way to dedicate a core to a certain process ):