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[Aln]

I've never had this problem, but it just started, and about ever 5 seconds (yes I counted) the game freezes for a couple more seconds, and it just keeps repeating.

[Aquillion]

Is this just happening while controlling your fortress in fortress mode, or is it happening everywhere?  Does it happen when the game is paused, or just when the fortress is running?  Does it happen in menus?

If it just happens when the fortress is running, then it sounds like an ugly pathfinding situation to me.  Something is trying to find a path every five seconds or so, and lagging the entire system when it does so.  Presumably it's succeeding, or you'd get errors, but it's taking forever.

Just my guess, anyway.

[Maximus]

I just tried locking several wardogs into a room near the chasm as a standing army -- only they're freezing up my game every few seconds as they ? ? ? over and over trying to find Master.  :eek:

[wakkawa]

I have this same problem.  It used to happen a lot when a caravan arrived.  But now its just happening all the time.

[Quintin Stone]

Turn off "gather minerals" and see if it still does it.

For me, the pause seems to be the scan to check on whether or not raw stone needs to be moved to a stockpile or not.  Well, I have so much raw stone around my fortress that this check takes a very noticeable amount of time.  When I turn off gather minerals, the scan does not happen and I do not get the lag every 5 seconds.

[ September 25, 2006: Message edited by: Quintin Stone ]