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[Baughn]

It wouldn't. The patch only affects DF-DFA communication, which is predictable and has nothing to do with the GPU.

[Inquisitor Saturn]

Just checking, you don't happen to have the mouse texture on?
That'd probably cause a crash. I should do something about that.

Nope.

[[NO_THOUGHT]]

I just need to say, you are an excellent programmer. Your file took my crawling 20-30fps DF and made it a full 100fps beast! I can see myself playing dwarf fortress much more often now!

[BurnedToast]

This changed my current (small) fort from ~300 fps or so fort to about 320 - 340 or so, and sometimes as high as 400. A new embark on a 3x3 area was sitting at my current cap of 500 fps(!) I admit I was very skeptical it would do anything, but it does work and much better then I imagined it would.

It also made partial print 0 work right, which is great even without any other improvement.

I also left the intro movie on (oops...) but, good news, it didn't seem to break anything. The intro played fine, though when I loaded a game it was squished into the top part of the screen - however switching to windowed then back to fullscreen fixed it and I haven't noticed any other problems with anything.

Nice job! This is pretty amazing, especially considering it's just a single file you drop in the folder, no worries about hacking the exe or editing the game while it runs or anything like that.

[Razordw]

Hearing the last couple improvements makse me wish my graphics card wasn't out of date so I could see if it helps any. I could really use an extra 10-20fps out my current fort as I'd like to keep it going and leave temperature on as it just makes magma that much more fun!

[Bluerobin]

looks like my problem's the exact same one Inquisitor Saturn's having.  The game tries to start, goes to a black screen, the music starts, skips a few times, and the game crashes.  Debug window closes at crash, but the output's the same as Saturn posted.  No mouse graphic enabled here either.

[Baughn]

looks like my problem's the exact same one Inquisitor Saturn's having.  The game tries to start, goes to a black screen, the music starts, skips a few times, and the game crashes.  Debug window closes at crash, but the output's the same as Saturn posted.  No mouse graphic enabled here either.

Okay. I've got some time to look at the problem now, so please tell me the following:

- Windows version (XP, vista, SP1, SP2, etc.)
- The complete contents of your init.txt (in a spoiler)
- Make and model of your graphics card

[Baughn]

Hearing the last couple improvements makse me wish my graphics card wasn't out of date so I could see if it helps any. I could really use an extra 10-20fps out my current fort as I'd like to keep it going and leave temperature on as it just makes magma that much more fun!

Um, what happens if you try?
I'm using only opengl 1.1 functions.. I think..
We're up to opengl 3 now.

[Razordw]

Um, what happens if you try?
I'm using only opengl 1.1 functions.. I think..
We're up to opengl 3 now.

It was the non-power of two bug stuff, unless you fixed it and I missed the comment about that. Basically (have a screen shot in an earlier post somewhere) screwed up the graphics of each tile where only color was notable and nothing else.

[mattmoss]

I believe this works for me as long as I leave my grid at 80x25. If I change that in init.txt, the accelerator doesn't seem to notice and continues running at 80x25.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Running on Mac OS X 10.5.5.
EDIT EDIT: I believe toggling fullscreen and back to windows fixed this; console reports proper grid size of 80x50.

[Baughn]

Just so you know, I'm currently busy rewriting bits of Battle Champs in order to get this code into DF itself..

That is to say, I won't be working on DFA for a while, if at all. The source is available, though, and I'll try to convince Toady to do a re-release of 40d with the rewritten output code in if I'm done a long time before the next official release of DF (which I may well be).

[Groveller]

So you won't be getting to that slowdown-to-0fps problem anytime soon, then? Ah, well.

[Baughn]

Nope, but instead the next version of DF will (hopefully) be faster, more stable, and run on windows, linux, OS X, not to mention any other 'nix Toady feels like compiling it on.

[[NO_THOUGHT]]

Sounds great as soon as it's stable enough for more computers. I have only one question, I want to use a 9x9 tileset, but the accelerator crashes the game. Anyone know how to fix this? I will try the debug version soon.

[Groveller]

Nope, but instead the next version of DF will (hopefully) be faster, more stable, and run on windows, linux, OS X, not to mention any other 'nix Toady feels like compiling it on.

Well I guess that's a fair compromise...