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I just had my militia captain(copper helm and mail shirt) hit 8 or 9 times by a Goblin master bowman. Medical screen says he has "lost ability to stand" and lots of other nasty stuff but it doesnt stop him from partying around the clock or killing more Goblins during their annual sieges...

Happens at times, the poor recruit that stood next to him was hit only twice, in both legs, but bled out quick.

Maybe, since Toady One announced he already has a large number of bugs fixed for a new release, DFG will come out after this next release is out, simply to save Mike Mayday time converting the data from 31.18 to 31.19 and THEN from 31.19 to 31.20?

That's only a guess though. I'm super-eager nonetheless: I like the repack anallyst posted but still would like the official release of DFG.

My fort just turned into the mountainhome and the king arrived with his full entourage. Sounds all sweet and nice but there is a minor problem. Everyone of them are just friendly units and not my own dwarves. All they do is chill out at the edge of the map. Did I hit a bug of some kind or do they turn to my units at some point? If they don't is there a way through some dwarven magic (cheat) make them do that?

Quote from: Khift on September 02, 2010, 07:09:51 am

Quote from: Gorjo MacGrymm on September 01, 2010, 08:57:30 pm

Really Khift?  Thats not right.  My I7 handles that with no prob. All I get is a small drop from 100 fps to around 75-90 depending on what is specifically happening.  I think you should work with your print buffers, cuz 8fps is really wrong for an I7

I honestly couldn't tell you why it's so slow. I know the map has a ridiculous amount of z-levels (162 in total) but no more walkable space than any other map. I honestly suspect that my installation of DF is somehow screwed; my next map I'll be using a different tileset than Mayday's to see if it helps any.

Also, what does printing have to do with DF?

Sorry, I wasnt very clear, I meant this from the Init files:

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These settings can have a significant impact on frame rate, especially for people that have slow frame rates on the title screen.  Available modes are 2D, 2DSW, 2DASYNC, STANDARD, PARTIAL:<number>, ACCUM_BUFFER, FRAME_BUFFER and VBO. The number after PARTIAL refers to how many frames it will redo a printed tile before skipping it, so you might try increasing it a bit if you have flickering when PARTIAL is set.  Please note that any of these combinations might cause frame rates to drop significantly or cause unpleasant side effects like flickering.

By and large, 2D should be the most reliable, while STANDARD has a good combination of speed and reliability. However, all 2D modes are normally far slower than even STANDARD, which may be the slowest OpenGL mode.

2DASYNC may be slightly more responsive than 2D on a multi-core machine, but this has recently become doubtful due to improvements to the other modes.

Linux/OS X users may also use PRINT_MODE:TEXT for primitive ncurses output.

[PRINT_MODE:STANDARD]
Mode examples:
PRINT_MODE:2D
PRINT_MODE:TEXT
PRINT_MODE:FRAME_BUFFER
PRINT_MODE:PARTIAL:0
[SINGLE_BUFFER:NO]

I echo the above sentiments of having fewer farmers. My single legendary +5 planter with a 192 square farm produces more food than my 220 dwarf fortress can even PROCESS, let alone eat. If I were to allocate all of my labor to the food industry I still wouldn't have enough haulers to deal with the sheer mass of product he produces; I don't really have a need to, though, because I have 17,000 lavish meals built up and the entire industry has been off for years now.

Go with one planter. Press (o) and then (h) to make sure that only he harvests because harvesting gives you skill in planting and you want him to level up as fast as possible. Once he hits legendary you can revert that and let other dwarves harvest for him, though.

Also, 192 tiles is way overkill. Most of that went towards my cloth industry, but even still half or more of it went to food and this lead directly to my massive overstock of food.

Quote from: candylord on August 30, 2010, 05:22:46 am

Hey guys, does number of caged animals have an effect on FPS?
cause I've got something like 10 pages of animals, but they're all caged
I'm going on a mass slaughetering spree, converting all  10 of my craftsdwarves into my butcheries...
will this help my FPS at all, or am I just wasting my time?
I've already dammed my river, drained my moats, and put graphical FPS to 5, but I still can't get anything over 10-12 FPS
any tips?

Caged creatures shouldn't effect your fps, its their running around everywhere that makes more work for your cpu and drops your fps.

Some things i've found that improve my fps
Wall off any areas that your dwarfs dont need to go to. - like long corridors that dont lead to anything - wall them off.

Try to avoid building rooms or corridors that have multiple exits or entrances, one way systems work best i.e you enter the kitchen area - you have to leave by the same way you came in.

Avoid vast amounts of stockpiles, this creates more cpu problems when you have a large amount of dwarfs looking for an item, they (your comp) checks every stockpile for it.
Trade off or give away any stuff you dont need to caravans, more items on your map is more work for your cpu.

Get used to using ramps instead of stairs for z level movement - ramps are more restrictive so less choices for dwarfs to path to different tiles. Huge z level staircases are apparently quite bad for your fps if you have 100 dwarfs using it frequently.

Avoid using doors - these slow down the pathfinding as well