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[GameHat]

On the surface - most of my starting band (5/7 dwarves), lots of animals running around, etc.  100 FPS solid.

5 levels down (where I finally hit rock), Only my miners (2/7 dwarves), no activity.  30 FPS.

Why should my dwarves mine faster when I'm not looking at their z-level?

[Name Lips]

Not only that, but EVERY z-level other than the surface will drop the framerate to amazing depths. For me, it's 60fps on the surface and 15-20fps on ANY other z-level.

[Keiseth]

Same as Name Lips, but -10 on both, roughly. Give or take.

[GameHat]

Hm, that's a pity.

Suggestions?  I started on a woodland map but I need stone.  So I kept digging until I hit stone.

I was thinking that I'd build the bulk of my fortress at the first "stone" level; it will be hard if I'm going at 1/3 the speed the whole time.

[BurnedToast]

It's worse even then that, it seems that any subterranean (or maybe just unexplored I'm not sure) tile causes lag, on any z-level, when you view it.

my map is half outside, half mountain. viewing the outside half is fine 100 fps, scrolling over (on the same zlevel) to the mountain part? zooom, 30 fps.

it even lags when it's paused.

[GameHat]

Well, I've spent a few hours with the new DF

The biggest jump in performance?  When I minimized the starting area size.

Seriously, it starts at like 6x6 when you start a new outpost.  Minimum I think is 3x3, which is what I play now.

It's really not much of a sacrifice - with multiple z-levels I don't think I'll be constrained for building.

And my subterranean FPS has gone from ~20 to ~70.

[GameHat]

The only real sacrifice to starting with a minimized area map?  

Trees, as far as I can tell.  Since you can move your starting map around much more, you can still capture needed features like mountains and/or river.

My BIGGEST old DF maps would still fit ~50% into the minimized starting area.  And since there's not the old features of "river x squares from start" I'm actually pretty happy with my new building options.

I just build a stairway down from my start till I hit rock, then I roll

[Toady One]

This subterranean performance drop is bizarre.  I haven't noticed it, but I wasn't looking for it either.  Because it's bizarre.  There's no reason it should be there, so it seems like I should be able to fix it.  Hopefully it has something to do with the overall lags as well.

[Sappho]

Toady, we love you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much.  Please fix, it's making us sad bunnies.