DF does massively complicated and computationally expensive simulations. It eats CPUs alive. How it shows those results (ascii, tile pack, etc) has nothing to d

DF does massively complicated and computationally expensive simulations. It eats CPUs alive. How it shows those results (ascii, tile pack, etc) has nothing to do with it - it isn't GPU-bound the way just about every other game is, because it's as much a simulation as a game.