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[KaelGotDwarves]

Asus makes a lot of things besides motherboards, they jumped on the netbook branding early and now build one of the best/most reliable group of netbooks, so yeah. They just aren't as well known for the monitors, graphics cards, servers, and other hardware as they are for their motherboards.

A lot of people in this thread could just chill a bit.

[riffraffselbow]

Asus makes a lot of things besides motherboards, they jumped on the netbook branding early and now build one of the best/most reliable group of netbooks, so yeah. They just aren't as well known for the monitors, graphics cards, servers, and other hardware as they are for their motherboards.

A lot of people in this thread could just chill a bit.

yeah, don't quite get why everyone's getting so testy about this.
/has an Aspire One, loves his Aspire One, hasn't tried running DF on it but probably will on a 1x1 embark with temp off and 50 dwarf limit.

[ChairmanPoo]

It works on my asus. At times it slows down, of course, in particular during sieges. Otherwise, you can get playable fpss even with 70-80 dwaves. Embarking in aquifers instead of rivers helps (and I tend to do it anyway, as aquifers have more potential than rivers. Rivers just provide a permanent, limited income of water. With aquifers you can create and destroy water at will)

[bhelyer]

It would just run at something like 1 FPS on, say, an actual 386.

It's probably likely in the year of our Lord, 2009, 32 bit compilers regularly spit out instructions that will render the binary unrunnable on a 386. Funnily enough, I don't have a 386 to test, but I know Pentium II's often choke on modern executables.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I could lug out the old i486 dx

[Baughn]

DF is explicitly compiled to run on a Pentium 3. Anything less than that won't work.

So there you go.

[Shades]

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.

Would you mind letting us know what it's like mid game (say when you hit 60 / 100 dwarves)

[QuakeIV]

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.)

Dude, its not even that big a deal, go to hell.

You know what imma post a picture of task manager just to prove you wrong.

Average day of browsing:


EDIT: something about this thread is making everyone kinda moody...

[Kadath]

Ram usage comparison, yay

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

68Mb total with Firefox running

I'm on an Acer aspire one, and i get ~90 fps with 50 dwarves on a 4x3 map currently.

[Blacken]

ASUS makes motherboards.

Asus is one of the largest OEMs for white-label laptops in the world. A disgusting number of companies outsource product development and manufacture to them.

Unrelated: Laptops have this thing called heat that they generally can't get rid of very well, and that also tends to atomsmash performance.

Oh, oh yeah. I guess the 2.6GHz Core 2 in here's just burnin' right up.

Waaaaait...

No, it's not. Shock!

[QuakeIV]

Ill admit the 'asus makes motherboards' was absolutely absurd.

However laptops have shit cooling, like it or not.

They do run fine on standard settings generally speaking but they cant take much else and still get pretty warm after a bit.

Go ahead, bring it on.

[SirPenguin]

Laptops only have bad cooling if you block the vents, which admittedly is easy to do.

But what the hell is going on in this topic? My goodness.

[QuakeIV]

Laptops only have bad cooling if you block the vents, which admittedly is easy to do.

But what the hell is going on in this topic? My goodness.

I... I dont know...

Holy shit look at it though...

[Shades]

All I want to know is if it still works well with a lot of dwarfs mid game. I'm hoping the op is still following the thread despite the rantyness in it.

[QuakeIV]

All I want to know is if it still works well with a lot of dwarfs mid game. I'm hoping the op is still following the thread despite the rantyness in it.

Yeah me too.