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[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

If it is at all possible, could you cool cats at Bay12 optimize the loading of the game any further? Generating a world, searching for sites, even loading a big/old (or both) world takes quite a bit of time.

Is it simply because of the amount of data it needs to load or is it just kinda dirty right now? I understand the game is still beta (alpha?) so if this is something you intend to do once it's out of this phase, then sweet.

[Sadrice]

Generating a small world with a short history makes a huge difference for save and load times.

[Silverionmox]

I'd prefer a fortress that can run for a longer time/with more units/with more complex paths before becoming bogged down in single-digit FPS ratings. I wouldn't care if generating a world took the whole night, if for example some preparation needed to be done to make pathfinding easier.

[612DwarfAvenue]

ToadyOne optimizes whenever he can, but ultimately it's due to bigger worlds and/or longer worldgens have a lot more data, since it tracks all those people and events. Playing on a small world with only a short worldgen will do wonders for your FPS.

[slothen]

There's only one cool cat to do all that stuff, and "make it better/faster" isn't exactly a suggestion.

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Even with a Small world with Short history, it can take upwards of half an hour to load my game. This is a bit annoying when I just want to play a quick 5 minute Adventurer or something. If I tried making a Huge world with an Epic history, it'd probably take an entire day to load lol.

FPS is never an issue for me. Even with a larger than normal embark site and hundreds of entities running around, the lowest I've seen the FPS counter get is 24.

@Slothen: It's more aptly called a suggestion than anything else; hence why it is here.

[slothen]

Even with a Small world with Short history, it can take upwards of half an hour to load my game.

even when I play on my old laptop, it never takes more than 5 minutes tops to load or save, and that's with hundreds of years history on large world.

[Sadrice]

That's very odd.  My computer doesn't run DF extraordinarily quickly, and loading a 5 year small world generally takes less than 5 seconds.  A 300 year large world usually takes about 2 minutes.

What sort of computer are you using?

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

That's very odd.  My computer doesn't run DF extraordinarily quickly, and loading a 5 year small world generally takes less than 5 seconds.  A 300 year large world usually takes about 2 minutes.

What sort of computer are you using?

I just built this thing last month...

FX-4100 CPU
8GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD4670 (2GB)
2x 500GB SATA hard drives.

[NW_Kohaku]

What is the size of your save folder? 

For that matter, what is the size of your embarks?  (including number of z-levels in the map, if possible)

[612DwarfAvenue]

DF is very CPU-intensive. What's the specs for your CPU?