cpu or gpu?

[Montezuma's Revenge]

i know this game uses cpu power but will it ever use gpu power on steam?

[True Guesser, Wand Bearer, etc.]

Nothing significant by modern standards. Even onboard graphics could handle sprites.

[ximslammin]

a toaster will be able to run this game.

[SedrynTyros]

Originally posted by Paladin:

a toaster will be able to run this game.

A toaster GPU, sure, but the CPU demands are quite high. It eventually becomes one of the most CPU demanding single-threaded games in existence. If you have an older CPU with a slower clockspeed, Dwarf Fortress is going to bring it to its knees once your fortress gets enough occupants.

[UntrustedLife]

Originally posted by SedrynTyros:

Originally posted by Paladin:

a toaster will be able to run this game.

A toaster GPU, sure, but the CPU demands are quite high. It eventually becomes one of the most CPU demanding single-threaded games in existence. If you have an older CPU with a slower clockspeed, Dwarf Fortress is going to bring it to its knees once your fortress gets enough occupants.

This ^ It is not only simulating your fort it is simulating the whole world as you play. So a toaster wouldn't do :P

[CuriousKey]

I would severely doubt that DF will ever significantly utilise GPUs. It's currently CPU-bound (clockspeed is important, number of cores essentially irrelevant).

If you have a decent single-core clockspeed on your CPU, you should be fine. And pretty much anyone can play the game fine so long as they set up their game correctly (small world, small embark, low population etc, depending on power of computer).

[Carniflex]

Technically it kinda uses "some" gpu resources. But ... no .. its all about CPU. Maybe one day, but that day is not today.

However, given the steamworks implementation it would not surprise me to find a more "proper" gfx overlay some day in there as a mod for the game.