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[utunnels]

Fortress mode counts 1200 ticks per day and 403200 per year...

So the game needs to run unstopped for more than 12 hours in order to pass one year.
I have been on year 564 for almost one week now.
 

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My fortress has a tower, so the possible walkable area is from around -20 to 148. I wonder if it will help a bit if I burrow my dorfs.

[PatrikLundell]

My experience is that the FPS tends to be considerably lower when your view is over ground, especially a few Z-levels above it. If you have some parts of your fortress buried, you might change your view there and see the difference. Also, if your FPS is lousy early on, you should probably give up and start anew, because it only gets worse. A small embark helps (I'm using 3*3: for various reasons I don't want to go smaller), and a pocket world should help as well.

[Brewster]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Maximizing_framerate

Wiki's tips on increasing your FPS. Or ask Santa for a sweet new computer.

[utunnels]

My experience is that the FPS tends to be considerably lower when your view is over ground, especially a few Z-levels above it. If you have some parts of your fortress buried, you might change your view there and see the difference. Also, if your FPS is lousy early on, you should probably give up and start anew, because it only gets worse. A small embark helps (I'm using 3*3: for various reasons I don't want to go smaller), and a pocket world should help as well.

 Usually I play with population caps. Until now I want a king so now I have 140 dorfs.
It is not always bad. Three times some HFS monsters/FBs sneaked into my fort and every time I closed the hatch just in time.

[Mechanixm]

If you're playing version .40 and you have over 100 dwarves, your FPS is going to slowly dip in to the single digits.  My i7-4790k overclocked to 4.6ghz can barely run 130 Dwarves at 20 fps. 

[sumusiko]

I'm at 90's with 100 fps with an i3..

[lethosor]

My experience is that the FPS tends to be considerably lower when your view is over ground, especially a few Z-levels above it. If you have some parts of your fortress buried, you might change your view there and see the difference. Also, if your FPS is lousy early on, you should probably give up and start anew, because it only gets worse. A small embark helps (I'm using 3*3: for various reasons I don't want to go smaller), and a pocket world should help as well.

Are you using TwbT? If so, does disabling multilevel rendering help?

[utunnels]

Smaller window helps a bit, actually. I can get around 11fps when the dorfs are not so busy.
I'll check if disabling multilevel rendering helps.

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I shouldn't have opened the eerie cavern.
Now it is inevitable.