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[herrbdog]

No guarantees it will work for anyone else, depending on your machine's configuration, but go into task manager, kill EVERY task except DF and essential machine processes. Most importantly, KILL EXPLORER.

I run DF, and DF only (on 2kpro) NO browser, NO winamp, NO start menu & taskbar.

You can rerun explorer to get yer start button back. In task manager, go to File->Run, run "explorer".

In a 3x3 map, with chasm, ~25-30 chasm critters, 36 dwarves, ~20 assorted animals, no magma, brook only, no waterfall. One year in, moderate development. With nothing running, but WITH explorer running, I get 70-100 FPS (fluctuating). Once I kill explorer, it goes to 150-200+ fps.

I have game FPS cap set to 1000, and G_FPS set to 20. Intel 3.2 Ghz HT Prescott.

[BurnedToast]

killing non-essential programs is always a good idea. Killing explorer is not (though, it probably won't break anything). I tested it anyway, and didn't get any fps increase at all from killing it.

Would be interesting to hear if it helps anyone else - you should not see a big FPS gain unless explorer is using alot of system resources, and normally it won't be. Maybe it was something else you had running (winamp?) that sped it up?

[herrbdog]

Only variable was explorer. P'haps in 2k explorer uses more resources? (I have been doing this for years for most games, never had a problem.)

Then again, this install is running on 3 years. But I don't install anything but direct applications. I don't keep any resident programs running. I'll make & post a screenie of my process list.

   

ok, a few residents:
ati2evxx = vid driver
cli = vid driver control panel
ctsvccda = creative mp3 player service
PPPoEService = network conn (my router died  :confused : )

everything else besides DF i can't kill (except explorer.)

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[herrbdog]

agh double post   :mad:

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[Eagle of Fire]

You been running DF for... 12 hours straight?  :eek:

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[TotalPigeon]

I think my record is about 15 hours. Reminds me strongly of Baldur's Gate, with its health warning regarding sleeping and eating on one of the loading screens...

[Dae]

A wise advice no one ever cared...  

[Greiger]

Ulib Dwarfguy has been unhappy lately. He is worried you haven't been getting enough sleep.

[Wiles]

I tried this with windows XP and my FPS stayed the same (17 )

[herrbdog]

I *suspect* that with XP, many of the base explorer processes (monitoring disk activity for updates, streaming data, monitoring devices...) do NOT exit when killing explorer. With 2k, I am pretty damn sure they do.

I'ma have to try this at work now (xp machines... blargh).

And, yes DF was running 12 hours straight. I was at work most of that time. =(

And not that it matters to anyone, but, to me:

2kpro >>>>>>>>>>>>> DOS 6.2 >> OS9 >> commodore 64 >> OSX >> XP >> windows 95

Linux & Unix would be so damn far to the left, that my keyboard would break making the ">"

Edit: BRAG!

I once had my IDLE counter over 2500 hours, of IDLE time.

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[Eagle of Fire]

I think your list is pretty incomplete. DOS 7.2 was better than 6.2 and Windows 98 was way better than 95...

Not to say that comparing a computer with a commodore is like comparing apples and oranges... Both fruits, completely different.

[herrbdog]

yaya it's incomplete, i was being a smartass. basically, i hate macs and xp. =p the cutesy bubbly crap and all the annoying layers of wizards and crap just to tweak some settings makes me *&@$#(^#@%$(*#@^%(*#^%

tee hee.

soon as the boss leaves, i will do a test here at work.

[Core Xii]

I don't get an FPS boost. But that's probably because I have four 2.4 GHz cores. I'm folding proteins while playing

[herrbdog]

The intel HT chips are dual-core chips. it probably also helps that I set DF to CPU 0 only... that was not a variable in this test, i always set DF to only CPU 0

I do want to try assigning all the OS processes to CPU 0 and ONLY DF to CPU 1... see if that works. I doubt I can even reassign CPU affinity to OS processes...

Agh, sorry, I am thinking as I type...

[Empty]

I'm also still using win2k.

I've had to fix my dad's winxp one too many times to use it myself   :p