Game Speed

[Reese]

Ive been watching some videos and it looks like there are only two speeds. Paused and play. Looks like things move pretty quick on play.. is there a slower game speed? Or is it not needed? Never played before... just curious.

[Saica-Fox]

u will find pause and normal speed enough cuz things will get crazy as game goes on

[Lemunde]

Currently there's an FPS cap in the settings file which affects how fast the game runs. It defaults to 100. Most players leave it alone because over time the game slows down anyway from too many dwarves and too many items. I don't know how much the update will affect this.

Edit: To add I believe there's a game key that lets adjust the speed during play, but I don't think I've every used it.

[clinodev]

You can set your calculation and graphical FPS. They're normally set at 100 and 30.

[Ironbuket]

It was only when watching the recent streams that I noticed the lack of game speeds. Playing in ascii I never really thought about it, but now with speed control buttons appearing on screen. It made me think it looked similar to Stellaris controls, except where were the incremental steps in speed.

In one of the kitfox streams they tried focusing the camera on a dwarf and following it. They only had pause and unpause, zip – where did it go. Would be nice to have finer control on speed to follow what is going on when there is combat going on for example. I once played DF on an atom processor and I sure didn’t need to slow it down then. But some people have really fast rigs these days. Although game may slow down itself over time, I don’t think that is really an answer to the question, why there cant be more speed control without having to mess around in the game settings.

[RandomNPC]

You can press . while paused to manually advance time 1 tick.

[MikeT57]

I went into the settings/ keybindings tab in there are 2 settings , increase and decrease fps limit respectively.... the defaults are ALT = and ALT -,... I Added 2 new buttons, the + and - on the Numpad... just keep hitting them to adjust the playing speed

[Macawesome75]

You can also use alt+= to increase speed, and alt+- to decrease speed

[CRUUBAKKA]

Originally posted by RandomNPC:

You can press . while paused to manually advance time 1 tick.

I don't think this is a feature anymore.

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by RandomNPC:

You can press . while paused to manually advance time 1 tick.

I was searching this in the keybindings too :)
Could not find it.

[Frission]

I don't see how to adjust calculation fps, just graphical. Any help? The game's moving WAY too fast for me ;( Suddenly it's autumn and I've barely started D:

[Tonus]

There's also an FPS counter. It's actually showing turns per second and frames per second in parentheses. Pressing alt+ and alt- can increase and reduce the turns per second value.