CycleTrim (Early Development)
Streamline Your Colony with CycleTrim for Oxygen Not Included
Are you experiencing performance slowdowns in your sprawling Oxygen Not Included colonies? As your bases grow and your duplicant workforce expands, the demands on your system can increase significantly. CycleTrim is a lightweight performance optimization mod designed to tackle these CPU-intensive bottlenecks, helping you maintain a smoother and more stable gameplay experience.
Addressing CPU Pressure
The primary goal of CycleTrim is to reduce redundant calculations within the game’s high-frequency simulation paths. By intelligently trimming duplicated work, the mod aims to alleviate CPU pressure without introducing disruptive changes to core gameplay mechanics. This focus ensures that while your colony runs more efficiently, the fundamental behavior you expect from Oxygen Not Included remains intact.
Key Optimizations at Play
CycleTrim implements several clever optimizations to achieve its performance goals:
- Smart Reservoirs: This feature reduces unnecessary automation signal emissions, preventing a flood of redundant data processing.
- Optimized Pickup Candidate Lookup: The mod caches computations for determining pickup candidates and their rankings, speeding up the decision-making process for your duplicants.
- Duplicant Activity Throttling: Busy duplicants will have their heavy refresh tasks throttled, while idle duplicants remain fully responsive. This prevents constant, intensive calculations from overwhelming the CPU.
- Stationary Critter Management: For critters that remain in one place, the mod reduces repetitive “Navigator” probe work, easing pressure on navigation hotspots.
Compatibility and Stability
Designed with long-term stability in mind, CycleTrim strives to preserve the vanilla behavior of critical gameplay systems. It supports both the base game and its DLC content, ensuring a seamless integration into your existing colony setups.
While still in its early stages of development, CycleTrim has already demonstrated measurable performance gains across various scenarios. By intelligently optimizing these computational hotspots, the mod offers a way to keep your Oxygen Not Included colonies running smoothly, even as they reach ambitious scales.