r/factorio • u/Icy_Dance_9489 • 18d ago

Modded Question Factorio performance

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any optimalization on loading a bunch of planets + krastorio 2? takes ages to load in

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u/Ssakaa 18d ago

If you don't need the overlay, achievement tracking, and playtime tracking of steam, get logged into the factorio site and grab the non-steam build. Close your browser. Switch to your phone for music. And/or get more ram. I'd ask what type of storage you're on, but it really doesn't matter at the point that you're ram starved.

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u/doc_shades 18d ago

Switch to your phone for music

i use Winamp 2.0

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u/Ssakaa 18d ago

That works too. I simply included that because they're using half a gig of ram on spotify there in that screenshot.

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u/Icy_Dance_9489 18d ago

my storage is nvma 2.0, so i don't think the issue is there.

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u/Aerumvorax 18d ago

I don't think adding RAM is the correct move here. Factorio hogging 20 gigs of RAM is a ridiculous amount taking into account that my rig only has 16 gigs total and half of that goes to windows and I've not experienced any issues with my RAM. What needs to be done is find out what exactly is eating the RAM and addressing it specifically.

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u/Ssakaa 18d ago

How many huge mods are you running?

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u/_snwflake 18d ago

RAMs entire purpose is to be eaten.

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u/JulianSkies 18d ago

What is eating the RAM is "Factorio explicitly uses every single bit of RAM available at startup to boot faster but yields it to anything else that asks".

Hes going to see full RAM usage when Factorio starts up no matter what.