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[praguepride]

I don't know if DF even uses a graphics card

[Calhoun]

40d19.2's shader mode offloads alot of the graphical calculations to the GPU.

[jellow belly]

Put all animals into a tiny pit. No exit out of there, just a little pit, like a dried up pond works fine. They will continue to breed in there but stay confined and don't path very far.

about that, wouldn't cats just try to path to the nearest vermin and always fail. wouldn't that burden your CPU even more?

[Nether]

40d19.2's shader mode offloads alot of the graphical calculations to the GPU.

I've heard so, but also that it would not work on ATI-cards.

[Calhoun]

40d19.2's shader mode offloads alot of the graphical calculations to the GPU.

I've heard so, but also that it would not work on ATI-cards.

Well i didn't know you had an ATI card at first.

[Nether]

40d19.2's shader mode offloads alot of the graphical calculations to the GPU.

I've heard so, but also that it would not work on ATI-cards.

I was not attacking you
Well i didn't know you had an ATI card at first.

[Calhoun]

No, of course not, i just wanted to clarify. To make sure nobody was confused.

[Nether]

^^ Would be great though, once that all happens DF may finally speed up once again

Can't wait for dualcore/64bit support, although both will probably never be XD

[Calhoun]

Nah, Native 64 bit support isn't going to do much.

Multithreading, however, would kick-ass.

Still, in the end, the pathfinding code is just going to need to be improved upon, Bottom Line.

[Nether]

Nah, Native 64 bit support isn't going to do much.

Multithreading, however, would kick-ass.

Still, in the end, the pathfinding code is just going to need to be improved upon, Bottom Line.

Heh, maybe those two can go hand in hand?

I'm going to bed, see ya all later

[Calhoun]

Likely Toady will just improve the Pathfinding code.

Once that happens, Multi-threading support will be less beneficial.
The entire thing would have to get a LOT more complex before Toady would start workin' on Multi-threading.

[Scruga]

Put all animals into a tiny pit. No exit out of there, just a little pit, like a dried up pond works fine. They will continue to breed in there but stay confined and don't path very far.

about that, wouldn't cats just try to path to the nearest vermin and always fail. wouldn't that burden your CPU even more?

It doesn't matter if the pathing fails, the CPU will retry every step anyway, IIRC every step the program calculates your whole fortress. Putting the animals in a pit makes their pathfinding each step a lot simpler because there are no different paths to calculate.

[Mungrul]

Regarding CPUs and DF, I've recently swapped back to my Phenom based system for gaming from my Dell with a Core i7. The reason being that the Phenom-based system is running a better graphics card which just won't fit in my Dell.
I've noticed however that DF has really suffered, with it running noticeably poorer on the AMD system compared to the Intel Dell. After 40 or so dwarves, framerates regularly hitch up every so often, and the graceful lowering of framerate I got on the Intel as fortress complexity increased has a much steeper slope on the AMD.
It's frustrating, as for everything else, my AMD system outperforms my Dell completely and utterly, but DF just isn't enjoyable on it
Has anybody else noticed such a sharp difference between AMD and Intel?

[Asmodeous]

40d19.2's shader mode offloads alot of the graphical calculations to the GPU.

I've heard so, but also that it would not work on ATI-cards.

Which, I must add, displeases me with my 5870 greatly.

[random51]

Seems fairly unlikely that he'd have a dx10-capable videocard mated to a really old CPU. Not impossible, just not very likely.