Hello, Bay 12!
I've just recently gotten into Dwarf Fortress, and it is taking over my life! I enjoy it immensely.
However, I was hoping someone could try to help me with some strange, inconsistent performance issues I'm having with the game. I hope this is the right place to post this.
See, I started using DF with the Lazy Newb Pack. It run, but it was only after seeing it (The game, no LNP) run on my old MacBook did I realize that 25 FPS on my PC was faaar too slow. So I removed the Newb Pack and all graphics and played it vanilla. It ran great!
So I thought the problem was with LNP, and decided to try and install Phebus' graphics manually. It slowed down performance to 1 (1) FPS. Disappointed, I preserved the save files, and wiped the DF folders clean.
However, it's still running just as slow!
I've tried fiddling with the init.txt a little, but I admit I don't know what I'm doing. I've updated the drivers for the video card to the latest October version and I've found an old post that suggested I force V-Sync off for the game in the drivers' settings, so I did that. No change!
I don't understand the cause of this at all... Could someone please help?? I want to play this game, and if my shitty old MacBook can run it, how can't my sweet PC?
I have:
Windows 7 32-bit
Quad Core AMD Athelon 3.0Ghz
Nvidia GForce 9800 GT
SATA HDDs.
Please help, and if I didn't write all the info that might assist in solving this, please let me know and I'll do my best to help you help me!
Thanks,
LunarBlade.