The game runs fine for me except when i visit my own base. It's not a problem with small bases, but if the base gets bigger, the game runs worse.

Now my base (build of wood) got:
*(I'm playing the german version so some things might be named wrong)
- 3 storage containers
- 5 batterys
- 5 solar panels
- 1 Science Terminal
- 1 Weapon Terminal
- 1 Construction Terminal
- 1 Exocraft spawn thing
- 1 Teleporter
- 2 Food Stations
- 3 Mid-Refinery's
- 1 Large Refinery
- 5 plants (for harvesting)
- 2 landing plattforms

That's it.

My setup:
AMD Fx 8350
GeForce GTX 770
16 GB Ram
Windows 7 (64-Bit)
Playing at 1920x1080


What i did yet:
- Set everything to low (except the visible base parts, if i set them to the lowest, i sometimes can't use my refinery, also walls are missing completely)
- Tried a lower resolution (but then everything looks .... not that good ;-)
- Disabled VSync
- Tried Windowed borderless Mode (no changes)
- Set everything to use best performance in the nvidia control panel


As said, everything works fine and run's fine, except in my own base.
Someone got any idea what i can do to make the game run better in bases? Is there a limit on base part's that i should use as maximum in my base?

Sorry for my bad english, best greetings from Germany!

I'am running an FX-8320 locked at 4GHz with turbo disabled in the bios and power management frequency switching disabled in Windows, because allowing the CPU to down clock at all causes hitching/stuttering in every game I have played (since Dec 2013). So there's that you can look into. I now have a GTX 1660 6GB GDDR5 and the performance in my bases is WAAAY better than when I was using an R9 270 2GB GDDR5 video card. On the old card the same sort of thing happened to me, once the base grew passed a certain point the performance was terrible, even from 5Km away when I turned to face the base.

All things considered, the game plays very well now for me using essentially the same CPU that you're using, so perhaps it would help if you upgraded your GPU. Also, my system RAM is 24GB DDR3 1600MHz, which is fairly slow so it's not like one needs super fast system RAM for the game to be playable (I have 8GB of 2133MHz, but I wanted more RAM and the motherboard only supports/works with 1600MHz when using all for DIMMs).

Anyway, definitely look into locking the CPU clock speed (disable AMD Turbo and CPU "C6 State" in the bios. "core parking" and high performance power mode in Windows, with CPU power management min state set to 100% ), as that will make everything a little more snappy.

Thanks for the info!
Do you have a instruction on how to enable the high performance power mode in Windows?

1. Start Menu > Gear Icon

2.Windows Settings Window
System > Power & Sleep > Aditional Power Setitngs

3. Oper Options Window
- Select the High Performance option.

Way more burried in Win10 than in Win7/Vista, but once you find the window it's the same as it used to be. Crazy Windows 8/10 mish-mash of interfaces.

Ps. I meant to ask which motherboard you are using and the wattage / quality of your power supply. It's important for these FX CPUs, as they draw a lot of power. I have an Asus M5A97-R2.0, which doesn't have a very strong voltage regulator (VRM) setup, which is why I could never get a stable over-clock beyond 4.2GHz. I settled for 4.0GHz, as it is rock stable and 200MHz more wasn't noticable. When I first bought the board, cpu, and ram, I had an older 600W power supply and it simply could not run the cpu unless I disabled 4 of the 8 cores. I went with 650W (I think...) NZXT that has been great.

Anyway, it's possible that your motherboard's VRMs are overheating and dropping the voltage to the CPU, which then drops the clock speed (which can sometimes be as low as 1.8GHz) until they cool down a bit. This would have dramatic negative effect on the performance of the game, especially in places where there are a lot of objects to render.

You could download Open Hardware Monitor to graph your CPU clockspeeds in real time. If you have it set to stable speed when just running the desktop yet the speed drops down significantly when gaming, then that's most likely a limitation of the motherboard. If it were the powersupply the whole computer would ususally just shut off or reboot.

Given these 125W FX CPUs perform about the same as an AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (which is the cheapest 4 core 65W current AMD cpu), you're better off to buy one of those, 8GB of RAM, and a B450 chipset motherboard than you are to buy a better motherboard for your FX-8350 CPU. It would be more of a "side-grade" than an upgrade, but it would use a lot less electricity and it wouldn't throttle the CPU back even on a crummy motherboard. The Ryzen 5 2600 CPU (6 cores, 12 threads) is the best deal for an upgrade though, as it's way faster at everything than the FX-8350 and it's usually not a lot more expensive than the R3 1200.