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Factorio is driving me to upgrade my 2015 i7-5820K based computer. I've been playing with 2 sets of mods, "Bob's" and "Angel's" which increase the complexity of
by bloopernova 5y ago
Factorio is driving me to upgrade my 2015 i7-5820K based computer. I've been playing with 2 sets of mods, "Bob's" and "Angel's" which increase the complexity of Factorio by at least 1 order of magnitude.
To run a base large enough to produce everything I want has dropped the speed from 60 updates+frames per second to about 40, with each addition further slowing the whole thing down.
It would be an interesting exercise to see how much complexity one could add to a Factorio map before the updates/sec start to drop. I'm hoping that a new AMD chip will be able to handle a much, much larger base/map before slowing down again. EDIT: To actually finish my thought here: You could test different CPU/RAM configurations with a series of maps of increasing complexity.
- 130e13a 5y agoI seem to remember reading somewhere on the forums or the subreddit that for Factorio, memory speed is a lot more important than CPU/GPU performance (in terms of the UPS gains you can achieve by improving either of them)
- bombcar 5y agoYes the simulation basically reads and writes all RAM each tic. So if your RAM is slow upgrading that gets you the biggest performance increase.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoYeah my K2 + SE run now allocates ~98% of all my available RAM. I have to upgrade my computer to load the map if any other applications are open (something is also messed up with my swap, it just grinds to a halt)