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[William]

I'm currently running running version D12 and I find it difficult to conclude what mode is the fastest. There is partial printing, frame buffering and accumulated buffer. I keep trying to compare the bunch but the frame rates are being hard to compare.

[Danarca]

Set max FPS to 1 gazillion, and just open up to the menu.
Faster that way.

But partial print etc. differs with people I think.

[Baughn]

Of late, standard is sufficiently fast that you should have little need for the other modes. It's also the least glitchy mode, thus the name.

They're there mainly for those on old/obsolete hardware.. which makes me wonder why I even bothered implementing VBOs...

[William]

My PC never runs DF at a tolerable speed. If I make the maps smaller, I lack the proper resources, altering the rendering options I get a few FPS increases, but not much more. I don't hate DF, I just hate how it runs.

[zarmazarma]

Yeeeaaa... I'm concerned that my quad core drops from 300fps (what I have it set to) to 50 when I hit about 100+ dwarves.

[Corona688]

Yeeeaaa... I'm concerned that my quad core drops from 300fps (what I have it set to) to 50 when I hit about 100+ dwarves.

People keep saying 'quad core' as if the number of cores helps within the same aplication...  It means you could theoretically run 4 DF instances without much speed penalty, not that a single instance would get four times the speed.  There's a few things that can use more than one core, but not many!

[Deon]

Yeeeaaa... I'm concerned that my quad core drops from 300fps (what I have it set to) to 50 when I hit about 100+ dwarves.

Stop hitting dwarves, dude...

[ChairmanPoo]

Considering that I am running this on a netbook, I was more than happy when the new 40d13 let my fps up to 100 when I had 20 dwarves.

Now I have a hundred (I've capped it there, though I suppose it might be able to stand 10 more) and am down to 22-23, but still far better than before.

If anyone has suggestions on how to improve this further, I'd be grateful, though.

[Geofferic]

Quad core helps (not much more than dual core) because you can isolate programs on different cores.

For example, I am running DF on the fourth core, but I have little else on it - FF, Chrome, etc are all forced to the first 3.

[Mephisto]

Considering that I am running this on a netbook, I was more than happy when the new 40d13 let my fps up to 100 when I had 20 dwarves.
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Ditto. I was surprised at how quickly DF runs on my Acer Aspire One. The N270 is rated the same as my current laptop's CPU, but I read that it was optimized for power saving, rather than performance.