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[thvaz]

I have the feeling that my game is running slower than it should.

I have a Duron 1.6 with 756 mb of RAM and a geforce 4 MX 400 with 64 mb, and with music disabled  and with 99 dwarves in a fortress I can't get a FPS above 20. This is right? This is what I should expect whit this shitty computer?

[herrbdog]

Dunno if you should be running at that speed with those system specs, but honestly it's not the greatest.

My rig (am at work, so i forget some details):
p4 3.2 ghz HT
2 gb KINGSTON ECC ram
asus p4b800 (? i think) motherboard
ati 9800 somthing vid card (forget exact card) w/256 mb ram
10,000 rpm SATA hd
windows 2000 NOT xp (xp has too much overhead, for me)

i set my fps cap to 300

when i first fire up a new fortress, with only 7 dwarves, i get ~250 fps, with temperature and weather off. i get ~130 fps with them on. (im a caffeine addict so i need my dwarves acting the same way.) once i get about ~100 dorfs, it gets about half of that. with ~200 dorfs, it is about 1/3 of full speed.

just a point of reference.

[thvaz]

Thanks. It looks like my computer is the problem =/

[AlanL]

You could always just put up with time being slow. I play DF on a 750 mhz machine, and i still get a good experience from playing it.

[thvaz]

Yeah, itīs still playable, but it takes too much time for a year to pass after 50 dwarves.

[herrbdog]

Try turning weather and temperature effects off in the init.txt file. it nearly doubles the game speed for me. And your dorfs won't get frostbite!

[Gakidou]

quote:Originally posted by herrbdog:
<STRONG>Try turning weather and temperature effects off in the init.txt file. it nearly doubles the game speed for me. And your dorfs won't get frostbite!</STRONG>

If the outside isn't utterly inhospitable to life, what's the point of building a fortress? (Note to self: Freezing maps are too dwarf-friendly; mod in Wolly Mammoths.)

[Thom]

quote:Originally posted by herrbdog:
<STRONG>Dunno if you should be running at that speed with those system specs, but honestly it's not the greatest.

My rig (am at work, so i forget some details):
p4 3.2 ghz HT
2 gb KINGSTON ECC ram
asus p4b800 (? i think) motherboard
ati 9800 somthing vid card (forget exact card) w/256 mb ram
10,000 rpm SATA hd
windows 2000 NOT xp (xp has too much overhead, for me)

i set my fps cap to 300

when i first fire up a new fortress, with only 7 dwarves, i get ~250 fps, with temperature and weather off. i get ~130 fps with them on. (im a caffeine addict so i need my dwarves acting the same way.) once i get about ~100 dorfs, it gets about half of that. with ~200 dorfs, it is about 1/3 of full speed.

just a point of reference.</STRONG>

Where do you set your fps cap?
I'm capped at 100 and i dont see anything in the ini related to a fps cap...
(Yes i disable vsync when playing, because it cap DF fps at 60).

[herrbdog]

it's in the init.txt file, an entry called FPS_CAP i think (i am at work so i cannot check atm).

I do usually keep the weather and temperature effects on, i can just get about double speed with them off.

[Cabledude]

I wonder how well this will run on my dual core...

I haven't gotten to test DF on my new computer.

[John Hopoate]

quote:Originally posted by Cabledude:
<STRONG>I wonder how well this will run on my dual core...

I haven't gotten to test DF on my new computer.</STRONG>

It doesn't have dual core support, I checked the CPU usage graphs in task manager.