Factorio big base lag First game had a weird lag, but was playable. Has anyone experienced seriously laggy or jittery game play in Big Sur? Trying to see if that's the issue or if I need to dig further; the game played just f… Jun 21, 2019 · Re: Insane lag - big maps in multiplayer Post by Zavian » Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:19 am Jihatden wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:16 pm My internet connection is not the best in the world but is pretty much ok, and the server is nearby here. It's not too bad because the need for balancers in a pre planned base is very low. Minimize your use of belts and switch as much as you can to bots and trains. The second game, my frames dropped from 60 to less than 10. If you're having consistent low UPS, look for big numbers in the first column. Aug 26, 2023 · I'm basing it on the steam FPS counted but my mate had CPU and gpu counters that are tied directly to his hardware and they apparently weren't under anywhere enough load to explain the issue. My friend and I are trying to play a multiplayer game but the lag is insane and unplayable for whoever is not the host. These are all of the details I can think would be useful. 11. Have built many a large base where we would lay rail out to the site for a new piece, put in the supply train drop point, setup some bots, drop a big nasty blueprint, and roll out. Bots can be very UPS heavy. Place some big electric poles in different places. He actually built a wall around the entire fucking base, and then put stripes of belt in front to confuse the spitters, for a perfect defense line that required no repairs. 3 After that update, my FPS dropped double, and i found that the game was unplayable anymore. But fast recovery, and stable framerate normally. Starter Base. Got worse and worse. 12, you should wait for that instead of wasting money. The base will automatically upgrade from yellow to red ammo. Setup a blueprint for an unloading station to use wherever you want to do a big build away from the core of your base. Combat and driving the car are the areas of the game where latency is most noticeable for clients. Big reactors mod causing lag upvotes My very first shared base on factorio prints, i don't know why but a like to build square bases. Yes, and just look at the biter defense. 5% packet loss causes huge lagg spikes as the client has to stop simulating the world, and then catch back up to the real moment once the packet finally arrives. So having balancers all over the place is going to hurt your UPS at some point. The game was only an hour old, with a very small base. (I also opened tabs in Chrome to make the game more easy to lag, and zoomed in to make sure trees were not the cause of lag. So it depends on the CPU of the dedicated server and how big you build your base. Tried a Ethernet cable and had him run a LAN game instead and there was no change at all, same lag spikes. In fact, you want to research as fast as possible to construction bots. with factorio you are not going to want wifi, especially for the host machine. Now the base is reasonably big, but it's not huge so obviously there is something causing the issue. And it also depends on the CPU of everyone playing the game. Hello fellow Factorio fans. Is there a way to disable it because it gets really annoying now when we have a big base (about to launch rockets to other planets). Jul 4, 2016 · It cannot have higher than 0 cpu impact. So if there's lag it comes from base game itself using its images or whatever. I researched some issues what this could be and ive found that it may be latency hiding. 1 Have played a lot, and got to a big base on before 19-11-2014 Game was running smoth at versione 0. The constant combinators will let you know what resource is needed in what order, and in what location. 10. Nov 5, 2024 · If I ever tried to play Gleba again bare without any cargo drops (I won't) it'd be just as bad as the first time. No, it's the game that tends to slow down, and it's because your base is too complex for at least one computer playing the game to keep up. This means that if you try to play factorio while downloading in the background, the packet loss applied on the network by the download can make the game unplayable. Few days ago a post about loaders was posted here on Reddit, talking about loaders. Putting back the pole can turn FPS/UPS back to normal. I am creating a mega base in peacefull mode with no bitters/pollution and i have mod for infinitive resources, running trains with LTN and have few QoL addons. 1 I updated on 19-11-2014 tot version x64_0. The base is fully surrounded by walls, turrets, and flamethrowers. And when I say worse, I mean the non-host player was experiencing massive lag spikes every 5 seconds, actions being retracked, items not being placed, etc. Get a wired connection. If you're having stutters and freezes, look for big numbers in the third column. May 3, 2017 · Therefore I can only assume there is a bug somewhere with multiplayer (shock horror!). Basically only at the resource input. . it is designed to get you to construction / logistic robots. I get really bad lag with my character only. Are you playing with mods? Yeah, a whole slew of em. The big UPS hog of belts are splitters. Nov 12, 2024 · Your router or ISP (or theirs) might also be flagging this as an attempted DDoS attack because Factorio traffic doesn't look much like normal MP game packets, and the protocall they use is also used by bad actors attempting to perform a DDoS attack (most likely for the same reason Factorio uses it, actually!) Starter Base. Does anyone know what might be causing it? The base is not that big, maybe 190 MW of power, and 1. (unless you're going for 10 rockets/second maybe). Apr 21, 2021 · Even 0. Everything else like the train and data runs like a charm. Factorio is very well optimized, so even if you had a mediocre CPU you'd need a gigantic base to start seeing UPS drops. This base is also fully protected by walls, gun turrets, and flame turrets. My previous game, with a big base was less than 20MB Jul 3, 2016 · 3) Move around in the map. Game runs fine in multiplayer if we are both home but when I go to his house to game I get all kinds of lag/"being dropped from server" message problems. May 21, 2019 · I've been playing factorio for a couple hundred hours now and as my base grew bigger I started experiencing some very annoying lag spikes that have been taking the fun out of the game These lags consist of severe FPS drops that happens every minute or so. Base building should be much better. Maybe the guy with lag had really old videocard *shrug* Sometimes it helps for general factorio lag when increasing the memory from video options. Any advice on improving fps on larger bases? I've got a 200+ hour game that is becoming a pain to play but I've still got so much I want to do with it. Lag when shooting and when driving are the main problems with multiplayer Factorio imo, and it's just something you need to expect with the way the netcode is designed and coded. Especially when building your base. At last look it was over 80MB. After a lag, post a screenshot of F4-Showtimeusage and F4-show-ENTITY-timeusage. Apr 30, 2015 · Big bases cause lag, it's a limitation of the Factorio client. 5k bots on the net. This base will build everything needed to build the science base. The best way I have found to play around this is to never use guns (that is, weapons you press the space bar to fire) but instead use capsules (grenades, poison caps This base produces 30/45 spm of red/green/black/blue. Minor FPS hiccups when we do something like lay down a MASSIVE blueprint, etc. This is the only time in factorio where I ever made one base and just copy and pasted the entire thing in a really ugly and clumsy way rather than designing exactly what I needed, because this planet is way too tedious. Both the host and clients need to run the game in sync. Feb 20, 2025 · While my computer could theoretically run four or five copies of Factorio at once, Factorio itself can't access enough of my PC processing power to run smoothly during the late game. Jan 14, 2015 · Started playing factorio sinds 13-11-2014 on: x64_0. There are optimizations coming in 0. 4) The game lags when the pole is in hand and ready to be placed. My save also seemed to explode in size. Accessing the "time usage" screen Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. Turning the tick rate down to 36 UPS lets me run fairly well, with only occasional bits of FPS stutter. The intent here is for the base to be fed by belts. I stopped after about 4 hours. ) Save you may be Jan 14, 2015 · Started playing factorio sinds 13-11-2014 on: x64_0. With an i7 4790k, I'm pretty sure you'll never see any drops, regardless of how big your base is. Quite possibly caused by mods but I can't test that as the game works fine until you start building big. I'm having serious lag issues (friend is using a desktop and I'm using a laptop). Both of us have very powerful computers and we can each play the game solo on our savegame with perfect 60 updates per second. This is a big base to initially build. good luck Apr 24, 2021 · My (again, subjective) suggestion for someone who wants to build real big: Ore deposits large enough that you can put a generic blueprint right into the middle of them and not worry about not mining the ore around the edges (I often hear the recommendation of mining directly into the trains, which would require very large ore patches indeed). I don't have any overhaul mods. oym qpgb dvsf xzbvr hdfjocv vrlrby nhf wssou jnqmv ohuxfsu lzzxt qcbv eyvpar egjmy dzgjwnx