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[Goonka]

I can't find a tileset that fits my screen.
I have a crappy computer. 512 Megs of Ram. But it'll run DF well enough.
The main problem is my monitor. It's 1024 x 768.

I tried a few tutorials. Don't get me wrong, the game is fun.
But the tilesets are all scrunched up and look way too small.
I tried playing without a tileset, but I can't even play Nethack unless it has one.
I guess it's just a generational thing.

Oh well. I'll just keep reading Let's Plays and waiting until I get a new monitor, I guess...

[ungulateman]

There are some smaller tilesets on the wiki - I think the smallest is 9x9, but you should be able to find a good one for your computer. Try the Dwarf Fortrees Wiki's page on "Graphic Sets".

[Goonka]

I found a good tileset, but there's like, a good 6 inches of black space on the bottom of my screen.
I turned black space off and everything, but it still won't go away.
I wish it would stretch to fill up the screen.

Edit: Nevermind. That was just the title screen.
I'm finally on my way to enjoying Dwarf Fortress. Yaaaaaaay.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Try zooming with the mouse wheel.

[rephikul]

dwarf fortress default screen size is 80*25 tiles (1280*400 for 16*16px tilesets or 720*255 for 9px tilesets) Either way it will not fit on your 1024*768 screen. I suggest to change dwarf fortress's tile resolution in the init to match your screen

Default:
[WINDOWEDX:80]
[WINDOWEDY:25]

For 16px tiles you should use
[WINDOWEDX:64]
[WINDOWEDY:48]

For 9px tiles you should use
[WINDOWEDX:113]
[WINDOWEDY:85]

If you want to play windowed instead of full screen you also need to remove a few tiles on each size to compensate, depending on how large you want your DF display to be.

[ungulateman]

X and Y have to be 80 and 25 at minimum, however. Keep that in mind.

[nbonaparte]

put the values at 0 and it'll auto adjust.

[Jake]

You could always try playing without a graphics tileset, you know.

[calrogman]

512 MB of RAM?  Please tell me you aren't trying to run Windows on that poor machine.

[Organum]

512 mb of RAM is sufficient to run windows XP. Before I added another gig of RAM to this computer, it had less than that and worked fine.

[rephikul]

512 MB of RAM?  Please tell me you aren't trying to run Windows on that poor machine.

My modded xp box boot with 80~ MB ram usage. 512 is enough for most normal users. When's the last time you see a .doc larger then 100 MB?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Just NEVER try to run Vista on that much (As a matter of fact, just never run Vista)

[Lord Dakoth]

^This.

As for the computer specs, I'd be more worried about the processor than the RAM. DF isn't too demanding on the memory, but I have seen it bring many a mighty processor to its metaphorical knees. I wouldn't suggest running it on any less than a 2.0GHz processor.

[Jake]

I could pull around 10FPS on an Intel Atom (1.6GHz dual-core) with seventy dwarves and nothing turned off in 40d. If you can adapt to giving your dwarves their instructions and then alt-tabbing into Firefox or going to get a cup of tea while they carry them out then this is just the right side of tolerable, and this was before Baughn's contributions to the code so it's probably a lot quicker now.

I don't however recommend trying to run DF and Firefox simultaneously on less than 1GB of RAM, even in a relatively lean OS like XP.

[Lord Dakoth]

Meh, I survived running DF on a Vista laptop with 1 gig of Ram. I usually had a decent 70-80FPS at embark, and 10-15 with 80-some dwarves. I'm done with that laptop now, though. Say hello to MacBook <3