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2 (1.4%)

25 to 50

22 (15.1%)

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68 (46.6%)

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54 (37%)

Total Members Voted: 145

[ed boy]

I like to keep it nice and high(100-200) during regular gameplay, but I slow it right down (10-20) when there's a battle going on, so you can see it progress blow by blow.

[Lightning4]

I would prefer anything above 50, but I'll tolerate it down to about 25. Once it dips below that, it starts getting a bit too slow.

My current fort is 17-18 FPS. Desperately trying to get some of it back, but it's no easy task with 200+ dwarves and 170+ animals roaming the damn fort, plus thousands of stone I need to deal with.

[Z1000000m]

In 0.3x lower than 90 i unacceptable for me. The skill loss turns dwarfs into turtles.

[Azrathud]

I prefer to have a FPS of about 200, but, with seeing I have a outdated computer and almost never reach that speed, I can hold out to having 50 FPS. I can't wait until I build a new computer.

[yarr]

I play with 300+ at embark.

Gets slow really fast tho, usually @ 120 fps with ~50 dwarves, everything below is just too slow.

[Retro]

In 0.3x lower than 90 i unacceptable for me. The skill loss turns dwarfs into turtles.

I feel like you don't fully understand what 'frames per second' is.

I consider under 40 to be abandon material.

Under 40? Really? By the time my forts hit 40 and start dropping, things are just starting to get good :\

[Christes]

Gets slow really fast tho, usually @ 120 fps with ~50 dwarves, everything below is just too slow.

0.o

Anything below the default upper cap is too slow for you?

[yarr]

Anything below the default upper cap is too slow for you?

Well, 100 is still playable I guess, maybe I was a bit harsh

But < 100 is where things go too slow, it gets annoying to wait for rooms to be digged out etc.

[Z1000000m]

In 0.3x lower than 90 i unacceptable for me. The skill loss turns dwarfs into turtles.

I feel like you don't fully understand what 'frames per second' is.

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version for slow drunken dwarfs

fast skill decay= dwarfs being very unagile= dwarfs being very slow , i can play with that
"low" fps= slower dwarfs even if they are all super agile, still bearable
fast skill decay + low fps = (boring)Tortoise Fortress

[Cotes]

I'm in no rush anywhere and it won't stay over 100 for long anyway, so that's the cap for me. Besides I sometimes screw up stuff by accidentally unpausing at the wrong time even around 70 FPS.

Lower FPS isn't exactly ideal, but it really only annoys me when it gets unstable (or ridiculously slow).

[Mandaril]

Usually my FPS starts as capped. It gradually wears down to ~25 to 50 at 200 dwarves. I consider that to be quite nice.

[Retro]

In 0.3x lower than 90 i unacceptable for me. The skill loss turns dwarfs into turtles.

I feel like you don't fully understand what 'frames per second' is.

version for slow drunken dwarfs

fast skill decay= dwarfs being very unagile= dwarfs being very slow , i can play with that
"low" fps= slower dwarfs even if they are all super agile, still bearable
fast skill decay + low fps = (boring)Tortoise Fortress

Your poor wording is not my fault. Since you weren't clear, you basically implied that low FPS caused dwarves to lose their skills faster. With that cleared up, though, refusing to play with less than 90 FPS is kind of ridiculous. The game starts capped at 100 by default; the ast majority of players would envy getting anything remotely close to that.

[Kazang]

Dwarfs lose agility over time?
That does make sense as I always wondered why dwarfs seemed so slow after a time when the fps is still high.

I consider less than 40 to be scaling back or abandon time. Depending on how promising it is looking at the time and how much fun potential, I will either abandon it and start a new fort or start mass culling of animals, stone and any other fps hurting things.
Obviously some do still get lower eventually but I generally prefer it 40+.  25 or less or what I consider unplayable. 

[bowdown2q]

psh. I cap at 500.  Protip: DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH WATER/MAGMA AT THAT RATE O_o. 
I pause like every 3 seconds so it works for me. it drops to ~130 and stays there by year 2 unless I've done something with fluids or over-mined.

Yeah, I've got a BEAST comp, so.  I benched it with the cap at ~2k.  It ran at about 750 on embark. A season passed before I could pause.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

It's just astounding how many people consider the top speeds I tend to ever see as "unplayable".

I don't even know how to elaborate on that.