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[TheFreshPrince]

I'm not very tech-savy, so besides looking at the lower right task bar (windows) and closing steam, I'm not sure what else I can turn off to increase FPS in Dwarf Fortress. I heard someone mention disabling WLAN and audio? How do I do this?

Any other behind the scenes tips for raising FPS are much appreciated.

[Orange Wizard]

If you have a multi-core PC, the OS should handle most things by keeping DF confined to a single core, and everything else confined to every other core.
Managing FPS is best done (usually) within the game itself, by limiting things like embark and world size, population, the number of items lying around, and modding out birds.

[TheFreshPrince]

Does world size have a noticeable effect on FPS, or just save times?

[Orange Wizard]

Both. With the latest update, the world is now simulated in the background of your fortress. Larger worlds lead to more stuff to simulate, more stuff to simulate leads to lower FPS.

[clownwolf]

Masterwork mod includes the Large Address Aware utility.

I'm not really sure if it works, but you can download it (mod or just the utility) and apply it your DF14 executable.

[They Got Leader]

What is the Large Address Aware utility? Care to link it?

[Minnakht]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/

[Paaaad]

Seems to me like having Youtube and other flash heavy sites running in the background can be a FPS drain...

[Necrisha]

You can always set dwarf fortress to a higher priority than normal, it will create a small fps boost. As well as setting the GFPS cap to 25-30 instead of 50. Watch your open spaces, dwarves will have pathing issues on especially wide halls.