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tilly

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I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« on: January 31, 2012, 12:12:29 am »
How good of a computer is needed? (Ex. how powerful of a processer. Does such a processor exist?)
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 12:30:30 am »
How good of a computer? Yes. The answer is yes.

I doubt such a processor exists. It would have to be extremely powerful, and probably unfeasibly expensive as a result.

The problem might not be just the power of the processor, though, as I've heard several reports of people getting crashes if they tried to embark on max-sized maps. That shouldn't happen if it's just a matter of power; their slower processors should've been able to calculate the map, just slowly, so it might be a problem with allocated memory or something like that that makes it totally impossible to embark on a 16x16 map with the current DF program's framework.
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 12:34:38 am »
Hmm I see what you're saying. It seems like an isolated case though. I just embarked on a 16x16 and it took awhile to load but did. No crashes. However, only time will tell when it comes to lag and such. I bet Toadyone is proud to have made a game that can easily exceed modern computing power. At this rate computer technology will be struggling to keep up with him. Dats badass. ^_^
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 01:28:14 am »
The problem is, with a 16x16 embark, you'll soon run into RAM issues as more and more entities end up on your map.
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 01:32:56 am »
Eh.. Considering it exceeds it due to bad (though to be fair at the time perhaps unforseeable) programming with regards to multithreading I don't know if its something to be proud about.. Not ashamed mind you (he started this ten years ago) but not 'proud'. 
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 01:40:28 am »
Yeah. I wouldn't really take that angle on it. Anyone with even the most basic knowledge of programming can write a trivially small program that "easily exceeds modern computing power." Giving a computer more nonsense than it can handle isn't difficult.
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 02:44:29 am »
well a 2 Z level big 16*16 embark migth work i think ... it is not that big ... but don't include caves or too much sky
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 02:53:57 am »
There's that 4GHz single core intel server chip. Maybe it'd work.
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Re: I want to play a fort on the biggest embark site possible.
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 02:56:20 am »
Quote from: rephikul on January 31, 2012, 02:53:57 am
There's that 4GHz single core intel server chip. Maybe it'd work.
It must be a behemoth.
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