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Author Topic: Pumping magma 120 z-levels up...  (Read 950 times)

petersohn

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Pumping magma 120 z-levels up...
« on: September 22, 2010, 04:21:46 pm »

...surely kills my FPS. Or is this not the pumping itself, but the moving of magma within the magma sea?
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Organum

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Re: Pumping magma 120 z-levels up...
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 04:24:11 pm »

Probably both. I've not had such an experience myself, but I've heard that moving fluids is detrimental to FPS. Pumps, too, probably due to the former.
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Re: Pumping magma 120 z-levels up...
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 04:24:40 pm »

It's the magma sea shifting combined with the spreading out of magma at the top of the stack. You could try this instead if you'd like your lag to be concentrated in a single event.
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Re: Pumping magma 120 z-levels up...
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 05:24:51 pm »

Oh, the magma piston. A dwarfier solution to magma woes does not exist.