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Author Topic: Dwarffortress cannot run on a clean machine  (Read 458 times)

Yat

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Dwarffortress cannot run on a clean machine
« on: May 04, 2009, 08:36:34 am »
Allright, I've been playing DF for a long time, since the 2d version on the same computer the entire time. Recently I've had to reformat it went through all those standard motions to rebiuld and ensure my updated drivers, then when I go and download the fortress it only runs at below one frame per second. When I am on the menu screen I have lag scrolling between the options to create a new world and exit. I let it generate a world and it is no better during the game. I just went back and re-updated my bios since it was the only one out of date but still no avail. Really if anyone has suggestions of how to get this working again it would be much appreciated.
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FrickenMoron

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Re: Dwarffortress cannot run on a clean machine
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2009, 11:09:28 am »
tried out 40d11? maybe that helps.
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Re: Dwarffortress cannot run on a clean machine
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2009, 11:19:48 am »
I recently had to reinstall my OS, and had a very similar problem, worldgen took AGES, dwarves walked like they were in 4/7 molasses.

The issue in my case was that I have an integrated graphics chip, and didn't have the current drivers.  It was using the crappy windows-default drivers, which was eating precious processor cycles.  I grabbed the most current drivers, and my dwarves FLY now.  They're actually faster than before the reinstall, it's glorious :)
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