I ended up talking to a guy that handles the business end of pearl farming who used to run a hotel in China.
Has dwarven pearl diving made it onto the to-do list then?
Somebody has to do it some time... the animals are in, the material is in, but there's no actual gathering. China is also a PowerGoal via Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which my brother has read intermittently.
Even with the number set at 4 (or 100) it still flashes between them?
100 actually worked, and 11 seems to be the lowest number that works without any flickering. It's faster than turning the partial printing off. Thanks! I should've been more bold with the numbers.
I'm glad something worked! Hopefully the (vaguely) upcoming stuff will eliminate the need to mess around with this sort of thing.
I too get flickering in 40c with PARTIAL_PRINT=YES. In 40a there was no problem. The number setting seems to have a major effect.
With the default setting of 2, already the starting menu highlights flicker, and when playing all the menus and the game view immediately start flickering and displaying on top of each other, similarly as described by Eino above. With setting of 4, the start menu doesn't flicker but game menus etc. start flickering after some time. With setting of 8, nothing seems to flicker (or at least it takes much longer for it to start).
However as there is no flicker with PARTIAL_PRINT=NO and in my case there seems to be no discernible effect on FPS anyway (compared to 40e, with ~50 dwarfs), I think I'll settle for no partial print for now
I have both Vista and nVidia as outcrapping suspects by the way.
Yeah, I've never had speed problems from the render (I can run a 200x150 grid with no lag, but I'm the primary machine being optimized for, so it's not really a surprise). At the same time, some modern computers are choking on the title screen, so it'll have to be dealt with. I was hoping to catch a few with the partial print, but the modern computers are apparently also the ones that partial print (the way I do it) is least likely to work for. It should all sort itself over time though. At least this version seems to be not as horrible as 40b, so I might be able to enter the end of the month without feeling pulled back to it.