Help make DW2 better

The Galaxy Lives On! Distant Worlds, the critically acclaimed 4X space strategy game is back with a brand new 64-bit engine, 3D graphics and a polished interface to begin an epic new Distant Worlds series with Distant Worlds 2. Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

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elliotg
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Help make DW2 better

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Hi to all DW2 players,

You can help improve DW2 by running the test app below. This app checks the topology of your CPU and sends the results to us. This will help us refine how we handle multiple threads on different CPUs.

Just grab this app right here and run it.

Note that you do NOT have to screenshot or paste your results here. This is an automated CPU survey that will submit the result to us. You just press any key to exit.

If you have an AMD CPU, the metrics may be wrong, but the survey will help us fix that!

As indicated above, it will capture some CPU info that will help us diagnose the topology of CPUs accurately which will allow us to more correctly manage threads in the game while also giving us an overview of which processors to optimize for and more precisely how. :)

Thanks very much for your help!


Source code is available for review here for the curious.

Got a blue Windows protected your PC popup when trying to run it?
You might have Windows Defender warning you about it.
It's perfectly safe, but if you have any reservations, just don't bother.
Otherwise, you can click 'More info' and then a 'Run anyway' button will appear.
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Here's an example of the output you should see. You don't have to do anything else but "press any key to exit." You don't have to screenshot or copy and paste the text. Really, it's fine, just exit. :)
Here's an example of the output you should see. You don't have to do anything else but "press any key to exit." You don't have to screenshot or copy and paste the text. Really, it's fine, just exit. :)
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Lunalis
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Re: Help make DW2 better

Post by Lunalis »

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when the one dev of a spacegame you like also did stuff at some point for a different spacegame you like :o

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i guess we dont have to run this with dw2 open? just randomly whenever?
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elliotg
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Re: Help make DW2 better

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Lunalis wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:01 am when the one dev of a spacegame you like also did stuff at some point for a different spacegame you like :o
What can I say? Tyler is a busy man :D
i guess we dont have to run this with dw2 open? just randomly whenever?
No this is independent of DW2 itself. Just run this app straight from your downloads folder if you wish

Thanks
Elliot
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erazerhead99
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Re: Help make DW2 better

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I want to participate, but run the game on Linux. Anyone knows if its working through Wine or if there is an alternative program to retrieve the data that runs on Linux?
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mordachai
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Re: Help make DW2 better

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It did not wait for 'press any key' - but just disappeared after running (I briefly saw a display that looked like it might be correct)...

Oh, I see - it automatically closes if you don't do anything after a few seconds...
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