Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[salttotart]

We all have different computer speeds and styles and opinions when it comes to how we all like to play the game.  One of the biggest varying factors I think is frame rate.

Personally, I like to keep my frame rate maxed at 120 with the graphical fr maxed at 60.  I prefer it so much that if I forget to change it with a new download of the game I have to quit the game immediately and change it.

So, what arr your preferences?

[Cody1750]

I usually keep mine set at 100 fps but half the time it's running at 80 or 90.

[Arrkhal]

It's usually at 100 right up until I get about 40 immigrants, 50 cats, 80 dogs, 200 camels, 60,000 rocks, etc., all around the same time.  Then it drops to perhaps 10.

[salttotart]

Speaking of FPS, is there anyway to adjust the max while the game is running?  Sometimes when my dorfs are digging of dumping rock I'd like to bump up the frame rate without having to save, quit, change it, then go back into the game.

Sorry about changing this into a gameplay question.

[Gergination]

I would love to play at 100 FPS.  When you have 307 dwarves, thousands of items, and are mining out entire z-levels in a 6x6 embark tile it tends to slow things down. 

If my dwarves have jobs I'll be lucky to hit 10 (usually around 6).  If there's nothing going on it can hit 20.

[Lemunde]

I actually prefer a low game frame rate of about 50.  I used to have it much lower but that became tedious.  I like having a good idea what all my dwarves are doing at a glance and having them all zip around like mad dwarves just makes it all look like a jumbled mess.  I leave the graphical frame rate at default. 

[Quatch]

Typically 20-40. Playable, but only if you like paying attention to every detail ;P

[tehstefan]

I played DF for the longest time at the wonderful framerate of 2. It was amazingly slow, and I was wondering what took so long, until I turned on the counter. Fun times.

[tigrex]

Letely I've been setting the fps to 500.  I usually only hit 200-300 ingame, but it still keeps things moving nicely.  It also helps me cultivate matrix-esque reflexes when goblins show up.

[Haspen]

Well, I got used to 10-20 fps (cap 40), so even 50 is too fast for me. And, heck, I don't have even to pause that much on battles or so

[mission0]

On average with a small fort it stays maxed out at 95-100.

Once I get 70 dwarves or so and a few thousand items it gets to about 60-70.

[Gergination]

My framerate would be unbearable if I was sitting there watching every little detail but I basically read, do homework, or surf the internet while it is running.  Megaprojects take a lot of time but once you get the dwarves going they're pretty autonomous.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I cap mine at 300 which lets me start the fort quickly without having my dwarfs teleporting around and slowly the actual speed drops to around a low of 10 on average.

[yarr]

i start with 500 fps, which is fine.

only works until the 2nd or 3rd migrant wave tho.

when you have 100+ dwarves and a few explorational shafts dug out it drops to 60-90 and stays there.
(125 dwarf limit)

[Grax]

I'm trying to stay within 90-100 fps, lower is less playable.