![]() Most programs do not use more than one processor and the best use of a dual processor is to let DF have one to itself. Go into task manager and set the affinity of Dwarf Fortress to one processor, and then set all the programs that use significant resources to the other. ![]() Hardware- and OS-specific Advice Dual Processors Use of custom graphics sets, choice of graphics tileset.Fullscreen or windowed (if OpenGL settings are compatible with the game).The following things don't have a significant effect on game speed, at least as tested. Blocking off areas of the fortress entirely - especially (only?) with removable obstacles like drawbridges or forbidden doors - causes serious problems with pathfinding.Food stockpiles seem to be the worst offenders if your fortress overproduces food, you may see a progressive slowdown even if your population and pathing complexity don't change. Some observers suspect that having massive numbers of objects in stockpiles also impacts FPS others believe any effect is minor. ![]() Avoid designating very large areas for chopping, gathering, detailing, or mining, especially if many dwarves do these things.The AI for all of these has become more efficient of late and each one costs much less CPU time than a dwarf, but sheer numbers matter. Keep wandering pets and wild animals to a minimum and cage livestock.Use large hallways to connect any two spots where lots of dwarves will want to be. Narrow paths and bottlenecks cause the pathfinding algorithm to repeatedly recompute a faster route for each dwarf (and pet) as the paths empty and clear.Pathfinding for numerous dwarves can bring even a fast machine to its knees. Keep your population under control to prevent the game bogging down. You're well-advised to stick with "warm" or "hot" fortress sites if you turn temperature off and your source of water is a stream. It also kills off some rather nice lava warming effects, stops rivers from freezing and (importantly!) thawing, makes glacial maps less interesting, and prevents sudden deaths from exposure. Turns off temperature greatly increases speed. Handy indicator of how fast your game is running. Keep backups for safety and to save yourself having to re-enter values every time you upgrade. Edits to this file can greatly increase game speed. In the folder "\data\init" is a file named "init.txt". Most notably, trying to flood the world with magma can bring an otherwise speedy fortress to its knees in mere moments. Operating any device which causes water or magma floods will cause significant lag until the liquid finishes expanding or drying up. Updating your drivers usually works you may also have to adjust some settings in your graphic card's control software, such as turning vertical synchronization off. If framerate is extremely slow with an otherwise CPU-friendly fortress and a decent machine, your graphic card's interaction with the OpenGL code used by the game may be at fault.If you experience lag you may have to turn off multi-level view, or generate smaller worlds/embark on smaller areas with shorter histories in only the tens of years. Possibly even limit population to 120 at the lowest if you want to experience all the fortress mode offers It also includes DFhack which you can turn off, but it does add several bug fixes and tweaks as well as allow multi-level view(a fading view of lower levels below the one you're on) and other features The starter pack also has a bunch more tilesets, as well as many options for optimising the game and options you'd never see unless you dived into the games. Visit the dwarf fortress wiki page on tilesets for a (slightly outdated) comparison between some other graphic sets here: (DF2014 on the wiki means the most recent large(like, years in the making) version change of DF, it's still up to date) ![]() Like look at this Mayday vs Phoebus But I guess the closest to the cartoony/bright/super undwarfy clean look in the trailer(I'm totally not biased) has to be Spacefox But I'd recommend changing it to Mayday on the graphics tab, and then clicking install, as it's very clear (to me) and he also helped make the tileset in the trailer. For the easiest way to pick and choose them, download the Lazy Newb starter pack from the Dwarf Fortress forums: It is on Phoebus by default. Dwarf fortress has always had full graphics packs(and many mods on the forums) available. ![]()
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