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[They Got Leader]

I believe that DF is a 32 bit process, which means that it is limited to only 2 GB of RAM. My computer has a total of 24 gbs of RAM on a trichannel motherboard. I was curious as to if somehow upping the limit of the RAM would help the system handle DF better. Is there a way to do this? Would this even help?

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My fortress recently had a dwarf have a strange mood that required silk. I didn't have any, so I pulled out my cheat sheet of reactions and changed one to produce silk:

[PRODUCT:100:10:THREAD:NONE:CREATURE_MAT:SPIDER_CAVE:SILK][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:15000]

That usually works to produce a couple threads that I can use for the mood. However, I popped it into the tan hide reaction, and suddenly... I have 30,000 silk threads. The game starts to slow down massively, and then pauses. I had only queued one "tan hide", which only should have produced 10 threads. The tanner left the shop, then the game stopped and froze. When it came back, I checked stocks and suddenly I have 100,000 silk thread.

The game saved at this point, so now I am stuck with 2-4 FPS and 100,000 silk thread locked in a workshop. Is there an easy way to get rid of the thread? Is there a way to destroy the thread? I have DFhack installed, but I am not finding a way to help out the situation. Does anyone have any ideas?

[LordSlowpoke]

consider turning on temp, obsidianwalling the workshop and dumping magma in it

all available from the liquids tool yo

[They Got Leader]

consider turning on temp, obsidianwalling the workshop and dumping magma in it

all available from the liquids tool yo

Can I then remove the liquid?

[LordSlowpoke]

you just have to set the amount to zero, although it might be a bit wonky so after you're done removing it rinse the area with level 1 water and hope for the best

[They Got Leader]

you just have to set the amount to zero, although it might be a bit wonky so after you're done removing it rinse the area with level 1 water and hope for the best

Well...

The game is churning. My computer is definitely running a lot of temperature reactions right now. Wish me luck.

EDIT: I left the game running with magma burning through the silk stack and it cleaned everything up. I washed the room with water and opened the room back up. Thank you for the help, as the FPS death is gone!

[Findulidas]

Shiet, it would hurt me to get rid of all of that silk. My dwarven greed. All those socks.

[Meph]

RAM is mostly needed for worldgen, and you can use the laa, the large adress aware patcher included in MasterworkDf or the Lnp to make it use more RAM.

It wont make the game faster though, you need a better Cpu for that.

[GavJ]

There was a thread somewhere where they determined that the best FPS after destroying things resulted from, in order of goodness, starting with the best:

1) Manual dump and atomsmash
2) dfhack dump to a location under a bridge then atomsmash
3) dfhack autodump destroy
4) In a distant last place, burning / melting stuff with magma.  Burning is probably more effective than melting, though.

[Meph]

Or you look at my signature and use accelerated df.