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Hoborobo234

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Massive Lag of Win 7
« on: March 29, 2010, 03:13:53 pm »
Yeah I got a very low FPS when i play DF on my new Windows 7 OS. It's 32 bit. The thing is I played it fine when I had XP. Has this happened on anybody else's systems? I don't get lag with any other games. And most importantly are there any fixes?
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 03:15:46 pm »
Quote from: Hoborobo234 on March 29, 2010, 03:13:53 pm
Yeah I got a very low FPS when i play DF on my new Windows 7 OS. It's 32 bit. The thing is I played it fine when I had XP. Has this happened on anybody else's systems? I don't get lag with any other games. And most importantly are there any fixes?

This happened to me, but I thought it was because of the fact I was now using a completely different system. Partial Print fixed it though. So did using the d# series.
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 03:17:47 pm »
Partial Print, d# series?
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 03:20:58 pm »
Quote from: Hoborobo234 on March 29, 2010, 03:17:47 pm
Partial Print, d# series?

Partial Print is enabled in the init file, and should make it run faster. The d# series is made by Baughn and should run faster. A link to d19, the latest, is in the news section. Try it out.
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2010, 03:42:56 pm »
I don't have any issues FPS wise and I'm using Windows 7. Occasionally when something is running in the background or something is trying to do whatever, it will cause a brief lag spike, but otherwise it acts normally.

I was having some FPS issues in another fort, but that one had inefficiency issues with pathing, so it wasn't Windows 7 causing it. I did a new fort and the FPS is as expected and it works just fine.

To the OP: Are you having alot of other stuff running? Either on desktop or in the background? Since DF can only use one core, having a whole bunch of stuff can cause a slowdown.

Also, when you start a new embark, is your FPS hitting the FPS cap? If its not, then that could be a clue.
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2010, 04:03:33 pm »
MSN and Steam? Maybe Skype as well
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Quote from: irmo on October 23, 2009, 03:57:53 am
Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)

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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2010, 02:09:34 am »
I have same setup, Win7 32bit 3GB ram, 1,3GHz proc and df 40d19.2 runs smooth

with one exception: "Social City" on Facebook. This Flash monster kills CPU
so, watch for your CPU resources before starting DF
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2010, 02:44:44 am »
Also remember that the video drivers Windows 7 comes with for nVidia and likely ATi have the worst support for OpenGL, make sure you upgrade them to your manufacturers drivers and try DF again.
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2010, 06:45:55 am »
Works perfectly on windows 7, 4GB of ram, 2.6GHz processor
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« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2010, 07:36:12 am »
Quote from: finesse on March 30, 2010, 02:44:44 am
Also remember that the video drivers Windows 7 comes with for nVidia and likely ATi have the worst support for OpenGL, make sure you upgrade them to your manufacturers drivers and try DF again.
This.
Single most important thing, never use Microsoft-supplied graphics drivers.
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Re: Massive Lag of Win 7
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2010, 08:54:52 am »
DF never plays fine...Ever. You can always have better.
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