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Originally posted by A_Fey_Dwarf:
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Zardus what sort of CPU do you have, because my mate just bought a quad core with 2gb of ram, and even he can't run the game at that speed.</STRONG>
It's nothing that special: 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo, 3gb of ram, Geforce 8400gs (doubt that really matters for DF though). The only special thing is I'm running BBLean instead of Explorer as my shell. I run it to make my Windows environment consistent with my Linux environment, but it might have the side-effect of taking less resources than Explorer, maybe... I also tweaked init.txt, turned off sound and put the graphical FPS down to 15 (also thinking of turning off temperature, as there seems to be no point to it on a warm map). Also keep in mind that this specific map is a 2x2 with nothing special -- no freezing water, no running water, just pools of water sitting there and some dwarves. Whereas my old bigger map ran faster than this one at times, it ended up with the FPS in the crapper at 100 dwarves, and my FPS is actually staying pretty steady -- 80 dwarves now and still ~75 FPS.
Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I do have a ridiculous amount of crafts, stone, plants, and goblin crap sitting around. As I have no magma with which to dispose of it, it sounds like it's time to make the humans very very happy. Hope the sudden flood of free stone crafts doesn't collapse their economy...