ono@lemmy.ca to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoDwarf Fortress: We have Linux compiling and playablestore.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up155arrow-down1external-linkDwarf Fortress: We have Linux compiling and playablestore.steampowered.comono@lemmy.ca to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squarelhx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 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-up2·2 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-up2·2 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-squareCrypticCoffee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 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-squarelhx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 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. :)