ono@lemmy.ca to Linux GamingEnglish · 3 years agoDwarf Fortress: We have Linux compiling and playablestore.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squarelhxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 years agoHave they announced any attempts to refactor some of the heavy algorithms like pathfinding to take advantage of more than one CPU thread?
minus-squareAwwab@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoYes. I believe that they actually have some of that available on the beta branch right now. Putnam has also been adding support for gpu offloading as well.
minus-squareono@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoIt appears so: there is now a(n experimental) multithreading option in the game settings that makes the game even faster! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3655282771707693473
minus-squareCrypticCoffeelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoLooking forward to that. My game died an FPS death on top hardware. DFHack couldn’t save it. Couldn’t bring myself to invest again yet.
minus-squarelhxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoSame here. I really want to play fortress mode again; but, FPS death prevents me from enacting my vision. :)
Have they announced any attempts to refactor some of the heavy algorithms like pathfinding to take advantage of more than one CPU thread?
Yes. I believe that they actually have some of that available on the beta branch right now. Putnam has also been adding support for gpu offloading as well.
It appears so:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3655282771707693473
Looking forward to that. My game died an FPS death on top hardware. DFHack couldn’t save it. Couldn’t bring myself to invest again yet.
Same here. I really want to play fortress mode again; but, FPS death prevents me from enacting my vision. :)