Recommended System Requirements for mega bases?

[marcoevich]

Hi All,

I love Factorio and play every day. I have a 300+ hour, 1 rkt/minute megabase, which takes 5.7 GW of Power and has 155 trains running.

I have the following hardware:

- CPU: Intel Core i5 4590 @ 3.3 Ghz.
- GPU: GTX 970

The base runs about 17 FPS/UPS constantly, and sometimes slows down to about 16 FPS/UPS. It is not unplayable, yet walking and driving from one part of the base to another takes a long time, because the game speed has slowed down drastically.

I would like to continue expanding this base but I fear more FPS/UPS drops. Are there any recommended system requirements for Factorio Mega Bases? Any CPU which might give a good boost in performance?

I've tried turning off pollution, nuclear power and killing all enemies, this doesn't give any boost in performance.

Thanks!

[Jap2.0]

I don't know what system you would need to get better preformance, but I have heard that memory (RAM) latency and single-core preformance are often the limiting factor. Unfortunately, I don't know much more than that.

[Loewchen]

See the performance issue paragraph here: 4400, beyond that there are no further recommendations gameplay wise. For the CPU, higher clock speed and a bigger cache would have the biggest impact on performance I would assume.

[marcoevich]

Thx Guys, I will have a look at those.

Looking forward to belt optimized branch for 0.16. I hope that will give my base the performance boost it needs now

[Zeblote]

For the best performance with large bases, you want a 7700k at 5GHz and high frequency/low latency memory.

[orzelek]

For the best performance with large bases, you want a 7700k at 5GHz and high frequency/low latency memory.

There is a 8700k now that can go slightly higher on clocks but gaming benchmarks are showing it to be pretty much the same. Would be nice to check how it would behave with Factorio.

[Zavian]

To be honest a ups friendly factory design is probably more important than what processor you are running. I suggest having a look at Xterminators sending supporters to space base. It does about 4k science per minute (including 4 rockets per minute) at decent ups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcoYkR_qAQ

[marcoevich]

To be honest a ups friendly factory design is probably more important than what processor you are running. I suggest having a look at Xterminators sending supporters to space base. It does about 4k science per minute (including 4 rockets per minute) at decent ups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcoYkR_qAQ

Damn that is quite a base design.. Thanks for the video

For the best performance with large bases, you want a 7700k at 5GHz and high frequency/low latency memory.

There is a 8700k now that can go slightly higher on clocks but gaming benchmarks are showing it to be pretty much the same. Would be nice to check how it would behave with Factorio.

I'll look into those CPU's. 7700K looks like good bang for buck right now. Thanks guys