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[binhex]

Hey all, just thought some people might be interested my results on a netbook.

I just got an Asus eeepc 1005HA with an Atom n280 processor running windows xp.

After downloading 40d16 and messing with init.txt I was able to get great results. Basically I set PRINT MODE to partial, and now I get 70-100fps full screen (on a 5x5 fortress).

To make things a bit more legible I switched to using the http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Tileset_repository#Lord_Nightmare tileset (thin variant).

Hope this helps some people out.

[HideousBeing]

I tried getting it to work on my Acer aspire one... failure. I might try again and turn stuff like temperature off; I didn't really try that hard to get it working.

[KaelGotDwarves]

How many dwarves and animals though?

100 fps with 7 dwarves isn't that impressive once you get to 80 and it becomes like... 5 fps...

Let us know as you fortress grows

[QuakeIV]

Wow im getting the exact same netbook, and was guna try the same thing!

(im getting the win7 model though)

[Jay]

Netbooks have crap for processor power.
100 fps on a 5x5 on EMBARK isn't spectacular in the slightest.

I'd be willing to bet that it will slow down immensely as soon as something actually starts happening.

[QuakeIV]

Well with the upgrade to 2gb of ram, thats bound to help with me.

[Blacken]

Well with the upgrade to 2gb of ram, thats bound to help with me.

Dwarf Fortress is not significantly RAM-bound on any remotely recent computer. Learn how a computer works before making such assumptions.

[Scope]

Downloaded Dwarf Fortress on my Asus and it was crawling through the intro of the game so i said fuck it (didnt have time either).

Im getting a laptop with some proccesing power soon so im sure i will have my Dwarf Fortress again.

[G-Flex]

RAM matters if the amount you have is low and it has to do a lot of swapping to keep it and background processes running. Upgrading to 2GB can certainly help if you're starting with 512 or something like that. Maybe not be a terribly dramatic amount, though.

[Sevrun]

I'm amazed it even worked on a netbook though.  I'd have never thought that would work.

[Jay]

I'm amazed it even worked on a netbook though.  I'd have never thought that would work.

It would work on any x86/x64 processor.
It would just run at something like 1 FPS on, say, an actual 386.

Downloaded Dwarf Fortress on my Asus and it was crawling through the intro of the game so i said fuck it (didnt have time either).

ASUS makes motherboards.
Identifying a computer by its motherboard does not help us in terms of determining how powerful it is.
Unrelated: Laptops have this thing called heat that they generally can't get rid of very well, and that also tends to atomsmash performance.

[G-Flex]

I'm amazed it even worked on a netbook though.  I'd have never thought that would work.

It would work on any x86/x64 processor.
It would just run at something like 1 FPS on, say, an actual 386.

Good luck finding a computer with a 386 that also has good OpenGL support.

[QuakeIV]

Well with the upgrade to 2gb of ram, thats bound to help with me.

Dwarf Fortress is not significantly RAM-bound on any remotely recent computer. Learn how a computer works before making such assumptions.

Not significantly RAM-Bound? Really? I honestly didnt know that.

The assumption that i dont know how computers work when your clearly stating i dont know how DF works is also a bit of a problem.


Your telling me i dont know how computers work when you arent presented any real data in that field.

I know perfectly well how computers work, including the fact that, i built my own computer, and its significantly more effecient then a manufacturer-built machine and that i know:

More ram at lower speed > Smaller quantity at greater speed

EDIT: Kinda dramatic response, and alittle mean-spirited, but it kinda threw me off balance for a sec.

[Blacken]

Ctrl-Shift-Esc

300MB?

OS takes up 100MB when it's deciding to be fat and lazy?

Is there a "netbook" (I hate that term) that ships with less than half a gig? A good-quality one that ships with less than a gig?

RAM isn't a significant factor. (Nor is it a significant factor in a lot of other "RAM-heavy" games; even Crysis runs out of things to cache pretty quickly.)

[sangui]

I'm amazed it even worked on a netbook though.  I'd have never thought that would work.

It would work on any x86/x64 processor.
It would just run at something like 1 FPS on, say, an actual 386.

Downloaded Dwarf Fortress on my Asus and it was crawling through the intro of the game so i said fuck it (didnt have time either).

ASUS makes motherboards.
Identifying a computer by its motherboard does not help us in terms of determining how powerful it is.
Unrelated: Laptops have this thing called heat that they generally can't get rid of very well, and that also tends to atomsmash performance.

ASUS also makes laptops, you should stop making such angry posts when you don't know what you're talking about.