Surely the bulk of that is done on the Graphics card, not the system RAM?
Will there be bigger galaxy sizes?
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Surely the bulk of that is done on the Graphics card, not the system RAM?
There is no reason to do that, CK2 and Eu4 are already large address aware by default and there is no reason for Stellaris to not be.
No clue why this is not commonly known, but Henrik Fahraeus has clearly stated in an interwiev, that Stellaris is only currently capped to 1.000 Star systems. He did say along that the engine would support way more systems, and that they would limit this at the moment because of performance issues. Let me see if i can dig out that video for the OP and all readers here.
Edit: See here about 4 mins and 20 secs into this video here:
Edit: See here about 4 mins and 20 secs into this video here:
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The same sort of stance to the one CO took with Cities - 9 tiles are supported, but you can mod to 25 fairly safely and even go to 81 if you feel brazen enough. For what it's worth, I can run Cities quite merrily on the 25 tiles Mod with no issues - I suspect the same sort of thing will apply with Stellaris and within a few days of release, there will be a 5,000 stars mod!
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5k stars sounds like i could enjoy a game for ages
Or it could turn into an awful grind...
Bigger doesn't always mean better.
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Well with their own engine x86->x64 will be quite a bug-ridden hassle. Especially since I think it runs on C++.
At least x64 will last a while.
Moore's Law won't hold much longer. You need a nanofabricator lab to build a modern processor and the techniques have hit the problem known as quantum physics. You can't make transistors smaller anymore. You can make them much faster and that is current research, and parallelizing processes for GPUs. But the increases in computing will start to plateau pretty soon.
Unless of course we invent something better than transistor like liquid computers or quantum switches. Because science.
At least x64 will last a while.
Moore's Law won't hold much longer. You need a nanofabricator lab to build a modern processor and the techniques have hit the problem known as quantum physics. You can't make transistors smaller anymore. You can make them much faster and that is current research, and parallelizing processes for GPUs. But the increases in computing will start to plateau pretty soon.
Unless of course we invent something better than transistor like liquid computers or quantum switches. Because science.
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Probably
You never know, if some kind of parallel processing breakthrough opens up a whole new sub-field of research and advancement!?!?!?!!!!!!.... but yeah, not likely
5k stars sounds like i could enjoy a game for ages
I could get behind a massive 5k star Multiplayer game.
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There's a wife/mum joke in there somewhere, but I wouldn't be that crude
Chicken!
"That's what she said!"
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I think it's something akin to 60% GPU, 20-30% CPU and the rest is RAM, but I'm just really, really sceptical about the complexity in Stellaris with only 2GB of RAM.
Honestly, not really. Given how the devs are powering through the Blorg livestream, which consists of about 600 stars, 1000 stars probably won't take all that long to play either.
I want a game I can play for weeks on end, like EUIV and CK2.
Actually, can we slow down tech progression? Is that an option? It'd probably help out quite a bit in setting the "pace" for playthroughs.
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Actually it's 4GB, because Windows is 64-bit, hopefully. It will take it's 1GB from the remaining RAMIt's actually 3 GB RAM on Windows. (Technically it's up to 4 GB, but Windows reserves 1GB for itself...)
The point is - does Stellaris actually need more than 3 GB RAM? If that is sufficient, you have no real gain from switching to 64 bit.
For what do you need 64 GB RAM?
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I don't think the stream is a good example of this. They are purposely ignoring a lot of stuff that you'd normally want to pay attention to in order to get further into the game before release day. I'm certainly not expecting to get through the years nearly as fast as they have.
So far the answer is probably not, as it hasn't been seen yet, but it's the kind of thing that enough people have talked about, there will be mods for it quickly and maybe an addition in a patch down the line.
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Is it star ruler 2? you can make ships bigger than solar systems and galaxies in that game.
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I say bigger the better, would love to see a map bigger than 1k stars so that way hopefully everyone will get a nice chunk of space or not depending on how the AI/Players go about with building their Empires
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I think I'm almost always going to tend to 800-1000 stars in my playthroughs, but that is just my preference. If any mods unlock additional, and it isn't completely broken and interesting, I'll give slightly bigger galaxies a try.
In the blorg stream, 600 looks decent. If you consider that they have really only explored like maybe 20%-25% of it with their actual ships (the rest of the knowledge was gained via the intragalatic communication network)...you can get a sense of the scale.
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In the blorg stream, 600 looks decent. If you consider that they have really only explored like maybe 20%-25% of it with their actual ships (the rest of the knowledge was gained via the intragalatic communication network)...you can get a sense of the scale.
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