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Below 25

2 (1.4%)

25 to 50

22 (15.1%)

50 to 100

68 (46.6%)

100+

54 (37%)

Total Members Voted: 145

[Jake]

[uel=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59442.0]This thread[/url] set me to wondering just how fast you folks want the game to be.
For my part, I've come to prefer capping it at around 50, for no better reason than the fact it lets me leave the game unpaused while I check my email or make myself a cup of tea without worrying too much about coming back to find half the fortress flooded or on fire.

[Qiu]

More than 100. I usually have a tendency to "overplan" and keep pausing. So when i finally decide to let the game play, i like it going fast.  (not that my computer gives me any choice in that matter anyway)...

[Krelos]

I always cap it at 100 but only start to really dislike it when it gets below 50.

Usually for the first year I could have it up to 300, but if I do that then it feels like crawling death when it gets down to 70.

[Urist McDepravity]

50-100 range. Above 100 is too fast.

[Nolor]

As fast as it can go, so preferably +100. All of the important things you can do (building, designating, adding tasks) pause the game, so there's no such thing as 'too fast' for me.

[Fedor]

Early in the game, I cap framerate at 100 and like it to be that, or pretty close.

The larger, more complex, and more populous my forts get, the more I need to keep tabs on, and so the slower my preferred framerate goes, down to 80, 70, or in extreme cases 50 FPS.  The problem is that the game's actual framerate drops a heck of a lot faster!

[Tarran]

100. I just like the speed. When my fortresses go below 50 I start to get upset.
Also: you messed up the url tag with uel.

[thijser]

I like it around 70. But usually I can only have this the first year after that it usaully starts going towards the 50 and old forts are often around 20-30

[Hyndis]

I have mine capped at 500 FPS. This means early on when its slow and there are only a few dwarves the game moves very very quickly. Which is good because it takes forever to get things done when there are only a few dwarves.

Later on with a larger fortress my FPS tends to hover around 60-70ish.

[Cruxador]

I keep it capped at 40. On this computer, I have never dipped below that. I like this speed because I can plan things out, then surf the internet pointlessly for a while, then do some designations or whatever, and I can play a game over the course of a week or more while still getting plenty else done simultaneously.

[Agdune]

Well, my FPS has never gone above 30 outside of a menu screen and usually runs at about 12-16 during later gameplay. So bringing the entirety of my game experience to bear on the matter, I guess 30 is pretty good?

[Retro]

I kind of like it around 25, actually. I occasionally spend weeks at a time paused so it's a good pace to be able to keep and eye on everything. Generally I get like 5-ish anyhow so the whole poll is kind of moot anyhow.

[Jimmy]

Yikes, can't believe that people would play below 25. I consider under 40 to be abandon material. 70ish is fine, but ideally I'd take over 100. You do the important stuff in paused mode anyhow, so why not have the game run fast when possible.

I really hope Toady takes time to slip a little optimization into the game for improving FPS before he moves onto the next arc. If we have any more features weighing down the processing speed we're going to have 20fps at startup.

[Christes]

On my old computer, getting above 30-40 on anything more than the starting seven was unusual.  I  kinda got used to that.

[Africa]

I like fast speeds, around 80, because buildings go up so fast/mines get dug out so fast. it gets a little crazy when combat is going on at that speed - it's hard to micromanage, but luckily most combat happens later in the game when the fps is lower. For that, maybe 40-50 would be good. I don't like it slower than that, but once my forts get to reasonable size, it's unavoidable that it drops lower and lower till I quit due to single digit fps.