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Sting_Auer

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Saving my FPS.
« on: January 17, 2012, 08:50:02 pm »

What is the best way? I'm considering making a "purging chamber" for all my unneeded dwarves.
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Thank you everyone for the help! I've since flooded the fortress I was working on and now have a new one going up.

Aleksander

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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 09:20:44 pm »

Lock them outside during a siege.
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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2012, 09:23:59 pm »

Burrow them all in a 1x1 tower, no walls. That's 20z high. Surround it with magma.
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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2012, 09:24:27 pm »

Lock them outside during a siege.

I SHALL NOT GIVE THE GOBLINS THE SATISFACTION OF SLAYING MY UNWANTEDS.


I'm considering a rube goldberg machine... Any suggestions?
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knutor

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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2012, 09:35:01 pm »

Any suggestions?

Breed them.  Make more. 

To lower the FPS in an evolved fortress, go into the z, stock menu and hide a whole bunch of stuff in there, that you plan on never really needing to see again, like...  Food, clothing, stones, etc..  The less you gotta draw on the screen the faster your FPS will end up becoming.  Keep your dwarfs. Dwarfocide is not the answer.  *shiver*  And turn off your microphone when you mention it, or the little bearded fellas will march on out of your screen and weapon trap your refrigerator.

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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2012, 10:35:07 pm »

go into the z, stock menu and hide a whole bunch of stuff in there, that you plan on never really needing to see again, like...  Food, clothing, stones, etc..  The less you gotta draw on the screen the faster your FPS will end up becoming.

Simply hiding the items will not have any significant impact on your framerate, since the game spends far more time doing temperature updates on those items than it does displaying them on the screen. Mass dump and atomsmash as many items as you can, then maybe your framerate will go up. Also, wall off abandoned areas of your fortress (e.g. old mining shafts) so your dwarves don't have to waste time considering them when pathfinding.
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Re: Saving my FPS.
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2012, 11:21:57 pm »

Are all the pets dead or in cages yet?

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