I don't even notice when my FPS runs out- wait, I should clarify that. I don't even notice that there is something abnormal in the fact that my FPS runs out. Since I always forget to cap my dwarves, and caping it after a fort is started doesn't work, I regularly end up with 200+ dwarves. Yeah, it is slow, but I just accept that as part of the game. I'm on a MacBook (with VISTA on a partition, for my sins), not a pro, so I'm used to slow. I was running a 1982 Mac 512K last week, it was very slow, run entirely off of diskettes. It was very calming. The Zen of FPS. I've been unemployed for almost a year, with college debts and all, and every time I hear the you should just update (buy new laptop/upgrade graphics card,CPU,change over to Windows/Linux/Vatican-made pope-blessed OS/et al.)" I just want to hurt people, and wanting to hurt people is damaging to the FPS Zen State. Would I like a new computer? Yes. Would I like Dwarf Fortress to run as well as ME2 ran of my college roomate's 360? Yes. Do I have a recurring fantasy where Toady One and Notch write up detailed, informative, game-centered blogposts, alternating days? Oh Yhwh, yes. But because none of these things are remotely coming to pass anytime soon, I remain as content as i can, watching a Fortress slow- mature, if you will, that early rush and bloom of youth fading, an older fort taking its time, slowly, methodically, but less likely to make mistakes.
And until the military interface works in a logical, non-Byzantine fashion, invasions are always turned off at the Cespinarve household.