How much over the recommended database size do you go?

I know it's down to personal preference but how much over do you go on the recommended database size, if at all?

My computer is limited to just a 20,000 player database and I'm tempted to push it higher but don't want to get into a game and find the computer can't cope.

i feel that the stars etc are rubbish indicators. I have a very high spec pc, which runs some high load stuff very easily, but according to FM i can only run 20,000 players? I run 25 leagues, custom DB that started with over 100,000 players and im now 35 seasons in and it hasnt even slowed down!

unfortunately, its trial and error.

My limit is 75,000 but always start with 80,000, could probably use another 10,000 or so because I've been as far as 2030 and haven't noticed it slow down at all.

My limit is 75,000 but I always start with 80,000. Could probably even select more because I've been to 2030 on 5 saves and haven't noticed the game slow down at all.

Apparently I can run about 125,000 players

I only ever really start games with about 70,000 players and then loads of countries on view only though; I try to avoid having too many players as I prefer my long term games.

The game setup complains if I go above something like 81k players, but I'm using about 100k with 13 or 14 leagues atm

Would love to run that many, having just 20,000 really restricts the game.

My computer gets 5 stars from FM and says the limit I should play at is 125,000. I recently started a new game (in which I manage Holland) with a database of 244,000 players (All players based in Africa, South America and Europe) and all European competitions as playable. Of course it is a bit slower with such a large amount of available players in the game, but I can say it doesn't give me any problems. I think you have to be aware that with every player you add, the game will be x miliseconds slower. But I don't think the recommended limit is the limit you should ultimately play at.

I think it all depends on how fast or slow you are happy for your game to run. I play a network game with just England Premier League and Championship loaded and 8,000 players, it WHIPS by, as you need on a network game.

In my single player career save, as I like depth I am running England, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium(view only), Poland(view only), Ukraine, Russia, Argentina(view only), Brazil(view only) with retained players from Europe and South America which totals about 225,000+ players and yeah it crawls and yeah it sometimes takes upwards of 15mins to process especially at the end of a season and upwards of 30mins at the end of transfer windows, but I don't mind, I like the sense of depth it gives me.

So really it is all to do with how speedy you are happy to play with?

I always load lots of player at the start of the game to get a lot of regens as well, but only few leagues (ca. 5-10). What I do is loading players from top division club of all continets plus the players based in the nation I am managing in via a custom data base. This will add up to about 100,000 - 130,000 players while 125,000 are recommended. It will take very long to set up the database but the game itself processes quite fast because of the few leagues loaded.

60K is plenty for me but my PC could handle a lot more.

FM recommends 125000 players on my "high end" computer, but I usually start with all leagues active and end up with over 200000 players. The game runs fine, even after a couple of season. It's a little bit slow sometimes, but I don't mind as I play the game in the background while I do other stuff on the computer.

I have always ran Large DB even though the game suggests small with only 3 leagues, I run 7 leagues aswell. And my laptop still runs the game at a good speed

lmao I cant run past 15k

I usually use around 80k, and change the competition setup depending on where I'm planning to manage.

On 27/07/2011 at 09:56, Viking said:

FM recommends 125000 players on my "high end" computer, but I usually start with all leagues active and end up with over 200000 players. The game runs fine, even after a couple of season. It's a little bit slow sometimes, but I don't mind as I play the game in the background while I do other stuff on the computer.

 Same here. The game thinks I shouldn't play more than 125.000, but I load up about 180.000 at the start of a new save. The game runs along fine for me.

Currently around 30,000. Have pushed it to 50,000 but the game becomes turgidly slow. (FM13 on a near-six year old laptop).

when you get a few seasons in an extra large DB can increase some process times, particularly as it updates stats for new season

I try to keep it around 35k max because any more makes the game world too slow for my liking.

Sure it would be nice to have 20+ nations loaded but once I get into a save I normally become attached to a few nations anyway.  

On 1 September 2016 at 06:31, thomit said:

 Same here. The game thinks I shouldn't play more than 125.000, but I load up about 180.000 at the start of a new save. The game runs along fine for me.

What CPU do you have?

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7 hours ago, Powermonger said:

What CPU do you have?

Intel Core i7 6700HQ

Having this very dilemma at the minute. Just what setup to use? I want to get a balanced game world for a long term game. I loaded all European nations with top 2 leagues, plus the home nations and Ireland with all leagues. View only for rest of the world. I loaded all continental and national reputation players from South America.

My PC recommends not going over 75,000 and won't let me go over 100,000. I think this setup on a small database gave me about 96,000 players. I holidayed one season before starting to look for a job. I encountered an out of memory crash when I viewed the first goal of the Champions League Final. Really annoying as I was hoping it would just slow down, and not crash. 

When i checked the add/remove league screen my player count had gone to 102,000. Maybe the regents had pushed me over my PC maximum limit which causes the crash????

On 27/07/2011 at 08:56, Viking said:

FM recommends 125000 players on my "high end" computer, but I usually start with all leagues active and end up with over 200000 players. The game runs fine, even after a couple of season. It's a little bit slow sometimes, but I don't mind as I play the game in the background while I do other stuff on the computer.

125,000 is the upper limit as higher than that will see any game slow down as you play more seasons, I always ignore it & can easily run over 200,000 without issue.

Anyone who is getting a lower number should avoid exceeding it as the limit will be based on hardware resources & OS type, going above the value will risk game shutdowns, mainly due to insufficient system memory.