So fish=ups killer and grass=memory eater

bp3959 · Post by **bp3959** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:55 am

Deleting fish from my map took me from 157,000 active entities down to 41,000 and dropped cpu usage by 20%. Deleting grass/decorations dropped my map size from 122MB to 80MB and RAM usage went from almost 8GB down to 5.1GB.

Any plans to optimize these things?

orzelek · Post by **orzelek** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:42 am

Which game version you are using?
Decorations were modified in version 0.15 to take much less memory.

Fish are a new one I think - there were seriously that many of them?

Post by **Koub** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:53 am

If I may suggest, you should post your save here :
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17501

Post by **Rseding91** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:06 am

bp3959 wrote:Deleting fish from my map took me from 157,000 active entities down to 41,000 and dropped cpu usage by 20%.

The "active entities" counter is the total number of entities in the world that *can* be active - not the total actually active.

As for the "dropped cpu usage by 20%" - I don't believe you. Fish take zero CPU time unless a player is standing next to them and unless you're on a MP game with 50 players standing next to excessive amounts of fish there's no way they would take up 20% of the CPU time.

bp3959 wrote:Any plans to optimize these things?

They are optimized: fish don't go active unless a player stands next to them and decoratives are extremely compact for what they provide.

They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work

If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Rakshasa · Post by **Rakshasa** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:33 pm

Rseding91 wrote:They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Oh ffs you bastard, why did you link that?

orzelek · Post by **orzelek** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:20 pm

Rakshasa wrote:
Rseding91 wrote:They will of course always take > 0 space - that's how games work If you want anything then it takes some resources. If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/
Oh ffs you bastard, why did you link that?

Took those out of my fingers...
You evil Rseding with tempting links

featherwinglove · Post by **featherwinglove** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:55 am

Rseding91 wrote:If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Except that there are bells and whistles to strip even from that!

TRUEpicness · Post by **TRUEpicness** » Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:47 pm

i actually have a kongregate account and played that but after a while it gets very boring

neocortex92 · Post by **neocortex92** » Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:19 pm

Rseding91 wrote:If we strip out all of the bells and whisles from the game you end up with http://factoryidle.com/

Haha, laughed more than I should have.

featherwinglove · Post by **featherwinglove** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:47 am

TRUEpicness wrote:i actually have a kongregate account and played that but after a while it gets very boring

I have the perfect solution: drama about it getting boring after a while

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