RAM usage

[TimothyR]

Is Starmade more RAM-intensive or CPU-intensive? I have an dual core i7 5500-U and 8 GB RAM. I've had some lag while working on really, really, (and I mean REALLY) big ships. I've thought about adding another 8GB, as I have another RAM slot, but I'm wondering how much of the lag is because of RAM and how much is because of my mediocre CPU.

 

[Lidren]

I've noticed it benefits from both. I also notice a significant temperature spike on the CPU. I don't recall if SM multi threads. More ram is good, CPU or GPU is more likely a bottleneck at 8gb though.

 

[Valck]

I've noticed it benefits from both. I also notice a significant temperature spike on the CPU. I don't recall if SM multi threads. More ram is good, CPU or GPU is more likely a bottleneck at 8gb though.

I find limiting the frame rate helps with GPU temperature at least.

I have 16GB RAM and usually allocate 8 to the client and 4 to the dedicated server if I run both on the same machine (for single player, I just prefer to start the server separately); I think that's more than enough. I don't monitor RAM usage, but I haven't met either limit yet.

Also my entirely subjective feeling is there's less lag if I run a dedicated server on the same machine as opposed to have the launcher start it for me. Setting CPU affinity differently for both processes might help, too.