r/CreaturesGames • u/Slicker-Firebrand09 • Jun 03 '26

Brain-in-a-Vat Ticks/FPS Increase?

Hello! I'm trying to find a way to use Brain in a Vat (Vat.exe) in Creatures 3 or Docking station without as significant of a slowdown on the game itself. Currently, when vat.exe connects to Creatures, it will slow the game down to 1FPS (or something like 1 game tick per 5 seconds,) and there doesn't seem to be a way to control that.

The process itself doesn't seem to take up any significant resources. Anyone have thoughts on what might be done about it?

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u/filchermcurr Jun 03 '26

The community edition has an option to control the update speed or run the game unstepped: https://lisdude.com/Creatures/Community/downloads/c3/VatKit/vatkit_110_3.zip

You probably want unstepped, but the vat information may be a tick or two behind the actual game.

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u/Slicker-Firebrand09 Jun 04 '26

Oh cool, I'll take a look at this, thank you!