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@Peewee: If they're really just animated suits of armor, "why are they so deadly?"

Do you have any idea what's causing this? I'd really like to be able to play DF.

I voted for "slower than 40d, problems."
My monitor is running at 60Hz.
All tests are done with an 8x10 region genned in 40d with a bunch of features.
Partial print off. Turning partial print:2 on causes wacky flickering.

40d, 9999fps, 20gfps:
thousands of menu fps, paused fps=~160. Normal.
20 paused gfps, due to the limit
~25fps due to major jerkiness, as described in this post.
~1gfps, which is the major jerkiness

40d5, 9999fps, 20gfps:
~1600 paused fps
~1 paused gfps, wacky.
~5fps due to major jerkiness, as described in that post.
~0.3gfps, which is the major jerkiness

40d5, 200fps, 30gfps:
166 paused fps
30 paused gfps
~20fps due to major jerkiness, as described in that post.
~1.5gfps, which is the major jerkiness

40d5, 100fps, 60gfps:
82.5 paused fps
60 paused gfps
~30fps due to major jerkiness, as described in that post.
~2gfps, which is the major jerkiness

Wiki. Read it.
Another helpful wiki page.

After about an in-game month of playing the last few games I've played, all in 40d, everything frequently pauses for a moment, reducing effective fps from 125 to 25.

After I think about it, this might've occured after I updated my drivers for my Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. It also appears to affect worlds genned in 40d exclusively.

Windows XP.

EDIT: This is also happening really bad in 40d5 with a world genned in 40d.

EDIT2: According to another guy, setting fps at 10x monitor refresh rate and gfps at 2x monitor refresh rate helps some.

EDIT2: Also, according to Baughn, this is fixed in 40d6. Which isn't out at the time of writing this.

I agree with your ideas, although I would quibble on a few details of the implementation.

My viewpoint on this topic is that Toady's gonna get to it when Toady's gonna get to it, and we, the forum (which is affected by the wiki), don't have any say in the small stuff.

...oh god. I've got an 8x11 embark region with ~64 z-levels, a pit, a cave, a magma pool, HFS, (35 visible creatures), a brook, and a terrific waterfall, but temp and weather off. I'm getting 180fps. I'm getting one hundred and eighty frames per second.

Given that I used to get that on a ~35 z-level 4x4 embark region with nothing but magma, a small brook, sand, and more sand, that's pretty fricking awesome.