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[psychologicalshock]

How I wish DF could use more resources now . 2 GB of RAM and a single processor is very low usage by modern standards. If it could use more we could have much larger fortresses and far less lag.

Computers today are simply not powerful enough to manage that much awesomeness, give it a few years and it might work (unless DF complexity is increased enough to compensate). I run either 3x3 or 4x4 max, compy is a 2 year old laptop so can't manage much more :>

That's not the issue, this game has been running for me at the same FPS since the early days of dual cores. The problem is low RAM usage and only 1 processor being used, that's why 3x3 maps are the most you can do if you want a fortress of 200+ dwarves and 30-40+ FPS (any lower is unplayably slow)

What really kills it is when you hit that 2 GB RAM mark, that's when the game gets really fucked. At that point all you can do is mass destroy stone and unneeded animals.

[acetech09]

What really kills it is when you hit that 2 GB RAM mark, that's when the game gets really fucked. At that point all you can do is mass destroy stone and unneeded animals.

Or get that mod that allows DF to use more... can't remember what it's called or if it's updated to latest version.

[psychologicalshock]

What really kills it is when you hit that 2 GB RAM mark, that's when the game gets really fucked. At that point all you can do is mass destroy stone and unneeded animals.

Or get that mod that allows DF to use more... can't remember what it's called or if it's updated to latest version.

Could you find it please? This is a really big problem for me.

[lordlp]

it lags because 6x6 and large is really hard.

Yeah my wife tells me that all the time.

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couldn't resist.

[slink]

I found the cause of my "bursty" lag.  I finally used reveal on it.  There was a FUN feature.

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There was an underground building, quite a few levels deep, with a sealed entrance to tunnels down to the circus, and the magic metal sword.  The building is open to one of the caverns and is full of undead of various sorts.  Clowns have spawned in the lower part of the building, outside the circus but sealed from the caverns.  I imagine these are all attempting to path into my fortress every few seconds.  I can't explain the lag any other way, because the area is my usual 5 x 5 and has no waterfall or other fluid flow issues.  Also, the flowing water never freezes.  It should be a perfectly good embark, but it is nearly unplayable with this jerking to a halt from 75 FPS every few seconds.  Blech.