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[utunnels]

I had a level full of trees and other mushrooms. The fps drops from 50 to 17 when I look at that level.
Consider I'm use a 1x1 map, you may suffer more fps penalty if you are playing a big map with lots of plants.

Now when I view this level, fps drops to 10 or below. No wonder why the elves hate the dorfs, because the latter have to get rid of the trees.

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Can confirm trees are a huge component. That's both because of constant growth and because of rendering. The game has to go through memory, sort through all like 8 plant coverings on the tile, and figure out which one to draw. That takes a lot of memory, which can surprisingly be a bottleneck. If that's the bottleneck for you, lowering the G_FPS_CAP to like 10 (from 50) can help a LOT.

I limited gfps to 15.
It seems windows size also matters. With standard window size, I get 25(15), but when maximized, it drops to 12(12).
Switching to ascii standard or turning off graphics does NOT help here, for some reason. I guess the game has to go through the list of all those trees and bushes.