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[oso]

So I have a fairly decent computer, 4gigs of ram, i3, 9800gtx+ I have an 85ish sized fort with running water and channeled magma. I cap my fps at 50 so it's not such a huge disappointment later when it drops, and also because I like that game speed in general. I just tapped an aquifer and my FPS dropped to 45. Are there any ways to tap and use aquifers in an FPS safe manner? For instance could I tap it, then cave it back in to seal it and recover my FPS? Or is it pretty much game over once I tap into it? My FPS was at 45 with the single tapped tile filled to 7/7 and nothing flowing from it.

-oso

[Passive Fist]

I've never tried it (so why am I posting) but if you cave it in the water stops flowing. Try it for SCIENCE!

[oso]

Science it is then! I'll post back later but it might take me a while (I don't cave things in often so I'll probably have a lot of fun before I get it right).

-oso

[oso]

I failed at science and flooded my fort... Also I just discovered I have two layers of aquifers. I'm just going to save scum and pretend I never tapped the aquifer in the first place.

Science fail...

[Valguris]

Wait!
So aquifer drains my FPS even if there is no flow at all? Even if every accessible tile is filled 7/7? So that's the thing that made my FPS many times slower than it should be?

[Dorf3000]

I'm guessing that you dug into the first aquifer with an up/down stair.  I think (90% sure) that the down stair part acts like a hole into the lower aquifer, and water landing on the tile will be absorbed into it.  But then you have the upper aquifer filling it every game tick...