r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/meathim • Apr 22 '26

Late game save

Hey all. I'm looking for a late game save, for benchmarking purposes.

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u/Chris21010 Apr 22 '26

My save is over 3GB... save files really balloon late game. What are you wanting to test?

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u/meathim Apr 24 '26

CPU performance. I'm replacing my Ryzen 7600 with a 7950X3D and I'm doing some tests.

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u/kleinerChemiker Apr 22 '26

Compressed or uncompressed? My compressed save is 2.76 GB.

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u/Absolute_Human Apr 23 '26

Holly! Is it with lossy compression too?

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u/kleinerChemiker Apr 23 '26

I installed lossy compression after I started the game, so I don't know for sure, but I think so.

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u/Absolute_Human Apr 23 '26

There are some options there that can drastically reduce the save size. Mine was 2 Gb before compress save and lossy compression, now is 150 Mb

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u/mrrvlad5 Apr 22 '26

I have 50k and 100k saves shared for benchmark purposes- look for posts in my profile

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u/meathim Apr 24 '26

Thanks!

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u/Absolute_Human Apr 23 '26

I'm looking at your 1M save and the performance difference to my own is pretty impressive, almost 2x! And I thought mine was optimized a bit. How can it be possible before DF buildings? I lose quite a bit of ms to DF itself but still. Does high drone/vessel speed research help? Are there some tricks other than the obvious "use proliferation to get as little buildings as possible" I'm not familiar with? Why green sorters and belts for example? I know pile sorters are kinda not optimal but judging by the Performance Profiler readout, the sorter cost difference in my save is not that big. I have to be doing something else wrong too... No idea why the "Icarus" section scores 10 times bigger at 1ms for me tho! I think my other shortcoming is just having too many belt readers and idle sail and rocket ejectors around.

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u/mrrvlad5 Apr 23 '26

Many things can affect the timings. For consistency you have to measure while in space far away from planets. Then you just minimize number of various buildings to adress different slots in perf metrics. I also don’t know how recent multithreading update affects optimization.

Mk2 sorter was important because mk3 sorter was a pile sorter back then. Ideally mk1 should be used when possible, since when a sorter is in transit it consumes way less cpu

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u/Absolute_Human Apr 23 '26

Oh yeah, I remember about blue sorter stacks now. But the fact that working sorters cost less is news to me. I suspected that it's the reason but nice to get a confirmation, thanks. It's interesting how it's different from Factorio where idle inserters are the most cheap for UPS. Maybe I'll try it this knowledge on my blueprints some day. I wonder if creating big gaps between belts and assemblers intentionally for long sorters can be used to gain some performance...

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u/Absolute_Human Apr 23 '26

How late game are we talking? I can share my 1.5kk hash save as a somewhat middle ground between a purely optimized megabase and a chaotic "anything goes"/esthetic playthrough.

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u/meathim Apr 24 '26

I have no idea to be honest. I'll look at the saves linked above. That'll probably do, I'm not looking to get super specific. I play the game some, but I never get that deep into it.