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Hi everyone,
I'm having problems with the Performance of the game..
My Framerate dropped from 42 to about 33 FPS after my latest addition of a new Bot Red Circuit Factory Complex.
It has been dropping a lot after the addition of new factories.
That's not what buggels me.

The concern I have is, that my CPU is never relay exhausted.

Could you tell what the main Bottleneck of massive Bot Factories?
And why is none of my CPU cores usage at 100%?

I have about 70K Bots in my core Factories and about 70 Trains.
I'm afraid if I continue building special purpose factory complexes, I might make my own savegame unplayable.

mwwbf wrote:Could you tell what the main Bottleneck of massive Bot Factories?

Storage management, with bots you constantly put tiny amounts of items in storage and take them out again.

mwwbf wrote:And why is none of my CPU cores usage at 100%?

Because your OS performs load balancing.

Loewchen wrote:

mwwbf wrote:Could you tell what the main Bottleneck of massive Bot Factories?

Storage management, with bots you constantly put tiny amounts of items in storage and take them out again.

mwwbf wrote:And why is none of my CPU cores usage at 100%?

Because your OS performs load balancing.

Windows also struggels at 38fps.
So the problem would be memory access.

I'm running the game on a i7-6700K@4.4Ghz with 16GB DDR4 @ 3GHz.
So there is not realy mutch I can do about this!?

Factorio can only use 1 CPU at a time. With load balancing on 8 CPUs, that is an average of 12.5%.

Bots and trains are pretty efficient. It's just as likely that something else is slowing down your game. We would need your save and mod list to confirm.

DaveMcW wrote:Factorio can only use 1 CPU at a time. With load balancing on 8 CPUs, that is an average of 12.5%.

Bots and trains are pretty efficient. It's just as likely that something else is slowing down your game. We would need your save and mod list to confirm.

According to the Task Manager its even 15%.
Well I guess I have to use my bots in a better way.

Thanks for the answers.



modlist:

base
AllFluids
BigBags"
EndlessResourcesWithFullYield
Foreman
Nucular
Power Armor MK3
Power Armor MK4
RailTanker
rocketAutoStarter