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[Hypcso]

Anyone else had this recently? 20 year old fort, 120 dwarves 400 pets ( all in cage ) currently have a siege and dwarven caravan on the map and ticking between 0 and 1 fps, takes literally 5 days to complete one month in DF. Everything is turned off that can be turned off ( temp/weather ) i'm not really sure what I can do besides abandon and start a new fort ( really don't want to do that )

[Eruonen]

Kill the animals.

[Jurassiced]

yea wtf with all the animals...

[Tigerbunny]

kill some dwarfs too, and use your magma (must turn temp on) or chasm to radically dump stuff.

do you REALLY need 200 -Schist Mechanisms- 2000 Andesite Scepters and 20000 stones?
Probably you want to undress all your dwarves too though. Nudist Fortresses actually do have a few fps more

[Tayrin]

In case it's not just the animals, do you have lots of unpunished criminals and a locked-up Hammerer? I noticed my FPS immediately increased somewhat when I unlocked my Hammerer.

[Hypcso]

I don't have anyone locked up, I suppose it could be the animals, but I like to keep some around to breed for when I need meat and bones.

[Tayrin]

For testing purposes, I just caged, then uncaged, then crushed around 200 animals, and I didn't notice any change in my average FPS at any point. Huh, oh well.

[gimli]

I think you should contact Toady about this....maybe its a bug. Hopefully..if not, this means that big forts are almost unplayable because of the low fps?
Btw what comp do you have?

[Hypcso]

I just got my computer a few months ago, it was pretty top of the line when I got it but to be honest I don't know what the processor is. I only know it has 4 gigs of ram, which apparently has little to do with running DF. Haha. I would expect that if it can run oblivion at maxed settings with 70 fps it could handle DF with nothing turned on, but apparently not. I won't deny that it's entirely possible that there is a problem with my computer rather than DF, though. I did downgrade from vista the second I got it, apparently there are some driver issues involved with that, but I refuse to have that filth on my machine and they simply don't offer XP anymore.

[Crafty Barnardo]

I haven't tried this myself, but it might help you.  I have noticed that my FPS goes up during winter.  I presume it's because the brook freezes over so there are fewer flows to calculate.  You could try turning on temperature during the winter, waiting for the water to freeze and then turning it off.  My understanding is that this will keep the water permanently frozen.

[martinuzz]

To know what processor you have, go to the start menu, choose RUN, then enter 'dxdiag'.