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[Toady One]

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A bug fix release along with a test-change for the FPS toggling.  There was something of a problem with how it was capping the frame rate -- of course, every time I touch this part of the code, some other problem crops up.  Anyway, the CPU usage rates should go up now as it attempts to attain the ideal FPS.  If you want to cap this in some way, let me know, and it should be fairly easy to lower the maximum frame rate in the init.  I'm not sure how I could cap the actual amount it wants to use though.

[Kjoery]

Yeah, I've been playing around with the FPS and have been noticing that. Thanks alot; the 28 FPS was starting to bug me >.>

[ December 21, 2006: Message edited by: Kjoery ]

[flap]

Thanks Toady !

Well, I hope that you'll enjoy your few days of rest in Washington.

And don't forget : DF is good, but Turkey is not bad either !!

Youhou, christmass, food, wine... Yummy

[Toady One]

You mean lutefisk right?  Lutefisk day is tomorrow.  Fish jello.  I'm not going to eat it but being near it is enough.

FPS and speed reports?  Did this work out at all?  Strange new speed issues?

[ussdefiant]

it tends to get really speedy near the start of the game, at least until the 1st migration. After that, the speed is quite good.

[FFT]

I don't know that it needs a maximum FPS to attain, but a limiter in the init would be convenient. With my LCD it's a wasted effort to go past 60 fps  

[Maximus]

I'm not positive, but I believe these "FPS" are not display frames, but in-game time frames.  In which case, DF at 120 FPS is going to run twice as fast as at 60.  How often it updates the screen is pretty irrelevant above, say, 10 FPS; it's not a shooter.

[scjohnno]

I drop from my normal 50 FPS to around 20 when irrigating a farm via Underground River -> Floodgate -> Channel -> Floodgate. I'm guessing the fluids code still isn't fully optimised.

[Toady One]

It's the pathfinding code for that -- the fluids disrupt a lot of the precalculated path-finding information and it is marked as stale, so if dwarves form paths while the fluids are flowing, there's a bit of info that needs to be recalculated.  There's probably a bit more that can be done there, but it's far superior doing it this way than not calculating the information in advance.  The info is in part the numbering of the connected components of the map.  It already does a bit with not making the information stale when it can be tweaked locally, but this isn't something you can always count on.  There might be some intermediate local flood fills it could do to check if the information needs to be trashed globally, but I'm not in a rush to optimize this since everything about fluids is due to undergo large changes at some point to fix the flow bugs.

[Griz]

quote:Originally posted by Maximus:
<STRONG>I'm not positive, but I believe these "FPS" are not display frames, but in-game time frames.  In which case, DF at 120 FPS is going to run twice as fast as at 60.  How often it updates the screen is pretty irrelevant above, say, 10 FPS; it's not a shooter.</STRONG>

I turned off vsync, it went from 60 to 100 fps, and everything is really fast now.

[Zanfib]

Vsync? What is that and how do I turn it off?

[Griz]

video card control panel, if you don't know where it is then it's probably on the default setting of off.

[DR]

Cor, you weren't kidding about the increase... the game now goes blisteringly fast for me. A way to slow it down again would be much appreciated.

[Toady One]

There's that other thread as well -- how fast is this?  Faster than 100 FPS with the counter?

[ December 28, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[DR]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>There's that other thread as well -- how fast is this?  Faster than 100 FPS with the counter?

[ December 28, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]</STRONG>

Hovering just below 100. More in the 94-97 range.