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Author Topic: Increasing framerates.... through money!  (Read 3151 times)

Dekon

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Re: Increasing framerates.... through money!
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2010, 04:06:53 pm »
That's odd, since generally having -really- wide hallways, I always thought, was bad due to the increased pathfinding in those halls.
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Shades

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Re: Increasing framerates.... through money!
« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2010, 02:41:23 am »
Quote from: Dekon on April 29, 2010, 04:06:53 pm
That's odd, since generally having -really- wide hallways, I always thought, was bad due to the increased pathfinding in those halls.

Should do, but might depend on the weighting of an occupied square, if it's high enough to force a lot of backtracking along different paths it would increase the search space significantly. (This is all a guess, I have no facts that I've investigated into this)
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Kuraudo

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Re: Increasing framerates.... through money!
« Reply #32 on: April 30, 2010, 12:37:16 pm »
If you designate areas for high and low traffic, I am told that wide hallways soon become a godsend.
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Mephisto

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Re: Increasing framerates.... through money!
« Reply #33 on: April 30, 2010, 12:51:10 pm »
You don't want super narrow hallways, either. You'll end up with twenty dwarves crossing the same square. This is bad.

Also, RE hardware:
More than one core is good. A real (i.e. not integrated) video card is good. A real video card has its own processor and ram - the operations aren't done on your main CPU. Even though Dwarf Fortress may not benefit directly from a video card, everything else does. Everything else benefits - DF gets more execution time.

Note: my comments on integrated video cards are a few years old. The situation may have (but likely hasn't) changed.
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