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Bartok

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How do you slow the game down?
« on: April 25, 2011, 09:28:32 am »
I'm getting huge waves of dwarfs every 45 minutes or so.  I have wild parties, and 20+ idlers.  Seasons are just flying past...

Everyone seems to talk about trying to keep their frame rate up, but I really need mine to slow down and chill out :(

Is there anything I can do to slow things down a bit so that I can get my dwarfs organized without too much time going past?
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 09:33:24 am »
you could cap the frame rate
in data/init/init.txt change [FPS_CAP:100] to something lower
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 09:52:09 am »
1. Get a male and a female cat.
2. Wait for catsplosion.
3. FPS problem solved.
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2011, 11:05:32 am »
Pause a lot.
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2011, 12:36:58 pm »
Swooooorrrrrrd.
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2011, 12:48:09 pm »
Wanna swap computers?
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2011, 01:07:45 pm »
Connect infinite magma to infinite water  8)
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2011, 02:44:28 pm »
Quote from: cameron on April 25, 2011, 09:33:24 am
you could cap the frame rate
in data/init/init.txt change [FPS_CAP:100] to something lower

This, its what I do (I keep FPS cap at 60).  I find it not only makes the game a lot easier to follow but also delays the point where your FPS starts to drop out.

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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2011, 05:41:43 pm »
I set my FPS_CAP to 30.  I never give two craps about pausing, cats, or water flows.  I use all the methods to simplify computation and keep FPS up anyways, set traffic orders, atom-smash unwanted stuff, use Rock Grinders to get rid of worthless layer stone, spay/neuter the pet population (with or without magma), etc.

I never die FPS death this way.

I suppose some would consider it unplayably low FPS... but they're just used to super-fast death I suppose.
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2011, 07:23:32 pm »
Massive amounts of flowing water.
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Re: How do you slow the game down?
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2011, 11:10:54 am »
Thanks guys :)

I cranked it down to 50 FPS and that seems a lot more manageable!
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