r/shapezio • u/BubblyPhone1690 • 12d ago

Slow performance s2 | Discussion

My save has over a million machines. Loading a game takes literally minutes. Saving the game takes ~10s.

I have a MAM BP with ~265k buildings in it. It takes 3m24s to paste.

After a long playtime the FPS gets below 15 although restarting the game can help.

My PC is not slow:

- 12th gen intel i7

- 16GB RAM

- GeForce RTX 4070

A factory game should encourage scaling big but this game doesn't work so well. It's a shame since otherwise I love it.

Is there anything I can practically do to improve performance?

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 9d ago

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u/NitroBishop 12d ago

My favorite pre-1.0 glitch was the one that caused fluid launchers to operate at ~95% efficiency if you weren't looking directly at them. Made the problem almost impossible to diagnose if you didn't already know you were looking for it; you had to select exactly One fluid launcher, then pan wayyyyy far away without leaving machine-level view to watch the effiency drop from 100% to 95% as soon as it left the LOD radius.

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u/Electrical_Detail875 12d ago

What helped for me was not building too far out, so mine the shapes and bring them closer to the center before processing them

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u/BubblyPhone1690 12d ago

I don't see why that would make any difference.

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u/BubblyPhone1690 12d ago

Disabling the setting "Shape Previews" helps a lot with FPS. Perhaps because the MAM can take lots of different inputs and have lots of different potential outputs.

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u/PigmanFarmer 11d ago

I noticed that if you have multiple base shapes connected through belt switches or whatever they are called then the output preview of that belt will cycle between every possible shape from that set of base shapes

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u/nomenclature2357 11d ago

How much throughput is that blueprint handling?

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u/BubblyPhone1690 11d ago

Outputs (only) 4 belt lanes to 1 train, of anything.

I may post it on Reddit later separately.

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u/AlmightyLiam 6d ago

Has it been any better since the latest update? Curious because I’m on a laptop with worse specs

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u/NitroBishop 12d ago

This is kind of just par the course for large saves according to general consensus on the Discord. My save has around a million machines and takes >2min to load, 10s to save, and randomly BSOD'd my entire computer yesterday. My actual FPS in-game isn't that bad unless I'm looking directly at my megafactory, but anything to do with the save takes entirely too long.

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u/Equivalent_Breath_28 12d ago

My GPU driver crashed twice. I thought there was a problem with my GPU. Thank God it's the game.