Don't know where else to go on this forum or if anyone here will even care, but I started Dwarf Fortress about a week ago, watched some tutorials and figured out how to play the game entirely. Very enjoyable game and I don't want to give it up but I'm getting fed up with this FPS drop.
I made a good fortress that easily fended off multiple sieges and megabeasts. Have a room for every dwarf at fine quality at least and I'm working on refurbishing everything into higher grade material. Have a gigantic stockpile, 600k-700k fortress value, a count noble. 24 Military dwarves of every melee weapon type and im planning on adding in 24 marks dwarves. They have a really nice barracks, and I got an axelord within a very short time. Have a hospital, a bloodied up arena and a legendary dining room. So I have all bases covered, and all my dwarves are very happy save a couple that had their precious pets get killed.
But it's gotten to the point where I get 20 FPS ALL THE TIME, and it's taking my dwarves a lifetime to complete one simple task. I want to make a giant room for my count so he doesn't go ballistic. But my god, the hours go by and they still aren't done hauling all the stone out even if I que up TONS of dwarves to do it. And its not that big of a room either.
I have 186 dwarves, 100+ livestock. I tried tweaking lazy newb pack to set the population cap to 130-140, but I was too late, there were like 67 children >.< And I tried tweaking some of the other settings as well in LNP but nothing works....still 20 FPS.
I made a stupid mistake of letting cows, donkeys and other related animals be adopted to keep my dwarves happy early game so I can't butcher them. Now these sob's play super smash brothers on each other in their pens, so I just let them duke it out and now the pens full of teeth, legs, arms, noses, etc but these freaks of nature won't die despite not having legs, arms or eyes and so on. Which is why the only pets these dwarves are going to get are dogs, cats, bunnies and horses....period. And yes, I switched them over to other pens, but when new calves were born, it was a pain in the ass to keep track of them and I had to put them all in the same pen to make sure they all got grass.
If anyone can help me resolve the FPS issue, then I'd be grateful, but if not...then I'll have to move on. The slowness is killing the fun factor for me.
I have a phenom AMD computer, 2.1ghz, 4 gigs of ram and a very up to date graphics card but Im not a computer expert or anything and my computer is over 3 years old. Yes, I do plan on getting a new computer but I have other expenses right now, if I can resolve this and make the FPS bearable for now, that can tide me over till I get a new computer.
I can also put in my save file so people can take a look at what might be wrong.