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[Cheddarius]

Is the next release going to have blood/vomit as a fluid? Could we have cisterns of blood? COULD WE WATER OUR FIELDS WITH RIVERS OF LIFEBLOOD?!?!

[SethCreiyd]

Dumping elves in lakes of vomit would be pretty fun.

[Skorpion]

How does one check the framerate the game is running at?
As far as I know there is no console for DF...

Poke through the init file. You can change the settings to show it at all times.

[Slipstream]

Thanks for all your help! 

[Garth]

Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

[assimilateur]

Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

Welcome to Dwarf Fortress.

[jayseesee]

Or, do as me.  Change pop cap to 20, and FPS cap to 1000.  I run about 250 fps with my friendly 26 dwarves + whatever else at the screen, dropping to 125-175 in case of sieges.  Requires: lots of drowning/cave in traps for defense. :-P

[Garth]

Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

Welcome to Dwarf Fortress.

More like welcome to my shitty netbook of a laptop...

[Skorpion]

Oh WOW...
The game runs, ON AVERAGE, at around 15FPS....

DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

I'm managing about 8FPS currently, but with a lot of dwarves and stuff.

[Garth]

I've got about 30 dwarves, a river near my fortress, and plenty of mining going on...

On a 1.6 intel ATOM processor clocked at like 1.2ghz....

I need a new laptop.

[assimilateur]

DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

What DF requires is a rewrite, as even on high-end PCs it doesn't necessarily run smoothly. I don't really want to start a long-winded discussion on this topic, I'm just giving you my two cents, namely that having a top-notch rig is not a surefire way of running this game at high framerates; I can't stress this enough, as I want to spare people the disappointment of upgrading their rigs and still having this game run like shit.

[Garth]

DF really requires a high-end PC with a fast processor.

What DF requires is a rewrite, as even on high-end PCs it doesn't necessarily run smoothly. I don't really want to start a long-winded discussion on this topic, I'm just giving you my two cents, namely that having a top-notch rig is not a surefire way of running this game at high framerates; I can't stress this enough, as I want to spare people the disappointment of upgrading their rigs and still having this game run like shit.

That's what I've began to think. Judging by how many people complain about low FPS when they have a decent system running.
What baffled me is when I found out this game was still in ALPHA...
It seems pretty complete to me, then again I'm just an idiotic teenager playing a complicated game.

[Cheddarius]

Beta will be the game of the next century.
When Dwarf Fortress leaves beta and becomes a full-fledged game, it will require hundreds of supercomputers to run and will perfectly simulate radioactive decay. This is how hardcore Toady is.

[Hortun]

Beta will be the game of the next century.
When Dwarf Fortress leaves beta and becomes a full-fledged game, it will require hundreds of supercomputers to run and will perfectly simulate radioactive decay. This is how hardcore Toady is.

Dwarf Fortress isn't in beta yet. It's still an alpha.

[Garth]

We'll get IBM to partner to build a supercomputer and a team of coders together to get the game done fully :U