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[Baughn]

I'm not going to ask you to fix the output system - I know how hard it is - but could you at least set the g_fps timer to something saner, like 20? Or perhaps make it read it from file?

Being stuck on 100 makes the game.. slow.

[Yanlin]

I thought the Mac had a text editor that could open simple ini and txt files...

Just edit it yourself man.

[Sunday]

That's not how it works, Yanlin.  I'm pretty sure when you change the g_fps through the init on a mac, it doesn't actually change the g_fps in the game.  Some of the init options that work on a PC don't work on a mac.

[Sareth]

That sucks, but look at the bright side, Toady is nice enough to make a mac version!

[Yanlin]

That's not how it works, Yanlin.  I'm pretty sure when you change the g_fps through the init on a mac, it doesn't actually change the g_fps in the game.  Some of the init options that work on a PC don't work on a mac.

Care to explain why it works that way? I'm not so great with Macs. I'm a PC man.

[Baughn]

The macintosh port of DF uses a single timer to decide both when to advance the simulation, and when to draw frames.

Right now, it draws at least one frame per tick. The timer ticks 100 times a second.

I don't quite recall if the non-graphical framerate can go above 100 or not, but in any case it would be relatively simple to add a check that only actually draws a frame, say, once every five ticks.