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Help Forum How to activate fast mode?    Solariana      7/4/2013 This is a question to which I'm sure the answer is very simple; I just haven't been able to find it out yet. xD So, I was wondering - how exactly would I go about toggling fast mode on and off in C3 and DS? Is there a CAOS command? A hotkey? A sneaky little button? :3 Drawing today!   NimhsLab   7/4/2013  1 ctrl+shift+w, and then Ctrl+shift+f. If you get out of wolfling mode, it will stop fast mode automatically. [chirping and clicking] Clicks for a winter god! >   byebyebue   7/5/2013 What changes, exactly, occur in this mode? Is it like fastforward or does it effect the norns aging only?   Peppery One Papriko   7/5/2013 It affects your entire world. It is literally fast forward. It takes as much of your CPU and RAM as it can in order to run faster. Due to it's age it can not handle multiple cores, though. It only uses the power of 1 core. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   NimhsLab   7/5/2013 Fast ticks updates the screen less often, so the game can spend less time on graphics and more time doing things. (as papriko stated, it also hogs processing power, if you're running things other than ds/c3, it isn't going to make as much of a difference as just running ds/c3 would.) (and will probably slow down everything else, if the world is busy enough.) [chirping and clicking] Clicks for a winter god! >   Peppery One Papriko   7/5/2013 An idea I had was using a sorts-of-multiplayer. When you have a 4-core CPU, start DS 4 times in 4 different worlds. Using exporting and importing you can simulate a warp inside your own PC... Never coded that, though. Maybe I should try. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Moe     7/5/2013 ^ Assuming you can tell DS which core to set it's affinity too. It's a neat idea.   Solariana   7/10/2013  1 Thank you very much! D Yay, now I can do wolfing runs and not have to leave it out for so long. xD Drawing today!   Peppery One Papriko   7/11/2013 @Moe: Usually multicore systems try to distribute the work as evenly as possible between the cores. That means when you have 4 cores (I always use that as example since I have a 4 core CPU) and 4 apps draining a ton of resources, then it is pretty likely that each core takes one of them. 1-2 of them will probably run slightly slower than the others, due to the OS and other things still needing a tad bit of power too. Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis...   Brewer of Tales NornBreeder   7/11/2013 Is there a mode like this in C2 or C1?   Patient Pirate ylukyun Manager   7/12/2013 Nope, and it's pretty annoying.

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