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[Tormy]

right now I'm running at about 4 fps, with 210 dwarves on a 6x6 map, with about 120 animals

Holy cow! Advancing one year in DF must take a lot of time for you. 

[Draco18s]

right now I'm running at about 4 fps, with 210 dwarves on a 6x6 map, with about 120 animals

Egads.  I was down to 12 at one point and thought THAT was unplayable (by the way, that was at embark).

[andrea]

210 dwarves, most z levels used, brook (dammed) and flowing aquifer pool (used to drain the river. it is big.).
i run at 17 to 22 FPS, and it start being too slow. can't use partial print at default settings, unluckly. any suggestions about that?

[Soralin]

Holy cow! Advancing one year in DF must take a lot of time for you. 

Yeah, I've mostly been letting it run in the background, Checking back now and then to add another level to my water tower when it was building, or waiting for a siege to I can run my flooding trap (which actually brought my displayed fps down to 0 last time I tried it. )  It has about 45 million wealth, and I have about 40000 prepared food and drink (I overestimated how much food those tiny little farms can make), oh and 10000 tiles worth of underground tree farm (making the barrels for all that food takes a bit of wood, not to mention fuel since I don't have magma, but I've picked up a bit of that by carving all through the sedemantary layers for fuel too, and all the above ground tree harvesting.)

Although now that I've cleared out some of the water from underground, and refilled my waterfall lake again, it's back up to 6-7fps

I uploaded it here http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-3744-whipcaught  Oh yeah, and my engravers ran out of work, so they ended up engraving a lot of the landscape.   And the big muddy area in the southwest is the aftermath of the first succesful test of my flooding trap, which killed most of 2 squads of goblins, a fisherdwarf, and my fps.

[Random832]

I get 100 with PARTIAL_PRINT, 25-30 without, and I've capped it at 50.

[Philosophical Gamer]

With my current fort of 150 dwarves, it's generally right at 30FPS, unless a group of 40+ goblins show up, in which case it goes down to 15FPS or so, which isn't so bad because it's nice to have it a bit slower during all the bloodsplattering and general lamentations.  I have one of the piddlier Athlon X2's, and 4 gigs of RAM, before I got this computer it wasn't really playable with 90+ dwarves.  Now I just run DF in the background mostly until a siege shows up or something else that's interesting happens.

Once a fort hits its 5th season or so it gets pretty normalized with not much left to build, I'm not really into going into huge building projects, it's all about building up the military - once the army arc goes in fully the strategy will be useful, for now it's just fun to see how elite the squad gets.

I never have gone after adamantium though, that could make it interesting in the later game.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Don't worry about voting now because you just started, I set up the vote so you can change your's so that you don't have to come up with an absolute average of every fortress you have done.

Most people seem to hover around 30-20 FPS but I wanted to make sure that this isn't volunteer bias.

i dont see how you change it (and i will need to, becouse 150 in my nano fortress in the begining is just too naiv that it will stay ...)