Lag!!

[Steel God]

After some time I have built so many items that I get a lot of lag. Any advice?

[Phoenix Cat]

Are they all near your base in one area? You can spread them further out into different biomes if they are all bunched together.

[Steel God]

In some cases yes. I'm in the market for a new pc. I think that may be an issue. I can run other games no problem. Valheim, Enshrouded etc... Any advice is great.

[Markus]

The lag is terrible. Worse than ever before.

[DarkEternal]

I'm playing on Very High, 100fps, no lag even in a base with dozens of T2 storage lockers and auto-crafters.
Keep your heaters/drills away from your base. I use a portal and have them set up on the east side of the map near the crashed stargate.
T3 tree spreaders are in groups of 8 around a T2 machine optimizer in various locations around the map. Again with portals cuz F walking that far.
Butterfly farms are also kept a distance away since all of those butterfly models can slow things down.
The only things I keep close by are T2 gas extractors and T2 bee hives since I need those resources handy and don't want my drones being forced to go halfway across the map for them when needed.
Lake water collectors and T2 algae collectors I keep out on the lake that was the basin I landed in. They don't load up unless I get in range.
Basically, anything you can keep close that you need, do it. Anything else put far enough out that it's not loaded in while you're in your base. Especially ore extractors.

[Steel God]

It's the butterfly farms that cause it. Guess I should move them. I'm still getting a new rig.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by Steel God:

It's the butterfly farms that cause it. Guess I should move them. I'm still getting a new rig.

I've got a fairly nice rig and even then, too much going on in my immediate vicinity can cause a bit of of lag when loading in and makes my temps go up a bit. It's just better for your rig and sanity if you spread things out as soon as you can in every playthrough.

[Gabbiani, Tyrant of the Red Star]

This game has weird performance issues in general. My laptop with a 3050ti runs the game better at 1080p than my main PC with an RX6800 GPU and 5800X3D CPU. Certain effects seem to crush my main PC.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Steel God:

It's the butterfly farms that cause it. Guess I should move them. I'm still getting a new rig.

the problems are with the game. getting better hardware to brute force things will only go so far.

this is true in general with a lot of modern software, but this game really is quite jank.

[DarkEternal]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by Steel God:

It's the butterfly farms that cause it. Guess I should move them. I'm still getting a new rig.

the problems are with the game. getting better hardware to brute force things will only go so far.

this is true in general with a lot of modern software, but this game really is quite jank.

This isn't a AAA game. You have to give and take.

[DiFtz]

I think they could solve the lag problem, if they implements DLSS technology... for RTX cards...

[Mr. Fibble]

Using optimisers and fuses will also help performance hits by boosting the production of machines so you don't have to build as many of them. Even with them as an option I still choose to build things away from the main base because I don't want to hear the constant noise from nuclear reactors or pressure drills

It's a common problem with 3d factory games, the more things in an area that need to exist and often be animated the harder the PC has to work.

[Fluboxer]

best way is to spread your stuff away so game won't nuke performance trying to calculate every butterfly in the area next to you

2nd best way is getting PC with good CPU - especially in terms if IPC (aka single core performance - even in 2024 multi-threading barely used)

[Steel God]

My wife is playing with me now, I'll have her do all the leg work.