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[Urist the Dwarven Pirate]

So ya, I've been getting some pretty random fps. At the moment I'm fluctuating between 30 to 90 fps!? Its pretty erratic too.  Any one else getting this or know what I could do to fix it?   

[Oglokoog]

So ya, I've been getting some pretty random fps. At the moment I'm fluctuating between 30 to 90 fps!? Its pretty erratic too.  Any one else getting this or know what I could do to fix it?   

Lower your upper fps limit to 30. That should eliminate the fluctuation.</witty>

[Urist the Dwarven Pirate]

That... That is not a good solution.

[Oglokoog]

That's one of the reasons I had for suggesting it.
Now on a more serious note: can you think of anything... periodic, possibly related to large amounts of water or magma that goes on in your fortress? Maybe a door opening for a moment that makes many dwarves at once path to some items that wouldn't normally be accessible? I don't think the game would do something like this without a reason, so there is probably something largescale going on in your fortress that makes the FPS drop occasionally.

[Urist the Dwarven Pirate]

Well I'm not doing anything with fluids at the moment. I have been getting periodic can not complete task location/item inappeasable messages.  Also a horse got in my fort a lil bit after it left the fps was still sporadic.  My layout is rather simplistic and I'm not using burrows or anything so I don't think pathing is the cause. especial since I only have 17 dwarves.

[Oglokoog]

You might want to consider uploading the save somewhere so various people can take a look at it.

[Urist the Dwarven Pirate]

well what ever it was it seems too have went away. Kinda. I betting on some weirdness in the caverns. 

[BubbaBrown]

Is the fluxing of "FPS" consistent with fluxing CPU usage?

[haywire]

Is your fort usually sealed off from the outside world?  It might have been a goblin ambush or two that was invisible and eventually they went away.

[Foxbyte]

Sounds like an intermittent burst of path-finding going on. Ambushes spawning, or lots of dwarves taking similarly distanced jobs all at once.