I have noticed that when using hoder’s and tsu’s tilesets there was a severe fps drop when i am around a lot of items. I changed to the ascii version and had no problem at all. I don’t know if it is just my crappy computer, but it seems like i should be able to run the tiled version at full speed.
(edit) i just tried that retro tileset as well and had the same issues.
It has to do with the tile set code determining how to actually print items. IIRC the tile set version prints items on top of each other (or something similar) leading to much more slowdown then the curses version, which just prints the top item and then toggles the background color to blue.
Ok thanks after a couple hours playing in ascii i don’t even notice it anyway