Game Performance on Bigger Maps

[Baer]

Heya! Just an random Question about the game. I like to play on big maps, but it seems my i5 7500 doesnt like that. Or my 8gb of RAM? What is the bigger problem here? On an normal Mapsize, i get 50-70% Cpu usage and RAM is always full. 

[OxCD]

Default map size is already to big for game performance. And the machine will not change anything.

If you care about FPS, try playing on smaller map. I only play on smaller map now, and I'm thinking going even smaller. But remember, a "full" tiny map is already too much for the very late game. My 16g of RAM doesn't change anything.

If you really want bigger map, I hope you like slides. Or you don't go over cycle 100, that's another solution.

[Gurgel]

The game seems only to use 3...3.5 cores or so (I have 8 plus hyper-threading). 8GB of memory is likely too little, my current map needs around 11GB for ONI. 

[SharraShimada]

Your RAM is your main problem. i play on a i5 4460 at 3200MHz all core, and it runs just fine. But RAM usage of 12 GB is common. With 8GB your system will always swap with the hard drives page file, which causes massive performance issues. Get yourself 16GB RAM and you should see a major performance gain mid and late game. 

[suxkar]

I recently got 16Gb from 12, didn't see much difference..

[Baer]

2 hours ago, suxkar said:

I recently got 16Gb from 12, didn't see much difference..

Did you just put a random stick in it, or there are all the same? Maybe you killed the dual channel mode. 

[suxkar]

No I was careful, exactly the same ram. From what I see and have seen written by others, the RAM usage simply increases over the duration of a session. Adding more just delays the inevitable moment when everything starts to slow down. It seems to have something to deal with garbage collection or memory leaks, or both. There are literally hundreds of threads about it.