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chilller6

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DF v42.06 slow fps?
« on: July 06, 2016, 01:07:36 pm »

Idk if this has happened to anyone else, but usually around the 3rd migrant wave or 30-40ish dorfs (whichever comes first), my game slows down dramatically when dorfs are moving or building. Does anyone know of a way to fix this?
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zakhad

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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2016, 06:11:24 pm »

Have you breached the cavern layer? How big is your embark size? whats the system spec's etc you can't diagnose a problem without knowing a little bit about it. Try to give us as much info as you can and we'll see what we can do.
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chilller6

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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2016, 07:31:20 pm »

Have you breached the cavern layer? How big is your embark size? whats the system spec's etc you can't diagnose a problem without knowing a little bit about it. Try to give us as much info as you can and we'll see what we can do.

I have breached the cavern layer, and I usually embark with a 5x5 area.
System specs:
AMD a10-7700k 3.4ghz cpu
radeon 7750 1gb gpu
16gb g.skill ripjaws RAM
gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H mobo
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daisha

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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2016, 08:22:28 pm »

5x5 is an ambitious embark size.  If you have a long world history, and aren't running with any of the fps boosters enabled... yeah.  Flowing water and especially magma with temperature enabled can also be a drag.  Waterfalls, too.  Also, if your map is especially deep (lots of z-levels, perhaps if you've required many solid layers between each cavern layer or above the magma sea), that definitely has an impact.
 
Have you run the PAE enabler executable on your Dwarf Fortress.exe?  If not, the vast majority of your RAM isn't helping you at all, and your video card doesn't help much in any case.  Dwarf Fortress is a very processor-limited game.  Your processor's not weak by any stretch, but again, your embark size is quite ambitious.  Try 4x5 or 4x4.  I run 3x3 typically, but I'm on an i5 laptop that's a couple revisions behind, so that's probably not necessary for you.  Decreasing the length of your world history can also help, but young worlds are somewhat impoverished (dragons won't grow to full size with fewer than 1000 years of history - but honestly good luck getting a playable civ to live 1000 years anyway.)
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chilller6

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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2016, 08:37:34 pm »

5x5 is an ambitious embark size.  If you have a long world history, and aren't running with any of the fps boosters enabled... yeah.  Flowing water and especially magma with temperature enabled can also be a drag.  Waterfalls, too.  Also, if your map is especially deep (lots of z-levels, perhaps if you've required many solid layers between each cavern layer or above the magma sea), that definitely has an impact.
 
Have you run the PAE enabler executable on your Dwarf Fortress.exe?  If not, the vast majority of your RAM isn't helping you at all, and your video card doesn't help much in any case.  Dwarf Fortress is a very processor-limited game.  Your processor's not weak by any stretch, but again, your embark size is quite ambitious.  Try 4x5 or 4x4.  I run 3x3 typically, but I'm on an i5 laptop that's a couple revisions behind, so that's probably not necessary for you.  Decreasing the length of your world history can also help, but young worlds are somewhat impoverished (dragons won't grow to full size with fewer than 1000 years of history - but honestly good luck getting a playable civ to live 1000 years anyway.)

I have started a human fort now and used 3x3 embark which does seem to have fixed a bit of the lag. By PAE, do you mean the large address aware because I have used that
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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2016, 08:55:15 pm »

I have started a human fort now and used 3x3 embark which does seem to have fixed a bit of the lag. By PAE, do you mean the large address aware because I have used that
Yeah, that's the one.

I'm surprised to hear that a 3x3 embark hasn't fixed all all the lag, actually.  Is it possible that you have other programs on your machine eating up a significant amount of your processor time?
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chilller6

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Re: DF v42.06 slow fps?
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2016, 09:37:58 pm »

I have started a human fort now and used 3x3 embark which does seem to have fixed a bit of the lag. By PAE, do you mean the large address aware because I have used that
Yeah, that's the one.

I'm surprised to hear that a 3x3 embark hasn't fixed all all the lag, actually.  Is it possible that you have other programs on your machine eating up a significant amount of your processor time?

ya I just realized that my anti-virus was autoscanning for some reason, 97% of the lag has been fixed now  :P
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