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[justicarab]

is there a way to see what is the cause of it, it just happened all of the sudden

edit: what i can assume i did... i told my dwarves to tear down a rectangle of walls

Edit 2.0:
here is my save, thank you if you take the time to look at it. i can imagine it takes a while to find it.

https://mega.co.nz/#!cBJFnR7L!KygrSReuXjmUo7XYaKAonAP9EQOeN8l_QJEhfze-ito

[smjjames]

In 40.20?

There are lots of things that could cause a sudden FPS drop, most notably pathing.

[justicarab]

pathing?

it went from 100 normally, to 1

[smjjames]

I'm just saying that pathing can cause significant drops. Sounds like a bug though, you should upload the save to DFFD and post on mantis bugtracker.

[justicarab]

so like the pathing of a dwarf?

[smjjames]

The pathing of ANYTHING. Nobody can look at the save if you don't post it.

[Badger Storm]

I also have problems with FPS crashes, generally a few years into a fort.  When it's time for the caravan to leave it sometimes becomes physically painful.

Forbidding the caverns seems to help a little bit, but not a lot.  I end up constantly pausing and unpausing to "recharge" the FPS.

[i2amroy]

I end up constantly pausing and unpausing to "recharge" the FPS.

In the long run that should make absolutely no positive difference (other than to change the number), and it could certainly make a negative one. The maximum number of operations that your computer can do isn't sped up any be you pausing and unpausing the game, nor is it changing (unless the fps drop is directly related to graphics or something that would be affected by a pause), so you aren't going to have any positive gains. In contrast if your computer manages to calculate everything in the next step it won't do anything else additionally if you are paused, meaning it's certainly possible to have negative losses by pausing/unpausing instead of just letting it go forwards slowly.