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[Poindexterity]

I don't know what's doing it, but I'll have these half hour periods or so where every 2 seconds, my FPS will seem to skyrocket into the 100's without changing the FPS counter at the top of the screen. But for a split second every 2 seconds or so, everything will speed up. Dwarves will seem to teleport two or three squares, bits of flashing yellow rock wall with the miner close by would just turn into stones, things like that. Anyone seen this?

[Michaelsoftman]

Opposite of lag huh?

I've never really heard of anything like this though.  It could be large groups of hidden mobs / ambushers leaving your map I suppose.

[krenshala]

I was noticing the same thing in both my 34.05 and 34.06 fortresses. When it happens it was like every 15 to 30 seconds, and lasting for about 2 seconds, everything on screen would double in speed -- half as long to dig, move, whatever.  Didn't happen continuously, but often enough, and noticeable enough, that I would check the FPS counter.  Like you, it didn't seem to show anything different.

[BigFatStupidHead]

I was having that the other day. Thought it a little strange, but chalked it up to computer weirdness.

[kaijyuu]

Whatever it is that's reducing your FPS isn't something that happens every frame. Pathing, maybe?


I'd say the "burst" is normal framerate, and you've got something going on significantly reducing it that isn't going on all the time.

[krenshala]

Whatever it is that's reducing your FPS isn't something that happens every frame. Pathing, maybe?


I'd say the "burst" is normal framerate, and you've got something going on significantly reducing it that isn't going on all the time.

For me it happened both with just my 23 dwarves and less than a dozen animals (maybe another dozen wild animals), and when the necromancer hunter and necromancer potash maker were animating the 43 muscle shells in my refuse pile to attack my 23 dwarves (which, by the way, is an AWESOME way to train your military dwarves!).

[GavJ]

Have you considered the possibility that you may be schizophrenic?  If so, I suggest you do.  Don't tell anybody though, they'll just know you're crazy and persecute you.  No, it is probably best to just worry about it by yourself, late at night, under the covers, as you peek outside to see if the leaves occasionally fall twice as quickly for a couple of seconds...

[Poindexterity]

Have you considered the possibility that you may be schizophrenic?  If so, I suggest you do.  Don't tell anybody though, they'll just know you're crazy and persecute you.  No, it is probably best to just worry about it by yourself, late at night, under the covers, as you peek outside to see if the leaves occasionally fall twice as quickly for a couple of seconds...

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yourilluminatimasterswillneverfindme

STAY OUT OF MY FILLINGS!!!

[Loud Whispers]

What if he is your fillings?

[Urist Da Vinci]

Just had a burst of extreme speed when several kobold thieves were discovered by a guard dog, after I unpaused the game after the "protect the hoard" message. It was kind of weird. The game auto-paused a second time when more thieves had been discovered, but those thieves were already 8 tiles from the dog and running away. The first kobold already had 4 pages of combat with the dog and was crawling away wounded 3 tiles away.

If there is a bug here, it might be hard to pin down. It could be that certain combat code ignores the FPS cap, for example.

EDIT: the dog was also strangling the kobold's throat for a while with it's right rear leg (with a chokehold!) while the kobold was knifing the dog. I didn't know dogs could join the UFC.

EDIT2: hmm... got the positions wrong. The kobold is unconscious on top of a closed hatch, the dog is on the z-level below the kobold (under the hatch). Both are unconscious, and both are still grappling (according to the purple flashing tiles). No sense is being made.

EDIT3: the dog strangled the kobold thief to death while both were still unconscious, through a closed hatch.

[krenshala]

EDIT: the dog was also strangling the kobold's throat for a while with it's right rear leg (with a chokehold!) while the kobold was knifing the dog. I didn't know dogs could join the UFC.

Sounds like yet another instance of bug# 373 to me.

[martinuzz]

What is the UFC? Utah Fried Chicken?

[Reudh]

Urist Fried Cobold/Kobold.

I'd say you've got your FPS cap too low, and you're getting oddities.

[krenshala]

Urist Fried Cobold/Kobold.

I'd say you've got your FPS cap too low, and you're getting oddities.

Don't know about the OP, but I'm using the default settings (unless Phoebus changed those and I wasn't aware of it).

[kaijyuu]

What is the UFC? Utah Fried Chicken?

Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Imagine Professional Wrestling, tone it down a few degrees, and then replace the wrestling with kung fu. Boring kung fu, not that stuff you see in the movies.