performance

[1997]

I'm having a blast in the game but my cooling fans sound really stressed all the time. The only other game that makes my PC sound like this is Far Cry 5 on Ultra settings.

Satisfactory is gorgeous, just the scenery and the day/ night cycle and all that... but I was wondering, which options put the most stress on your hardware? Any experience/tips? I was thinking on lowering foliage or AA but it doesn't seem to affect anything. The one thing I don't want to compromise is view distance but that's probably it. Anyone know which settings you can lower without affecting the experience too much? Thanks!

[Reaper]

This game is more CPU intensive the later in game you get, if you do not have a lot of RAM to store pre-loaded things in than your CPU has to constantly keep re-rendering things. If you have bases setup far away from where you are currently working the CPU still has to factor in what that base would be doing and how much resources it is processing, so the more things u build, the harder it hits your computer.

[[TE] Kuraudo]

I'm curious about the CPU intensity. I can't imagine it pushing things like Dwarf Fortress does. One second....

It's all gpu. Barely pushes 18% of a Ryzen 7 clocked at 4ghz. GPU load at 100% and fans firing up yup.

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♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what's with all the network IO? Yo, coffee stain, what are you sending to Tencent? (I'm joking, I know you're collecting gameplay statistics from the infobox in the menu <3)

Originally posted by Reaper:

This game is more CPU intensive the later in game you get, if you do not have a lot of RAM to store pre-loaded things in than your CPU has to constantly keep re-rendering things.

Rendering is a GPU task.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

It's all gpu. Barely pushes 18% of a Ryzen 7 clocked at 4ghz. GPU load at 100% and fans firing up yup.

I am going to bet you just looked at the total number of cores percentage load, which is a basic no no for gaming. Almost no games (especially anything running realtime) can ever hope to put any load on even half of your Ryzen 7's cores, let alone hard.

Most games have a main core/thread with things being offloaded to 2-3 additional cores as possible.

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Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

Rendering is a GPU task.

Except the CPU has to tell the system which data to send to the GPU too. They work together.

[[TE] Kuraudo]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

It's all gpu. Barely pushes 18% of a Ryzen 7 clocked at 4ghz. GPU load at 100% and fans firing up yup.

I am going to bet you just looked at the total number of cores percentage load, which is a basic no no for gaming. Almost no games (especially anything running realtime) can ever hope to put any load on even half of your Ryzen 7's cores, let alone hard.

Most games have a main core/thread with things being offloaded to 2-3 additional cores as possible.

You would be betting right and that's a good point. Guilty as charged. None the less, upon closer inspection GPU remains at 100% and my highest single core usage is at 12% and attributed to "Factory game-Win65" haha.

EDIT: Win64 dammit I know how to type I swear.

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

Rendering is a GPU task.

Except the CPU has to tell the system which data to send to the GPU too. They work together.

kay. The bottleneck isn't the CPU; it's the GPU.

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Originally posted by TE Kuraudo:

kay. The bottleneck isn't the CPU; it's the GPU.

Exactly which video card do you have? And what resolution are you running the game at?

[SnackRaider ･ﾟ✧]

I think there is a bug somewhere causing the GPU to run at 100% I have a 5700XT with a 1440p monitor and it maxes to 100% regardless of the graphics settings I choose. On Max/Min graphics I basically get the same performance too!

[Mansen]

That's.... not really how it works.

[HolyCrab]

Try capping your framerate below your monitors refresh rate with either Nvidia Control Panel or a third-party program such as Riviatuner. Without this, my PC was pushing 300+ frames at all times!

[Maconijnr]

ryzen 2600@4ghz and its barely ticking over lol my poor old 8gb rx580 however sounds like a jet engine though :D, also had to turn my GPU overclock off for the 1st time ever just to keep temps under control lol (max settings 1080p avg 147fps)

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Originally posted by Maconijnr:

ryzen 2600@4ghz and its barely ticking over lol my poor old 8gb rx580 however sounds like a jet engine though :D, also had to turn my GPU overclock off for the 1st time ever just to keep temps under control lol (max settings 1080p avg 147fps)

Do you actually have a 150 Hz monitor?

[Maconijnr]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Maconijnr:

ryzen 2600@4ghz and its barely ticking over lol my poor old 8gb rx580 however sounds like a jet engine though :D, also had to turn my GPU overclock off for the 1st time ever just to keep temps under control lol (max settings 1080p avg 147fps)

Do you actually have a 150 Hz monitor?

nope lol hence 1080p :) its an old 32" 75hz panel 1080p is max it can do without using the overdrive options to scale up :) besides my eyes arn't that great don't need to be making things even smaller lmao :D

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Originally posted by Maconijnr:

nope lol hence 1080p :) its an old 32" 75hz panel 1080p is max it can do without using the overdrive options to scale up :) besides my eyes arn't that great don't need to be making things even smaller lmao :D

Then make sure you enable Vsync in the in-game settings. And make sure the game is set to "Full screen" mode in settings. It's not "Real full screen" but at least it's enough to make vsync work. That's why your video card is screaming: It's rendering extra frames your monitor can't display. With vsync on you can keep your overclock options on too.

[Maconijnr]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Maconijnr:

nope lol hence 1080p :) its an old 32" 75hz panel 1080p is max it can do without using the overdrive options to scale up :) besides my eyes arn't that great don't need to be making things even smaller lmao :D

Then make sure you enable Vsync in the in-game settings. And make sure the game is set to "Full screen" mode in settings. It's not "Real full screen" but at least it's enough to make vsync work. That's why your video card is screaming: It's rendering extra frames your monitor can't display. With vsync on you can keep your overclock options on too.

thanks for the tip will check settings and give it a test when i next playing :)
The 2600, mb and ram are a recent upgrade (2weeks ago) I just put it down to the gpu getting pushed way harder than my old fx8350@5.25ghz could ever push it lol :)

[tulle040657]

Thanks for the vsync tip, I went from 100% GPU to 50% and 5 C (80C to 75C) cooler on the GPU, It helps a lot in Florida in the summer, I keep the air conditioner at 80 F to save money