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[Booboo]

I have a CPU "AMD Turion X2 Mobile Technology Tl-52 1.6GHZ" and i have for graphics card a "ATI Radeon Xpress Series" my computer is a laptop with dual cores and the fps is capped at 30 even on a desert map.

My computer came installed with Vista and i tried running Dwarf Fortress with Xp but there waas no improvement athough i did not find drivers for XP when i tried it with XP.

Please help what could it be? does my cpu just suck? i think 30 fps is pretty low, on my home computer i get over 200.

[Ltheb]

I had the same problem. It's Vista 100%. I installed Xp on the machine after I got fed up with Vista. DF now runs 10x as fast even while other memory intensive programs are running. In short: While you may have a dual core computer, vista does NOT take advantage of it.
If it isn't Vista, then I don't know. My comp has 2 crappy Intel chips and it runs DF just fine.

[ June 05, 2007: Message edited by: Ltheb ]

[ June 05, 2007: Message edited by: Ltheb ]

[Heliopios]

change the max FPS in init.txt

[Booboo]

I have my FPS.ini set to 100 already, so i must not have done something right when i tried DF on XP because i dual installed XP on my laptop and tried to run Dwarf fortress that way. mabe if i go and download the graphics card drivers for my windows XP operating system too? i guess ill reinstall xp and try again.

[Toady One]

Yeah, having the right drivers has been very important for people.  That might be the problem.

[Jaqie Fox]

Find out what the actual parts in your system are... for example, most sound cards say they are x y or z brand but are really just Realtek ALC8xx series or lower.  Reference drivers are 99% of the time the best driver for every single device in a system, even laptops.  Your video card is a Radeon x series? go gnab the newest radeon driver from ati.amd.com and the same for every part in your system.  Ive even had a SATA driver change framerates of DF.

It's a cardinal rule of mine to update all drivers possible in a computer with the newest available reference drivers at least once every 3 months.

[herrbdog]

Heh, my cardinal rule is DON'T UPGRADE NUTHIN LESS YOU NEED TO! Drivers,hardware, software...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Of course, 'need' is completely subjective...

[Axle Gear]

It's Vista.

I get 50-80 FPS regularly on my machine (see below) but on another machine much better with Vista, it drags ass at 20-40 FPS (see below)

My System:
AMD Athlon 64 Venice, 1.8 GHz core, 1 GHz HT
2 GB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR 2.0-3-2-6 timings
ATI Radeon x550 video

Vista System:
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe, 2.93GHz core 1066 MHz FSB
2 GB PC2-6400 DDR2 dual channel, 4-4-4-12 timings
ATI Radeon x1950 video

[Vugor]

if you think 20-40 FPS is lagging butt, try getting at max 7-10 FPS with vista.   :mad:

[Nite/m4re]

Hey, *I* am the legendary necromancer here!   :mad:

[Puzzlemaker]

I have only played DF on my new Vista laptop...

So is the low FPS not normal, then?

[Eagle of Fire]

Way to go to necro a 8 month old thread, pal.

BTW, DF do not take advantage of dual cores. If you have a dual core, DF will only work on one which mean it will run only at half your computer capacity.