Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5

Author Topic: The Ultimate DF Rig  (Read 4132 times)

Gatleos

  • Bay Watcher
  • Mournhold... City of Light... City of MAGIC!
    • View Profile
    • Someone Sig This
The Ultimate DF Rig
« on: February 11, 2011, 06:40:50 pm »
There have been a few threads in the last year discussing the factors which most heavily impact Dwarf Fortress's FPS. Despite Dwarf Fortress being rendered entirely with ASCII characters, the incredible amount of calculations it performs can bring a modern gaming rig to its knees. The main reason for this is the fact that Dwarf Fortress is single threaded. Most high-end processors these days split their power between two or even four separate cores, meaning DF can access only a fraction of the CPU.

So I thought we should compile all the info we have here, in a single thread. What is the best custom gaming rig to play Dwarf Fortress on? I'll store all the info we manage to scrape together in the next post. BEGIN!
Logged
Quote from: shadowform on August 29, 2010, 03:05:49 pm
Think of it like Sim City, except with rival mayors that seek to destroy your citizens by arming legions of homeless people and sending them to attack you.
Quote from: Moonshadow101
it would be funny to see babies spontaneously combust
Gat HQ (Sigtext)
++U+U++ // ,.,.@UUUUUUUU

Gatleos

  • Bay Watcher
  • Mournhold... City of Light... City of MAGIC!
    • View Profile
    • Someone Sig This
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 06:41:43 pm »
*
Logged
Quote from: shadowform on August 29, 2010, 03:05:49 pm
Think of it like Sim City, except with rival mayors that seek to destroy your citizens by arming legions of homeless people and sending them to attack you.
Quote from: Moonshadow101
it would be funny to see babies spontaneously combust
Gat HQ (Sigtext)
++U+U++ // ,.,.@UUUUUUUU

Terrahex

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Bee's Knees
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 07:07:51 pm »
?  ???

Me no undrstamd
Logged
What do you think? Yes? No?

Max White

  • Bay Watcher
  • Still not hollowed!
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 07:09:52 pm »
I must have failed my comprehension roll...
Logged

dragonshardz

  • Bay Watcher
  • [ETHIC:PONY:ACCEPTABLE]
    • View Profile
    • Steam Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2011, 07:12:02 pm »
TL; DR: In this thread, we build a hypothetical super-rig for playing DF.
Logged

Capntastic

  • Bay Watcher
  • Greetings, mortals!
    • View Profile
    • A review and literature weblog I never update
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 07:14:29 pm »
Oh cool another thread that can be summed up with "You need a very good processor".

Edit:  *
Logged

forsaken1111

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • TTB Twitch
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 07:17:49 pm »
Logged

Capntastic

  • Bay Watcher
  • Greetings, mortals!
    • View Profile
    • A review and literature weblog I never update
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 07:22:17 pm »
A 60 inch HD plasma TV.

Oil cooling.
Logged

forsaken1111

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
    • TTB Twitch
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2011, 07:24:51 pm »
Oil immersion is such a pain in the ass... I've done two of those type systems now and they're just messy and annoying.

They do stay quite cool though.
Logged

Phmcw

  • Bay Watcher
  • Damn max 500 characters
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2011, 07:26:13 pm »
Hemm, no, it's not a stupid question. I think an overclocked phenom X2 would be the best choice for your processors, and I think nvidia graphoc card support opengl better. Not sure. I don't know how much your ram latency count and I don't think a better hdd would help you. All I could think for now.
Logged
Quote from: toady

In bug news, the zombies in a necromancer's tower became suspicious after the necromancer failed to age and he fled into the hills.

Capntastic

  • Bay Watcher
  • Greetings, mortals!
    • View Profile
    • A review and literature weblog I never update
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2011, 07:32:45 pm »
A mousepad with good traction, and a wrist support.
Logged

NW_Kohaku

  • Bay Watcher
  • [ETHIC:SCIENCE_FOR_FUN: REQUIRED]
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2011, 09:03:40 pm »
Mousepad?  What is this mouse you speak of?

Anyway, all I can say besides "really good processor" would be making sure you have the fastest memory access available.  The bottleneck on this game is that it just flat-out processes a huge amount of math equations on a huge amount of data.
Logged
Quote from: Alkyon on March 30, 2010, 08:00:46 pm
Personally, I like [DF] because after climbing the damned learning cliff, I'm too elitist to consider not liking it.
Quote from: Aslandus on July 27, 2015, 09:46:43 pm
"And no Frankenstein-esque body part stitching?"
"Not yet"
Improved Farming
Class Warfare

Capntastic

  • Bay Watcher
  • Greetings, mortals!
    • View Profile
    • A review and literature weblog I never update
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 09:31:12 pm »
You gotta doubleclick the icon somehow.
Logged

Max White

  • Bay Watcher
  • Still not hollowed!
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 09:34:20 pm »
I think something of this scale would be ideal.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Logged

[5th]Lupin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Since '04
    • View Profile
Re: The Ultimate DF Rig
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 09:40:40 pm »
All I know is don't bother getting a six-core for DF, it doesn't help much. First hand experience.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 5
« previous next »