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[GhostDwemer]

You are using masterwork? What version? You may need to disable some stuff in dfhack.init. Digging invaders is a huge FPS drain, if it is enabled. The warlock and gnome scripts included in the latest version run even when playing dwarves, eating some FPS and creating tons of console spam, but you can disable them in dfhack.init. I save a backup, then cut the entire digging invader, gnome and warlock sections right out.

[TheDarkStar]

Make sure you don't have unused rooms in your fort. Research from a while ago showed that making pathfinding easier significantly improved framerate.

[yaymeh]

You are using masterwork? What version?

I mostly had the problem with a vanilla game (did most of the experimenting there).
Started one with masterwork 4d when my vanilla game became too sluggish and had the same problem there shortly after (no digging invaders).

I noticed something odd today though: Yesterday, I started yet another new game (this time I cheated my fortress half the way to almost the stage my two low-FPS-fortresses were in - starting to get sick of never getting beyond the stage of the game where 80% of the time is spent configuring stockpiles & stuff). When I stopped playing I had maximum (200) FPS with 100 dwarves. After resuming from hibernation I now have 120FPS. Which is weird. And should be impossible as far as my understanding of procedures involved in my system's hibernation go. The only thing DF should even be able to "notice" after resume from hibernate should be sudden jump in the hardware clock...

Well, might be a weird coincidence... Did not try to restart the game yet because I want to try around first and see if it normalizes.

[smurfingtonthethird]

I did some !!science!!, and a 2D fort layout is far less laggy. If you can keep pathfinding on one Z-level, FPS greatly increases.

[Sutremaine]

How do you keep a fort layout identical except for 2D vs. 3D?