MacOS alternatives to RimPY?

[anotherhannah]

I am playing on a fairly beefy mac laptop and have been having gameplay slowdowns that I think have to do with mod load order. I've carefully managed my list as best as I can but I want to know if something like RimPY could improve it further, since I have no real objective idea if my load order is any good or not. But RimPY is just for windows. Is there any alternate program that works for OS? Or alternatively, could someone look at my mod load order and see if there's anything terribly wrong?

[brian_va]

I believe the Linux build is running on qt4 or 5, if you Google how to install it on a Mac there are some instructions. You could probably run rimpy then, but that's really just a guess. Maybe go over to the rimpy mod page and ask the dev a question about it and see what you get.

You could also post your list and maybe something obvious will jump out to someone.

[Astasia]

Load order doesn't usually have any effect on general game performance. If your load order is wrong it will create errors, those errors might cause performance issues but they will also be logged. If you don't have any errors then your load order is very probably fine.

Load order errors are usually generated at game start, but when you are getting slowdown turn on dev mode and check the log to see if any errors are being spammed, that might point you to the cause. If there's no errors then it's just too much stuff going on.

[Paroe]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Load order doesn't usually have any effect on general game performance. If your load order is wrong it will create errors, those errors might cause performance issues but they will also be logged. If you don't have any errors then your load order is very probably fine.

Load order errors are usually generated at game start, but when you are getting slowdown turn on dev mode and check the log to see if any errors are being spammed, that might point you to the cause. If there's no errors then it's just too much stuff going on.

Dubs bad hygine and multiple large pipe networks alongside certain modded animals WILL drain performence, if youre rubbing dubs, centralized climate control, and CE be prepared to scuttle a colony every couple of rimyears because those three dont play nice.

That being said, Rimpy auto sort follows community generated rules that work pretty good in terms of solving load order issues. Rocketman, runtimeGC, and FPScontrol should also be considered.

[Astasia]

Sure but that's not a load order issues, it's more a compatibility issue and RimPy doesn't really help with indirect conflicts.

There are a lot of cases where Mod A, B, C and D all work well enough together if you have any combination of 2 or 3 of them, but if you combine all 4 together it creates an exponential drain on various game resources and can cause serious playability or loading issues. Which order you have them in on your modlist wont matter. There's not really a good way to sort these out ahead of time, it's not covered by general mod compatibility rules, there might be some guide out there somewhere that covers some of them, but for the most part it's a matter of getting a feel for what your mods do and how they react together and tailoring your mod list to what you find acceptable performance levels.