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Author Topic: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark  (Read 9177 times)

C4lv1n

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I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« on: June 23, 2010, 12:37:41 pm »
I'm super cereal.

Here's my specs:
4gb ram :D
Vista 32 bit :(
quad 2.4 GHz processors
Don't remeber graphics card, but it's got 1024 memory

I'll tell you guys what happens.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 12:43:19 pm »
I'm gonna place my money on 8 FPS.  I'll take 10-1 odds on anyone willing to bet on a >50FPS embark!
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 12:58:09 pm »
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Hyndis

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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2010, 01:31:35 pm »
It might be manageable if you put your popcap down extremely low, turn off temperature and weather, have nothing flowing at all, but even then your FPS will be very low.

Its not impossible, I just hope you are very patient! Your FPS will be almost close to real time with a large fortress on a 16x16 embark. So you'll get traders once every September. IRL.   :o
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2010, 01:43:05 pm »
following this madness
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Helmaroc

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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2010, 01:47:35 pm »
I doubt it'll run...I'm running 2.4GHz Quad, Windows 7 64-bit, 6 gigs of RAM, and when I hit embark on a no-flow, no magma or anything location, it freezes and Windows tells me there was a Runtime error and the program terminates. Even with no other programs running. Tried it twice.

Here's what I get
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Trying without temp or weather...same thing.

But good luck!
« Last Edit: June 23, 2010, 01:55:38 pm by Helmaroc »
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2010, 01:54:19 pm »
It's not real if it doesn't have a goblin tower or three.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2010, 02:18:35 pm »
Ok, so I started it just minutes after I posted, and it immediately froze up, so I left it running and went to the store. I just got back and found that it was still locked up. For anyone that cares, I just started in a normal forest.

Yeah, it didn't work
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2010, 02:27:24 pm »
NO!

Get out from there, it's gonna blow!
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2010, 02:34:53 pm »
See if you can find the max size it will run on.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2010, 02:36:03 pm »
A quad computer wont help you anymore than a single core one. Dwarf fortress doesn't multithread.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2010, 02:41:31 pm »
everybody knows that, they're refering the ghz per core
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2010, 02:54:36 pm »
I've done this after disabling all the cavern layers and stuff, FPS wasn't too bad but game really started to lag when mining. I didn't go very far with it.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2010, 02:58:37 pm »
Its failing because DF can only use 2gb of RAM and a 16x16 embark requires more currently.  I tried it on my comp a while back.  It'll never work with the way DF is wrote right now.
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Re: I am going to attempt a 16x16 embark
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2010, 03:02:33 pm »
Was able to do 14x14, but beyond that and yes, it can crash.

I have an E8400 OC'ed to 3.6ghz, so I have 3.6ghz x2 to throw at the game. The game gets to use a full core by itself, with my OS and other background things using the second core. The framerate is playable, sort of, at first, but even with only 7 dwarves it is extremely slow. With a full fort of 100-200 dwarves it would be unplayable.
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