Temporary solution for poor graphical frame rate
So quick story. I followed some tutorials on how to port the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress over to my MacBook Pro using Wine, and laughed at the fact it performed better than my gaming laptop with an i7 and RTX 2070. I do understand the game currently uses the integrated GPU, but the ported version isn't even native yet on Mac. When it is, that will be sweet!
TLDR Here is the fix for poor performance. Lower your game resolution to 1280x720. It's that simple. Yes the game is not as crisp, and you can't zoom out as far, but for now this is a great simple solution. Game is buttery smooth.
I have a 27" 1440p monitor and found this acceptable. Definitely excited an update with a fix, but happy I can focus on the game!
Posted Dec 16, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC · edited
My laptop also ran it better than my huge much nicer desktop. I was very confused, thinking about multithreading or blah blah, but yeah I have a 1440p screen on this one and 1080p on the laptop, so resolution could indeed be it.
Edit: nope, no difference
Had the same problem, setting game resolution to 1080p did not fix it, but setting the monitor resolution in windows and Nvidia control panel to 1080p completely solved the problem.
I just tried that, it helped a little bit but not much. I was at 55 FPS before on my most laggy fort, and it went up to like 65 out of 100 instead.
(It runs at 100 solid on any new fort, and you can see it flickering up to like 150+ it "wants" to be at before whatever process limits it but didn't do so before displaying lol. So if we take at least 150 as initial, and it dropped by 100 by the time I got to 100 dwarves wirhout even a mist generator, then that would imply only about 10% of the slowdown was recovered by monitor resolution)