Best mods for this game?

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whats are the best mods for the game?

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Yep, I played through vanilla a few times and likely will again at 1.0, now I am playing a whole different game. Grandeur does not come easy even with plenty of help.

First I wanted to write that in your next life you'll become an architect.

Then I realised that you are already.

In this game we all get to be if thats how we choose to play the game.

People that think its somehow cheating myself to use mods dont realize the game I am playing isnt the same as theirs.

Now I will have Crazy Coupons in the Awesome Sink so if thats their measuring stick then I win, lol.

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Surprised no one listed Blueprint Designer Plus, My current build is all about this Mod and hoping they get it updated to 8 soon.

The problem:

Blueprint Designer Plus in combination with the current problematic savegame technique make the savegame size explode very soon and with that the very unpleasant consequences start

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Surprised no one listed Blueprint Designer Plus, My current build is all about this Mod and hoping they get it updated to 8 soon.

The problem:

Blueprint Designer Plus in combination with the current problematic savegame technique make the savegame size explode very soon and with that the very unpleasant consequences start :bfexclamation:

I will deal with it for a short time. I mostly want to print out the structure of the Factory, get the legs, the three floors and the Aqueducts slapped in. Later will likely build some production line prints.

Thing is wont be using it all the time, just to parcel out big jobs s savegame will only suffer on those sessions when using it. I did not notice if there was any effect or not, will have to count it out next time I am playing. I had been at 6 seconds on save and TBH that doesnt bother me at all.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Your autosaves already cause a 6 second freeze again? How big is your current savegame?

My freeztime is still half a second (touch wood!). I believe because I build much less than you with your super-duper printer

... or is it the mod machinery you use

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Ha, havent even built anything with the big printer. Just made one print for the Drone Ports this evening. Have to make prints for legs, corners and interior floors then I will start putting it all together.

Looks like my saves are about 2.5MB currently. I have a crappy computer that is going on 12 years old. Hoping Santa noticed how good I have been. I see a pretty nice rig for around a grand that is only 3 or 4 years back that I could toss a really nice video card in.

One of the big problems with current machine is it is limited to 16GB Memory. I am lucky to hold 30 fps in the game and often latency will spike and stall down to 6 fps which becomes unplayable. In the past I had to save and restart then I figured out if I just plaster my face onto a beam or something it will recover.

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Looks like my saves are about 2.5MB currently. I have a crappy computer that is going on 12 years old.

2.5 MB should not be a problem if you have a NVMe SSD (they look a bit like a memory stick). Your 12 year old computer will not have that. So my question is: Do you have a mechanical HDD or a SSD (SATA)?

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One of the big problems with current machine is it is limited to 16GB Memory.

I have also only 16 GB (and even single channel instead of dual channel - want to say: only one memory stick instead of two) but since I close Firefox in the background the fps drops and mini-freezes disappeared. 16 GB should be fine. But surely with a newer Computer the RAM will be faster. Today I forgot to close Firefox [because I am playing since 23 hours Satisfactory with breaks for the discussion board and looking through your printscreens - where you never answer ) and the fps-drops had a comeback.

Also I decreased some video settings like clouds and foliage and shadows, that probably helped too.

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I am lucky to hold 30 fps in the game and often latency will spike and stall down to 6 fps which becomes unplayable.

Do you play on a desktop computer or on a notebook?
What is your graphics card?

It's not nice to play with 30 fps, especially when you are older. Anything lower than 20 fps is a pain in the ...

A grand architect and artist like you deserves better.

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Game is on a Samsung SSD, I do have spinning discs int he PC also, it is a desktop (HP Envy).

Where have I not answered? I may have missed a ?

GTX 1650 Super on the card.

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Game is on a Samsung SSD, I do have spinning discs int he PC also, it is a desktop (HP Envy).

Where have I not answered? I may have missed a ?

GTX 1650 Super on the card.

If you have a Samsung SSD then I don't understand why 2.5 MB are freezing for 6 seconds.
Or maybe the difference between SATA SSD and U2 NVMe SSD is really that huge (normally you don't notice that so much, but in case of a complete freeze every fraction of a second is a long time.

And at least your graphics card is not 12 years old. That is certainly an advantage.

My questions and comments are in the comment section of many of your printscreens you made of Satisfactory and uploaded on your Steam profile. You would be surprised. You got many thumbs up and even some rewards for artistic merits. Did you not get many notifications?

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Lol, I have never looked there.

As far as the 6 second lag on saves, that starts very early on in a save file and I get the slowdown to 6fps on a bare map before anything is even built or cut down just by moving around.

There is something that pushes GPU utilization beyond the bounds of my cards ability then Render Latency goes to over 200ms. In the past I had saved and loaded to fix it but I have figured out putting my face in a corner will stabilize then I can go about my business until the next time it happens.

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Lol, I have never looked there.

As far as the 6 second lag on saves, that starts very early on in a save file and I get the slowdown to 6fps on a bare map before anything is even built or cut down just by moving around.

There is something that pushes GPU utilization beyond the bounds of my cards ability then Render Latency goes to over 200ms. In the past I had saved and loaded to fix it but I have figured out putting my face in a corner will stabilize then I can go about my business until the next time it happens.

Second time you mention your face, first you wrote about hitting concrete or something and now of putting it in a corner ... so this problem must be really bad.

What I do to stress my graphics card and CPU less is V-Sync. There is no need to go above 60 fps if your monitor can show it. This way the GPU stays cool and I belive but not 100% sure that it also lowers the CPU workload. So in your case of an older PC which makes you hitting concrete with your face it's surely a good idea to enable V-Sync. There is even a slider to set a fps limit but I think V-Sync is the smoothest method.

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When the GPU overloads getting to a point where there is nothing but a single color lets it clear up.

I have no clue why it does it but moving is always a key factor. GPU shoots to 99% Latency goes to quarter of a second and FPS goes to 6. I always called it drunken mouse because you move you mouse then the screen reacts.

Will suddenly hit every 20 minutes or so, the rest of the gameplay is fine at around 30 FPS.

I will refrain from saying too much as I have a hint from munin that he dont like me much.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Drunken mouse

The last few years I was on a 11 year old laptop, I was not much more which I could have been playing than my then beloved Unreal Tournament 3. So I know about restrictions. But even with my notebook with a dedicated graphics card I came to 40 or 50 fps.

I really could not play with 30 fps and these 6 fps drops. I guess I would get to the point where I would ring with my self to not throw the screen out of the window - or through the window.

My plan was to save money to buy this year a high end PC but then I got really lucky last November. In a store they had "christmas sales" or something and I got my Lenovo Legion for about 800.-, really cheap. Sure, it's only a i5-11400F and a GTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM, but for playing at 1920 x 1200 it is enough and its a BIG STEP from the old notebook. I can update the RAM, I can buy a bigger SSD with 4 or 8 GB , and eventually I will go for 4K gaming with an OLED Monitor and buy a new rig, migrate the new SSD. But at moment it is enough for me. I would like to go on a long travel again like half or one year, so buying beforehand a new PC would be a waste of money.

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Nice, I am probably going to shelve Satisfactory until I do upgrade. I just found out that the Big Blueprints I was waiting for wont work for me. Guessing its likely to do with this computer as I dont see any mention of this by others.

I had been working on my first print and thought I would try it out and it left out most of what I had built, so much for The Grand Factory.

What I built on the left on the Blueprint Pad, what it printed when building the print on the right.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040946756

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Nice, I am probably going to shelve Satisfactory until I do upgrade. I just found out that the Big Blueprints I was waiting for wont work for me. Guessing its likely to do with this computer as I dont see any mention of this by others.

I had been working on my first print and thought I would try it out and it left out most of what I had built, so much for The Grand Factory.

What I built on the left on the Blueprint Pad, what it printed when building the print on the right.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040946756

Darn, that's a bummer that this Big Blueprint is not working for you. But you remind me that I must definitely learn how to use this Blueprint in the game. But I also noticed that as long things are changing constantly you can really not have "one" best design for something. For instance if you have only MK1 Belt there is no other way than to build one straight line from miner to smelter to constructor. only when you get better belts you can connnect machines more smartly. and then you get reffineries and you first have to learn them and why learn how trucks are managed if you know that you soon get drones, etc. In a way I think the best time to design the best blueprints is the time when you are done with leveling up. Anytime before a blueprint is outdated with the next belt or pipe generation or better splitter or whatever comes next.

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I just know that in a second playthrough I would do things differently. But you have to go through the whole process first and make your mistakes. The bigger the mistakes the more you learn!