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[10ebbor10]

Requirements to play this game flawless all the time.... well, we got a nice little computer here in germany, that should be able to fit your needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMUC

Well, technically, dwarf fortress is single core, so it won't run that much better then on your average computer. (Though this one can run 147456 copies at exactly the same time.)

Technically if you run it on STANDARD or any other print mode without "2D" at the front then it can run slightly dual threaded in the sense that the game runs on one core and the graphics/print portion runs on a second. So you can actually get some slight improvements with a two core machine (as well as being able to do things other then DF at the same time, like listen to music for example). With my Intel i7 I think about the highest I've ever seen it go was 117% (100 of 1 core and 17% of the second).

Strange, normally computers try to spread out Cpu tasks over multiple cores. Even single core programs can use multiple cores, but asynchronously rather than synchronously.

[pisskop]

If anybody cared my major probs turn out to be memory and (in other games) a piss-poor video card.  uped the virtual mem and formated the drive... now its significantly better... still no masterwork, however.  1month is not too long.

[Cruxador]

I thought DF was dual-threading already?

Not to my knowledge.
[/quote]I've seen DF using as many as five threads. The main program is still just one, though. The others are from graphical rendering stuff. This was part of Baughn's optimizations.

[Quietust]

Strange, normally computers try to spread out Cpu tasks over multiple cores. Even single core programs can use multiple cores, but asynchronously rather than synchronously.

All they do is schedule the process to run a bit on one core and then run a bit more on another core - if it ran entirely on one core and left the others idle, it could cause the CPU to generate heat unevenly (one core is super-hot, all of the others are cold) and possibly result in some sort of thermal stress that could reduce its lifespan.

[zeziba]

Requirements to play this game flawless all the time.... well, we got a nice little computer here in germany, that should be able to fit your needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMUC

Wonder if they would let toady generate a max size world w/ 10k history and max civ and no pop cap?