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[Poindexterity]

i have a 2x2 embark and 69 dwarves. I have no running water or moving magma on the whole map.
i have no goblins in cages. I have no more than 10 animals in the whole fort.

any ideas as to why my FPS has fallen from a steady 48 (the FPS i had for the first 5 years of the fort) to around 28?

[Prologue]

You play with 48 FPS? I can hardly stand that.

On topic - Do you have loose items around? Including stockpile items.

[rephikul]

Stuff trying to path to your fort. Have you an ambush, wierd things in the cavern or breached hell? Massinve job cancelling also is a factor.
and ew, 48 fps.

[Quietust]

What are your system specs (CPU type/speed, RAM, etc.)?

My system's 4 years old (2.4GHz Core 2 Quad + 3GB RAM), and it can handle a 2x3 embark with 145 dwarves and 116 animals (mostly caged) at 37fps as well as a 4x4 embark with 200 dwarves and 150 animals (again, mostly caged) at 30fps  - if yours can't manage 100fps on even a 2x2 embark, then it's seriously underpowered.

[Azated]

Barring all the other things the other posters have said, it's possible that the magma sea is flowing into HFS. If this is the case, you'll have to use DFhack to plug up the holes in the SMR. It's also possible that your entire world is bugged like this, but it's generally not a hard problem to fix.

[Poindexterity]

What are your system specs (CPU type/speed, RAM, etc.)?

My system's 4 years old (2.4GHz Core 2 Quad + 3GB RAM), and it can handle a 2x3 embark with 145 dwarves and 116 animals (mostly caged) at 37fps as well as a 4x4 embark with 200 dwarves and 150 animals (again, mostly caged) at 30fps  - if yours can't manage 100fps on even a 2x2 embark, then it's seriously underpowered.

not even sure of the specs anymore, but the system was BAD ASS 10 years ago.
(yes im aware this makes it a paperweight today)
if you believe the issue is simply my system, then i already KNOW the fix for that.

[Azated]

but the system was BAD ASS 10 years ago.

After 10 years, computers are basically Egyptian hieroglyphics. Soon you'll be able to use it to translate ten thousand year old cave drawings.

[Bobbias]

The 10 year old computer definitely doesn't help any :/

[gunnarig]

My system's 4 years old (2.4GHz Core 2 Quad + 3GB RAM), and it can handle a 2x3 embark with 145 dwarves and 116 animals (mostly caged) at 37fps as well as a 4x4 embark with 200 dwarves and 150 animals (again, mostly caged) at 30fps  - if yours can't manage 100fps on even a 2x2 embark, then it's seriously underpowered.

sorry to go off topic. but if you have a Q6600 g0 stepping you can run that thing @ 3ghz without any problems at all these things went up to 3.6ghz when liquid cooled. they were known for overclocking and mine has been running that way for 3 years. unless your motherboard is made from fecies.

[Poindexterity]

After 10 years, computers are basically Egyptian hieroglyphics. Soon you'll be able to use it to translate ten thousand year old cave drawings.

twas just such a drawing that led me to it's resting place ten years ago...

[Gotdamnmiracle]

What's it like? Using those punchcards I mean.

[Bobbias]

What's it like? Using those punchcards I mean.

Punchcards? I thought he was had to rewire the relays all the time...

[Poindexterity]

What's it like? Using those punchcards I mean.

real funny, fucker.
I'll have you know I've upgraded to the big reel to reel sumbitches.

[nitus]

Contaminants can be a big cause of slowdown, so use the current dfhack and make liberal use of the "clean all" command.
 
But also, on some maps slowdown will just occur as a matter of course. I think the game might be storing and referencing all kinds of semi-useless data for the duration, and the list keeps getting longer, because sometimes a map will just slow down over time for no apparant reason.
 
Also, multiple reclaims on a site can cause massive slowdown for some reason.

[Yaotzin]

In my limited experience the biggest differences have been:

Lots of blood - use clean all from dfhack.
Lots of items - atom smash them and use cleanowned from dfhack.
Flowing liquid. Make it stop flowing.
Pathing stuff. Kill enemies trying to path. Give your dorfs better pathing etc.