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Author Topic: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?  (Read 710 times)

CT

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Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« on: August 06, 2011, 01:59:00 pm »
I wouldn't know what to look for if i tried. Or is it hard coded into the game?
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Quote from: fqllve on April 16, 2011, 07:31:08 pm
No, yep. That's what I meant too. I want to come out of the theater completely fucked up for weeks.

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Re: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2011, 02:06:20 pm »
in the RAW files some processes can be turned off, such as modelling of temperature and weather effects, those things are not really gamebreaking but do use alot of computational resources.
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Re: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2011, 02:15:12 pm »
I don't think he means to optimise the speed, I think he means just generally. In the init file there's an option for showing your FPS, and it's also capped at 100 by defualt. Turn it off by setting the cap to 0 and your system will run it as fast as possible, sometimes hundreds of frames. I had one running at 1000 once, 10x faster than default!
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Re: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2011, 02:17:37 pm »
Change the FPS cap. Each frame is actually a tick in DF. Assuming your computer can handle it, you can raise the speed of the game massively.
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Re: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2011, 02:22:05 pm »
Cool thanks for the quick replies everyone.
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Quote from: fqllve on April 16, 2011, 07:31:08 pm
No, yep. That's what I meant too. I want to come out of the theater completely fucked up for weeks.

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Re: Is there a way to speed up game time or ticks?
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2011, 03:43:17 pm »
*Sets FPS cap to 0*
*Loads my current fort*
*Looks at FPS*

One hundred and two... sigh.

Got 7.5K in the object testing arena, there should be a benchmark thread to see what uncapped FPS people can get in there.
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