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Dangazzm

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FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« on: August 14, 2011, 11:03:45 am »
Ok so I am experiencing end game crawl now. Running at around 50 FPS usually when I have it set to 300... or was trying to hah cause I wanna get some more stuff going on without so much waiting. Anyways I don't really wanna disable clothing or anything like that I have a nice computer specs:

2.5 quad core
5GB RAM

Dunno if video card has ANYTHING to do with it, doubting it but its a GTX 460 SE Nvidia. Is it running on a single core? Is there a way to tell it to.. take more? I raised its priority to high and still nothing. Even when just embarking I only get like 120 FPS =/ just curious if everyone has this or if it is fixable I guess hah.

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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 11:13:42 am »
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Maximizing_framerate

and really 50 fps on an old large fort is pretty good
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2011, 11:35:49 am »
Thank you everyone it is exactly as I have feared hah. Although is there a way for me to... explicitly state use my 4th core? I assume the computer uses them in order right? so then that means that the 4th core is more than likely less used.

Reading the wiki also it states that there is some option for OpenGL I assume that would nullify my need for reducing the GPS cause it would offload it to my video card?

See I think I need to ask how the hell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLHMC8hFk4&feature=channel_video_title he gets such high FPS hah. Hes running at around 300. Beginning fortress... however like I said mine only goes up to like 120 MAX.
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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2011, 11:46:43 am »
Whats your print mode option set to?
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2011, 12:21:30 pm »
[PRINT_MODE:2D]
   Mode examples:
    PRINT_MODE:2D
    PRINT_MODE:TEXT
    PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
    PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

Is that the section of the init?
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2011, 02:58:13 pm »
Yep. I STRONGLY reccomend changing to [PRINT_MODE:VBO] (fastest for me on older intel dual core laptop via XP) or [PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:2] (fastest on newer intel single quad core via Windows 7). Partial can cause flickery behaviour so change the number to one that suits you or use VBO. 2D is one of the slowest print modes IIRC.
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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2011, 03:59:24 pm »
PARTIAL:0 might be better, but doesn't work as often.
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2011, 04:07:37 pm »
Quote from: Naxza on August 14, 2011, 11:15:50 am
Dwarf Fortress only uses one core, though it may take a second core for the visual display- something that barely effects framerate.

Visual display has a pretty significant effect on my framerate, as shown by the effects of things like G_FPS and PRINT_MODE, and by the fact that I get poor framerate when looking at levels with lots of blinking objects and stains.  Admittedly, my computer is an oldie.
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2011, 04:11:46 pm »
Gah it doesn't seem to make a difference doing VBO sadly. However I couldn't even get past the main menu with PARTIAL I tried a bunch of numbers but they all seemed to have similar if not the same effect. Nearly seizure inducing flashing hah. I guess I shall play around with it some more...
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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2011, 08:22:09 pm »
Max your GPS at 30.

Also: Dual cores rule. Your quadcore is weak sauce.
« Last Edit: August 14, 2011, 08:25:29 pm by tolkafox »
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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2011, 09:33:14 pm »
I am starting to feel that way... set my GPS to 20 and still no go it may have gotten worse! argh. It isn't a HUGE deal I guess I can still play... but yea know... not how I want lol.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2011, 10:37:41 pm »
Quote from: Dangazzm on August 14, 2011, 11:35:49 am
Thank you everyone it is exactly as I have feared hah. Although is there a way for me to... explicitly state use my 4th core? I assume the computer uses them in order right? so then that means that the 4th core is more than likely less used.
Your OS handles that. It'll portion out processes to different cores in an effort to keep any one core from hitting 100% (and thus slowing things down). As such, it's very likely DF has a core all to its own that it's using 100% of.



Anywho first thing I'd suggest is turning off temperature if you haven't already. Got me a very large boost in frame rate.
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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2011, 02:18:11 am »
Quote from: kaijyuu on August 14, 2011, 10:37:41 pm
Quote from: Dangazzm on August 14, 2011, 11:35:49 am
Thank you everyone it is exactly as I have feared hah. Although is there a way for me to... explicitly state use my 4th core? I assume the computer uses them in order right? so then that means that the 4th core is more than likely less used.
Your OS handles that. It'll portion out processes to different cores in an effort to keep any one core from hitting 100% (and thus slowing things down). As such, it's very likely DF has a core all to its own that it's using 100% of.



Anywho first thing I'd suggest is turning off temperature if you haven't already. Got me a very large boost in frame rate.

Doesn't that like turn off magma hurting things as well? Which is OK I guess but yea know that sucks still hard hah.

BTW seemed to make very little difference for me... Got up from 40-50 to 50-60 Didn't try a fresh embark yet though. Though I would know what it would turn into in the end heh.
« Last Edit: August 15, 2011, 02:27:43 am by Dangazzm »
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Re: FPS Increasing Without Changing The Game?
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2011, 04:37:42 am »
Heck, i get 15 fps with 150 or above dorfgs, so TBH you are lucky to get what you have.
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2011, 10:02:56 am »
You can try increasing the priority in the init file or through task manager.
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