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gamewizardinnc

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FPS Help
« on: November 28, 2011, 08:07:04 pm »
So I started a new world and as soon as I embarked I got a cave-in message and it zoomed to z-level 27. After I unpaused the game and began to setup the fps declined at a very fast rate until it dropped to only 2-3 fps. This is before any migrants so the only living things on my unit screen were my dwarves, my 25 turkeys, my 2 horses, and a few badgers. Can someone help explain to me what happened?
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Re: FPS Help
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2011, 08:09:36 pm »
You have a bugged embark.  The structural integrity of the cavern layers was bad, something caved in, and now the magma sea is pouring into the underworld, or something equivalently bad.  This will not stop.  You'll probably want to start over from scratch, unless you want to try to play with permanently single-digit FPS.
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gamewizardinnc

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Re: FPS Help
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2011, 08:13:11 pm »
Thanks for the info. Shame though it was one of the best embarks I've seen in a long time.
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Re: FPS Help
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2011, 08:18:05 pm »
Export worldgen info and then regenerate the world with the exact same settings, then embark again at the same location - in all likelihood, you will find that the region is now correctly formed.
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Re: FPS Help
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2011, 08:23:34 pm »
Quick question. How do I export world gen info?
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Re: FPS Help
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2011, 09:31:12 pm »
If you've abandoned, you can get it off Legends mode. Start it up and press 'p' to get the worldgen parameters. If you have a fortress running on a world (and don't want to abandon), you can get the worldgen parameters by pressing 'Escape' and then exporting a local image. This method will give you some rather large screenshots to go with the text file you're after.
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