Game slowdown

[SamuraiJones]

This might be obvious, and apologies if I'm restating something discussed elsewhere... but I didn't see any discussion of this so:

The game starts to lag later in the game. Once you get most of the map explored and a bunch of machines built and start working on the surface, the fps drops terribly, especially at higher speeds. If you get real big, you start to see issues like the inventory screen on the right not updating, and dupes standing around for a bit before starting their next task.

On late-game files, i have to run on the lowest speeds for dupes to be able to find tasks in a reasonable time. It almost becomes an idle game. I tend to batch a bunch of instructions and build orders, then leave the game running overnight or while I'm in class because it takes so long to finish.

It's definitely better on the main branches than the test betas (after all the data-collection instrumentation is shut off I assume), but the slowdown still makes the game frustrating enough late game that I've never felt like I could build everything I wanted to in-base.

It seems like the devs are scrambling to get the last content in, so I'm not criticizing them, but as we move out of the content-generation to content-refining stages of development, I hope this is something that can be improved.

[babba]

True true.

Maybe you can find some helpful in these threads. Happy ONI

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/96484-100-kw-200-kw-500-kw-powerline/?tab=comments#comment-1097668

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/95053-how-well-does-oni-multithread/?do=findComment&comment=1079798

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/95016-frame-rate-optimization/?do=findComment&comment=1079420

ONI scales exactly to this list, so the game runs best on the top 5, 10 or 20 fastest single thread cpu`s. So one can make a tradeoff between price and ONI FPS.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

ONI Low Budget CPU Tip, good single core performers:

"Old" Intel i3 6100 @3.7 GHz or newer i3 7350k @4.2 GHz - High base clocks, decent caches, but both have no Turbo Boost.

ONI Enthusiast CPU Tip, higher budget: i7 6700k 7700k 8700k 8086k, i9 Series . I rather recommend the i7 Series for ONI, as the i9 series has too many cores and too much shared resources. Howerever - Great cache sizes on the i9 series.

Wish I could recommend AMD for ONI, but not with their current low single core performance. ONI also strongly benefits from large CPU level1/2/3 caches and of course single core turbo boost, if supported by the cpu and with proper cooling.

Intel is getting a bit in to panic mode in view of current and upcoming AMD stuff - Good !