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lordlp

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The FPS downward spiral
« on: April 18, 2012, 03:26:04 am »
Curous if anyone has managed on achieving 100fps at 200 dwarves. I've followed every guide I could find on fps reduction but no matter what I do, as soon as I get a standing army (armies) and fully armor/equip them with steel, my fps is hanging at about 30. It's pretty pointless at that point to continue playing.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 03:52:07 am »
What else happens around the time you get an army?
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 04:32:52 am »
Just because the graphics consist of exploded keyboard and vomited-up punctuation doesn't mean the game isn't a total CPU-slave-driving-beast.

Your options are limited.  You can:

(1) Hack anything you can think of out of the game: temperature, weather, grazing, eating, sleeping, and needing to actually mine to get steel weapons.  Don't let history happen; the game likes to let history clog up its tubes.

(2) Hack into a secret government mainframe and steal all their megahertzes while wearing skin-tight-vinyl and contorting in bullet time.  (Or upgrade your PC, whichever.)

(3)  ...that's actually about all I could think of, unless you also count "multitask by letting DF run at an abysmal framerate while you knit/watch TV/sleep."

Have there been any in-depth studies on how DF performs on really, really nice cutting-edge machines?
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 05:11:08 am »
I don't know about super cutting edge, but my laptop runs my 150 dwarf, year 400, filled to the brim with worthless clothing, fortress at 100 fps, as long as I turn off temperature.

With temperature on it fluctuates between 30 and 60, depending on whether or not there's a siege.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2012, 05:12:22 am »
Wow temperature really makes that much of a difference? Fuck.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2012, 05:26:05 am »
Temp and pathfinding are the biggest issues, followed by contaminants and clothing.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2012, 05:28:33 am »
Quote from: peskyninja on April 18, 2012, 05:26:05 am
Temp and pathfinding are the biggest issues, followed by contaminants and clothing.

Every season i use dfhack to 'clean all', I don't consider it cheating as the only thing it helps with is my FPS. (Baths in every entrance and exit from the fortress and caverns :))
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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2012, 05:33:18 am »
Yeah, I miss burning.  But [TEMPERATURE:NO] doubles my framerate at least.

I used to "clean all" regularly, but I don't notice that big of a change.  So I've stopped.

Keeping all animals dead/caged/penned seems to help me a lot too.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2012, 10:30:12 pm »
The only thing that happens around when I get an army is strip mining for iron/metals. I'll give the temp a try, see if that helps things in my next fort.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2012, 11:20:02 pm »
For roughly 25% more  FPS, with temperature on, you could try my mod. it adds a lot of other stuff you might or might not like, but the FPS is and will stay higher then in vanilla df. Link is in my signature.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2012, 11:51:49 pm »
Quote from: Meph on April 20, 2012, 11:20:02 pm
For roughly 25% more  FPS, with temperature on, you could try my mod. it adds a lot of other stuff you might or might not like, but the FPS is and will stay higher then in vanilla df. Link is in my signature.

Is it possible to just make a vanilla DF with more FPS? lol.
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2012, 01:54:36 am »
Yes, but it would include heavy changes to the materials and number of different items. I was actually was making a poll about this, but so far most people vote for: No, No, since it slows down the big mod (the programming on it) and Yes, but I wouldnt play it. Only 25% are for: Yes.

With a negative feedback of 75% there is a rather low chance that I will do this anytime soon.
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Re: The FPS downward spiral
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2012, 02:40:05 am »
Wonder how much money Toady One wants to make DF multicore? Even if he has to subcontract it. Maybe if he set a figure we could whip up enough interest.

I mean how many people are still running XP on a single core?
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2012, 11:00:13 am »
Quote from: Meph on April 21, 2012, 01:54:36 am
Yes, but it would include heavy changes to the materials and number of different items. I was actually was making a poll about this, but so far most people vote for: No, No, since it slows down the big mod (the programming on it) and Yes, but I wouldnt play it. Only 25% are for: Yes.

With a negative feedback of 75% there is a rather low chance that I will do this anytime soon.

I own 80% of the stocks of your life and my vote is yes, so you MUST do it before I dump you into the deadly blood chamber!
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