Why the game doesn’t use full CPU power?

[rs137]

Hello, I’ve downloaded megabase save and I’ve discovered that the game runs poorly. That would be expected if only the game would use all of the computing power of my notebook. How can I tell the game to use 100% of my CPU power instead of ~12%? Thank you!

My specs:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Chip: Apple M3 Max
Total Number of Cores: 16 (12 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 128 GB

Factorio version 2.0.30

[boskid]

Eh this topic again.

9 womans are not able to give birth to a child in 1 month, the same with processors, just because you have 16 cores does not mean it will run 16x faster if the task to be completed is sequential. Factorio has a lot of code that is sequential because we care about determinism for the purpose of multiplayer and about scripting so a lot of things happening in the game have to be sequential and cannot utilize all the cores available.

[rs137]

I get it now. And you are spreading those sequential tasks between cores that’s why I don’t see one maxed core.