Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Pan]

Mac OSX: Spotlight indexes files on your mac. Since DF constantly changes files, spotlight will keep indexing them using 60-70% of your CPU. Exclude DF in system preferences: spotlight's privacy settings and you can get a factor of two in FPS. This can easily provide benefits of over 30 FPS, even on multicore computers that do not need to worry about CPU.

The 'Maximizing Framerate' page states this. I was rather ecstatic at the mention of FPS increase, but have no idea what this means. Can I get some help on this? I get the DF changes files part (switches folders in the saves and raws and stuff, yeah?) but I have no idea what the rest means. Spotlight indexes? Milticore computer? Huh?

Anyway, help will be appreciated. I honestly feel my biggest let down in DF is the forts having a rather foreboding expiration date at the top. Anyone thing DF will not keep having us die FPS deaths in the future?

[MrWiggles]

To disallow Spotlight from indexing DF as it runs, this is what you'll want to do.

Go to System Prefrences -> Spotlight -> Select the Privacy Tab -> Select the Add Bottom new the bottom Left -> Add the Dwarf Fortress Folder

[albatross]

Multicore computer simply means a computer with a processor that has multiple cores. Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

[i2amroy]

Multicore computer simply means a computer with a processor that has multiple cores. Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

Which are almost 100% of computers now days. Unless you are playing on some ancient laptop or something, you almost certainly have at least a dual-core computer. Doing this helps quite a bit though, or at least it did for me. If you are on a Mac OSX you should definitely do this.