Performance issues

[stuck ivy]

Not sure if I'm playing the game incorrectly, but I'm nearing 1 million machines and still haven't fully beaten the first classic scenario (nearly on the last tier!). Game takes a long time to save and load, and I have a lot of lag when placing triple stacked machine platforms. Is this likely an issue with how I'm approaching the game (now above operator level 250) or would under-the-hood tweaks/optimizations be a potential improvement moving forward?

[pine stone]

Yes, I got the same issue. I am playing manufacture mode and am producing 1 fully upgraded space belt of emeralds (layers 1 - 3), and the game already freezes for multiple seconds when saving or loading. When I have large selections active, or worse, move or paste them, FPS drop really low. My pc should be more than capable of handling it. It's already bordering on unplayable, and I am hardly in the mid-game!

[light silo]

I have the same problem, in my case its gotten to the point that just cross my arms for like half a minute every time it saves, also moving around and placing large things can freeze the game for like 2 seconds or more 😭

[distant schooner]

I just came here to see if anyone else had similar problems; I would have the game hang on auto save, and at this very moment it's refusing to load my almost completed Factory map. I tried messing around with settings but it doesn't really help.

[twin temple]

How big is your save? Save games are zipped, but man are they HUGE. Making a solid-state drive almost a necessity.

[distant schooner]

I've got one.

An SSD, I mean

I think I have an idea of what's causing it - I think it's because of the trading posts they added for 1.00. I did have some hanging when saving during EA, but not like this and not so severe.

Since they weren't tested in EA, I would bet they aren't as optimized for performance.

Also, it took about 5-10 minutes for my game to load today. I finished factory mode and then saved it and quit out once I got my badge. I'm hiding safely in early hex mode.

[rose light]

save files aren't at all big

I have like 250k machines in a manufacture game and the save file is only a few 100MB

[pale steppe]

just chiming in that it seems like performance is definitely bumpier here than it was in EA, especially the saves, i've got less than 250,000 machines in classic and it's already starting to hang up on saving. This is on a WD Black SSD, a 4060ti, a Ryzen 9 7900X and 64gigs of RAM

[light silo]

imagine how 1.6 million feels like

[pale steppe]

i played Manufacture through Diamond, when it'd autosave it started pasting in like 30 of whatever i had selected as soon as it unfroze

the furthest i got was 1.1 million

[light silo]

I hate that