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[pisskop]

There's threads on this stuff.  Lemme see if I can dig them up, but otherwise search for 'impulse' 'ramp' 'minecart' 'rail', etc.

A start - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=120039.msg3848858#msg3848858

[Demetrious]

There's threads on this stuff.  Lemme see if I can dig them up, but otherwise search for 'impulse' 'ramp' 'minecart' 'rail', etc.

A start - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=120039.msg3848858#msg3848858

Beautiful, thank you. Most of the stuff I found was very specific threads for very specific (i.e. advanced) applications.

[vexxice]

Can I influence my sheep and ram to breed. Light some candles? Play a few tunes? Seriously though, they are my main source of thread right now, and they wont make babies.

[pisskop]

by default, creatures need to be able to touch.  Also animals can be uninterested in marriage or gay, and wont make babies if either is

[Amperzand]

Silly as it might seem, if your ewe doesn't feel like getting it on, no babies will ever occur. I mean, you'd think either the ram would become very insistent, or the dwarves would force-feed the ewe a few quarts of whiskey and fix the problem, but nooo.

[vexxice]

We embarked with... queer sheep. :|
Oh well.

[Pseudo]

Any idea why my framerate, which I have capped to 60/120 (60 G_FPS, 120 FPS), stays around 50/50 most of the time but occasionally shoots up to 59/120 for a short while for no rhyme or rhythm that I can see? (Linux x64 on a laptop). I lie my 60/120, and most of the time I get to a substantially larger fort before it starts dropping.

• VSync is not on, as far as I can tell
• I do not have any sieges (I first thought it was explainable by an early seige I had, but it's still going and I ended it long ago)
• There aren't any intruders that I can see that are failing to pathfind. However:
• I have not breached the caverns.
• I have breached the magma sea
• There are no streams/rivers on the map
• There are no volcanoes on the map
• The map has a (3-5 z level on the entire map) aquifer
• I cannot see any flowing water or lava
• My population is ~20
• My livestock population is ~40, but with ~1/2 in cages
• I do not have any burrows enabled
• The map is relatively flat
• The region is small
• There are ~30 caged invaders (mainly undead, some necromancers)
• Cold biome
• Non-evil biome

[pisskop]

You're asking a question thats entirely too complex to divine without an actual save to play with.

Lets see, common causes of lag/framerate shift/etc:

-Deep Cavern things.  Forgotten beasts or zombies or incessant rot or forest fires in the caves isn't even seen by you, but exists.
-Pathing problems, may be related to above or may be your own dwarves not pathing right.  May be hidden enemies topside even.
-Excessive stockpiles, repeatedly opening/closing pathways, extreme use of varied traffic designations.
-Items everywhere
-Water moving, magma moving
-Rot
-Rain/waves/mist/evil biome fuckery
-A bug relating to the above.  Sometimes you open pandora's box without even knowing it.
-There's even more goodies to contend with down below.
-Temperature changes/fluxuations
-Huge unit counts/ dead counts/undead/spammed jobs etc.
-Tilesets are supposed to affect framerate a little.
-Your computer's power has an effect.  A big one.  So does the resources you allow your computer to use.

[Bumber]

It's possibly world activation stuff happening in the background. Viewing the same z-level as trees also hurts performance. You don't need 60 G_FPS; 20 actually runs better.

[Pseudo]

Thank you both. I found the problem. I had a background process that was hogging CPU. That wouldn't have been (much of) a problem in and of itself (as both it and DF are largely single-threaded, and I have a dual-core CPU (not including hyperthreading).), except that it was causing thermal throttling. Note to self, I need to clean my heat sink...

You don't need 60 G_FPS; 20 actually runs better.

Call me crazy, but I prefer smoother graphics to a faster fort, especially as the change in game updates is minimal at best on my machine (+2 or so? Almost lost in the noise).

[Bumber]

Call me crazy, but I prefer smoother graphics to a faster fort, especially as the change in game updates is minimal at best on my machine (+2 or so? Almost lost in the noise).

Differentiate 'smoother' from 'faster' as it pertains to motion in DF. Your GFPS is limited by your FPS, and nothing on screen is even changing 60 times per second. You're just wasting power and creating more heat.

[Amperzand]

To explain further, a standard, unladen european swallow peasant moves once every ten frames, so if you had 60 FPS and 6 G_FPS, it'd probably look pretty standard.

[Pseudo]

You're forgetting the interactive portions. Namely: the cursor and such.

I would be fine with the main game window updating at 6 (G_)FPS (or whatever) if the cursor / etc still updated at a reasonable framerate. But it isn't set up that way, unfortunately.

That's the smoother I am talking about.

[Amperzand]

Very true. This may, however, be one of the few places where 30-45 G_FPS may actually be fairly acceptable. Especially if you run a super-fast fort and get 300-450 FPS.

[Raven]

where can I find a summary of the next release features? Is there an open thread on this subject?