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Dwarf Fortress adds experimental multithreading support (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tochee to c/[email protected]

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In this release, we're updating the engine from SDL to SDL2, and there are many optimizations to go along with it. Aside from the optimizations, SDL2 is also the stepping stone to ports. We have Linux compiling and playable; it just needs some testing.

Moreover, there is now a(n experimental) multithreading option in the game settings that makes the game even faster!

We also have some new individual tree graphics, and an update to grass ramps as well.

This has been mostly the hard work of Putnam! Meanwhile I've started up on adventure mode - the long work of updating menus and adding audio has begun! Hopefully we'll have some progress to show their soon, as we continue updating fortress mode as well.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

a decade too late

It's amazing how quickly important performance and QoL features get development priority once there's money on the table, isn't it?

Not that I'm complaining. I tried DF multiple times over the years and always bounced off, it's the mouse-driven interface that's made the game playable for me. Multithreading is great to see too. I'm excited to see what the future of DF holds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think it's money that is doing it, it's toady opening up the project. He's a great guy and made a masterpiece game, but he can't do everything. Commercialising the game was the impetus for him getting help, but Putnam in specific would almost certainly have helped him in this way any time had he asked her. She was doing free work for dfhack before, and has contributed to other foss stuff like CDDA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They hired a really talented programmer from the modding community to come in and make performance improvements. If you're at all interested in technical bits of Dwarf Fortress's development, checkout the update interviews they do on youtube here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What mods did she make before joining the team?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it's the mouse-driven interface that's made the game playable for me.

Funny, it was the keyboard only interface which makes me love the game.
I also still love the original character graphics, I bought the steam version to support the devs.