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Optimization?

Top games in low memory

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Want to share your map? Maybe your save is just too big, my game is running at ~3GB for py. Although at the loading screen it goes up to 6.

Almost 12GB?? I don't think that's solvable outside of changing the code of the game (and maybe even then not).

So I wouldn't even blame graphics because that should use the GPU memory. Yeah, just out of curiosity, how big is your base? I have around 1000 transport belts and it uses 2GB. Just sharing. Looks normal to me for my size.

Bigger map means more memory usage.
Its not really avoidable in a game, which allows almost endless growth and expansion

Largest base that is actively played I have seen on the forum is the azembog with 100 gig ram.

aka13 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:00 pm Largest base that is actively played I have seen on the forum is the azembog with 100 gig ram.

Oh my... I kinda want to see that one

viewtopic.php?p=581414
Your wish is my command

That's quite a save
Probably mostly empty chunks I bet, I can't load it after all. Reminds me, could be worth for OP to try and trim the map.

AFAIK these days OSes consider unused RAM to be wasted RAM :
https://superuser.com/questions/437918/ ... superfetch
https://superuser.com/questions/1338367 ... 21#1338621
The same might apply to Factorio.
Are you actually encountering any performance issues ?
(And if so, sharing your savegame might help.)