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[borderlands]

I was working on a humie-style above ground fortress in Dwarf mode when my normally rather intelligent miner died in a cave-in caused by his own lack of foresight. Since the fort was in its early days and I no longer had a mason, I let his body sit there for a while.

To my surprise and delight, he came back as a ghost. This is when I noticed that my framerate would get sudden dips, going so far as to freeze for several seconds at a time before resuming. I had suspicions that this was linked to the ghost so I quickly made several coffins and finally put the tormented miner to rest. The problem was solved.

I've searched around a bit and can't seem to find anyone with a similar problem. Before I go submit a bug report, I'd like to know whether anyone else has encountered such a problem. It could be that I had some application or other open at the time. I'm not entirely positive the lag was caused by the ghost, but it went away as soon as the body was placed in a coffin.

I'd appreciate any comments. I would post this in the Bug Reports forum, but I can't seem to make new topics there.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I think some ghosts try to spawn/path to where they died, if he was buried in a cave in this my have caused errors.

[borderlands]

Yeah, he did die in a cave, but he wasn't encased. Besides, the ghost seemed to have no difficulty moving through the walls and hovering around the body. It could travel far enough to reach my starting area and haunt one particular woodcutter that annoyed him in life.

Edit: Also, I just noticed that this thread has been mistakenly posted in the Suggestions forum. If someone could please move it to the Gameplay or bugs forum, I'd be grateful.

[Jay]

Last I checked, anybody could move their own thread from the bottom left of the page.

However, also the last time I checked, the bug forum is closed.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

You may wish to move it to the df general discussion page.