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[Melzer]

Is there any fix for slow world generation? The worst part is history generation.

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the 1050y history takes about 20 min. And I almost forgot that I have windows Vista

I don't have much problems with other stages of generation.
                           

[Girlinhat]

1: Wow, haven't seen this thread posted before!
2: Gen shorter worlds.  Why do you need such a long world gen?  If you're just playing fortress mode then the history time doesn't matter all that much, although older worlds get more necromancers, vampires, etc you can still get all of this within about 200 years.  If you're after dragons, mod them to [CHILD:100] and you're set.
3: Gen smaller worlds.  Same reasons as above, chances are you're not going to utilize the whole world size anyways.
4: Less site and/or fewer civs.

[krisslanza]

The world gens are much slower now simply because there's a lot more things being tracked now. It's only going to get longer from here on out, probably.

[Melzer]

Why do you need such a long world gen?

I want to fight some adult dragons. (they grow up after about 1000y without mods) Thanks for the 100y old dragons, never thought about that

[Girlinhat]

If you're after dragons, mod them to [CHILD:100] and you're set.

For that matter mod them to [CHILD:1] or something.  We don't quite have the luxury of naturally aged dragons anymore.

[xaldin]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=100732.0

I'd pretty much confirmed it to be werecreatures. If you're unlucky they explode in growth and their attacks bog the system down fast. If you're extremely lucky they're kept in check and you can generate more.  With were curses at 0 I could always generate a 1050 world without too much trouble (slower than last version but that has to be expected given the growth of stuff tracked) but with werecurses at default or higher yeah it takes either a LONG time or crashes out depending.

[Jingles]

20 Minutes!  Holy crap that makes my computer feel inadequate.  It crashes close to the year 200 and it takes about 15 min 20 min to get that far...

I feel an upgrade coming on.

[Abraxis]

20 Minutes!  Holy crap that makes my computer feel inadequate.  It crashes close to the year 200 and it takes about 15 min 20 min to get that far...

I feel an upgrade coming on.

In all honesty I don't think worldgen is that dependent on your hardware at the moment.  Unless you have very old tech, it's mostly software bottlenecking (DF itself, and the limits of your OS, neither being that effective at handling the latest tech).

I think you'd be disappointing if you spent a bunch of money upgrading just to get better worldgen speeds.

[krenshala]

Takes me about 30 minutes to gen a 250 year old world using the default settings in basic world gen.  There are about four times as many historical figures than with 0.31.x, however, which is where most of the issue is (more things to track, and more interactions with things being tracked).

[Mitchewawa]

If you're after dragons, mod them to [CHILD:100] and you're set.

For that matter mod them to [CHILD:1] or something.  We don't quite have the luxury of naturally aged dragons anymore.

I did that once. Don't. Dragons breed and mature super fast, wiping out civs before they get a chance to grow. I managed to gen a world with only elf races, it was quite surprising.

[miauw62]

The world gens are much slower now simply because there's a lot more things being tracked now. It's only going to get longer from here on out, probably.

I somewhere saw a mini-!!science!!, somebody genned a world without any werecreatures, and it was alot faster, seemingly...
(tough if you go to adventure mode, you can nearly only get quests for the 10+ lairs inhabited by naked peasants)

[RysanMarquise]

I am currently in year 350 with 4 hours of world-gen. My computer is new and relatively high-end.

I cut down were-curses to 6.

Civ's and populations are below base. Currently the total population is under 10k.


I am fine with World Gen taking so long, but I just wish the client was better able to handle the problems. I can't even abandon the process mid-way after year 250, because the client has stopped responding to escape commands.

This is faster than another World I was genning before.

[Lexx]

Weird. I can usually get world gens to 300 years in 10 minutes. Then it tails off and goes clunky anywhere past that. Before the main update I always got 1100 year old worlds in 15 mins max. 4 year old PC here. Plus hang in there on the world gen speed. Toady is working on it.

[Neyvn]

I just opened the File to make Dragons grow faster like Girlinhat suggested, and I can't see the Tag for them. Am I blind or do they not have a Child tag???

[miauw62]

I just opened the File to make Dragons grow faster like Girlinhat suggested, and I can't see the Tag for them. Am I blind or do they not have a Child tag???

Weird... i cant find it either.
just try adding it in anyway, for !!science!!