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Prospero

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System Requirements?
« on: September 19, 2005, 01:26:00 pm »

Since I hadn't finished watching all of the demo movies yet, I tried to put the player onto my laptop, happily thinking that a P2 300MHz / 128Mb RAM machine should be able to cope with a text-only application without problems. But it ran very slowly, and I noticed you seem to be using graphical text tiles.

Any reason why I'm getting < 1fps in the player? Sadly this laptop likes to keel over and die at the very mention of OpenGL (and sometimes SDL) due to no hardware acceleration   :(


Edit:Aha, reading through the 'Back to the dwarf game...' thread, I see you are indeed using OGL, which explains things. Sorry, I'll pay more attention next time :P

[ September 19, 2005: Message edited by: Prospero ]

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Toady One

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Re: System Requirements?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2005, 04:27:00 pm »

It's true that the player used OGL, but I've maintained the option to switch to regular old Curses in the actual game.

Edit:  That said, I'm not sure 300 MHz is enough.  It does an intense amount of thinkage in real time.

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