'Allo,
I'm well aware of everything causing FPS to drop and the methods to increase the FPS. (but I never like to disable features)
Currently I'm on a fortress, which I will continue on for a long time, but already quite early on I was getting FPS drops.
This fortress is also posted in the thread "post your screenshot" and might provide some insight of why the drops are happening.
I'll place the screenshots from that other thread here as well:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=104631.msg3096360#msg30963601. Initial Fortress
2. Work-in-progress
3. Partially completed fort
There are 2 things, which might effect FPS a lot. On the barren surface (no plants at all) there is a glacier, which is frozen most/or even all of the time and a tiny lake.
The lake might be 20x20 and is frozen maybe 50% of the time? (I am not too sure, because I really do nothing on the surface, except tossing out bloody Goblin parts).
There is 1 quirksome thing going on in the initial fortress. I've made a few rooms, filled with either kitchens/butchers, stills or craftsmen.
Whenever I want to 'q' those area's a lag occurs everytime I move my cursor and the shops are not really cluttered that much. (only exception might be the butcher's). This lag here is very doable, but it takes about a second, which is relatively long for moving 1 x/y position.
So I think my FPS drop might be caused by whatever is causing this lag in my initial fortress and I was hoping that when I would destroy my initial fortress completely, it might get resolved.
Also one very big thing in this fortress.. I am almost completely digging out 6 whole z-levels, constructing the new fortress on the 5th level (having 4 empy z levels above).
Is it an appropiate quess to say that all these rocks from the 6 levels cause the FPS drop? (and might never get resolved)
So I wanted to ask you folks about these 2 things and wether they are known to cause drops. (crowded shops vs. loads of rocks digged out).
Also my personal computer is probably compromised, but the FPS drops are of relative speaking