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[Disruptive Idiot]

I just want to know, because it would be a compelling reason for me to upgrade to core2duo or whatever.

Yes, I'm serious, I would upgrade just so I can handle a larger fortress.

[Gakidou]

I don't think that would give you a bigger fortress, just one that runs more like basaltic magma than granitic magma.

(That said, even if the game is entirely single threaded, that would just mean that you could have one core doing your Fortress while the other calculates all the digits of pi.)

[Disruptive Idiot]

quote:Originally posted by Gakidou:
<STRONG>I don't think that would give you a bigger fortress, just one that runs more like basaltic magma than granitic magma.

(That said, even if the game is entirely single threaded, that would just mean that you could have one core doing your Fortress while the other calculates all the digits of pi.)</STRONG>

Heh, Earth Science.

Well that's what I meant. Being able to handle a fortress with more dwarves at a playable level of lag.

[Draxxalon]

As a guess, I would say that it is not multi-threaded at all (I havent noticed any real difference between my dual and single core machines that I use).

You may gain some performance from the new CPU because of 2 things:

1 - it's probably a faster processor
2 - a second core lets DF have one core, and the rest of the machine can use the other core.

[Lost Creation]

quote:Originally posted by Draxxalon:
[QB]As a guess, I would say that it is not multi-threaded at all (I havent noticed any real difference between my dual and single core machines that I use).

I've been monitoring Task Monitor while DF generates a new world. Never went over 50% CPU utilization. Since I have two cores, that supports your theory -- at least as far as generating worlds goes.

Spent a short time playing with the same results... nothing over 50%, so DF is most likely all single threaded.

[Gakidou]

You could play two games of DF at once, and not have either slow down the other! BRILLIANT!