Might not seem much but 1.7.10 has that "awesome" performance and when you have a couple of machines on same space with particles and animations, it kinda affects the FPS a little.

Would be nice if we could disable this animations and effects.

I experience a lot of lag from auto hammers caused by the rendering of the hammer and the hammered block and from auto sieves caused by the rendering of the sieve and the skin. I wrote down the fps I was getting while looking at said blocks. I filled a 11x11 area with each of the following 7 blocks and teleported to a fixed position before looking at the fps.

Here are my results:

Test	Fps	Screenshot
Furnace	163
Auto Hammer	77
Auto Hammer with Block	23
Auto Compressed Hammer	86
Auto Compressed Hammer with Block	25
Auto Sieve	8
Auto Heavy Sieve	9

Based on those results I suggest adding an option to disable the rendering of the hammer, hammered block, sieve (also sieved block) and skin.

Furnaces are rendered statically into the chunk, whereas the hammer/skin parts of the machines are rendered every frame, so they're not comparable with each other. Also when doing benchmarks you should disable other mods that may affect the outcome (Botania Garden of Glass Sky, Minimap, ...).

By filling an 11x11 area with machines you end up with 121 of them. FPS issues for such large amounts is not surprising, try spawning that amount of mobs & items and observe your FPS while looking at them.

Disabling their rendering is not a solution, rather you should build in normal scales (or live with the consequences and deal with them in other ways, such as moving them to a chunkloaded area out of view).

Right my tests where with 11x11 not 10x10 blocks, I messed that up. Now corrected in my previous post.

I have about a third of that amount in my survival world. Its really hard and tedious to extend the setup (placing blocks, configuring pipes, etc.) with the low fps I'm getting there. Functionality wise those machines have a similar complexity to furnaces or sag mills but they cause disproportionate amounts of lag in comparison to machines of various other mods I know. I see that the inner life of those blocks looks really cool but there should be at least an option to turn it off considering its only and only for aesthetics.

EDIT: I understand the technical reasons for the amount of lag that is caused. I just argue that something that causes a big amount of lag should never be required in large quantities. For example for something like items it is okay to cause a lot of lag because there is no point in having large amounts of items laying around.

I just experienced similar large performance drops on MC 1.10.2 ( Ex Compressum 2.0.87 ).
I built some automated sieves and hammerers ( 20 each ) and noticed a severe performance drop.
A quick comparison showed that without the ~40 blocks placed i had ~180fps, with them i'm down to 48.

40 machines for something that is intended for automation should not affect performance that much.
Especially in some larger modpacks and/or worlds/builds i'd gladly accept the simpler appearance of a static block for a rendering performance increase that is probably a magnitude or more in this case. I know they are really fancy and nice to look at right now, but for using them in automated setups, that's the least thing i ( and that is of course my personal opinion) care about. Some config option for a simpler and less performance heavy presentation of those machines would be really nice.

I really like your mod and would really enjoy being able to use those machines in larger setups without such a performance impact.

Animations do not affect FPS any more than static TESR models, that's why they are TESRs. I'm not sure how Minecraft's particle settings work, but does it not affect the amount of particles spawned / shown by the sieves?

Also are you sure it's Ex Compressum things and not some other blocks (Ex Astris, Ex Nihilo, Storage Drawers) that are causing the FPS lag? Check your chunk updates on F3. The mods I mentioned love unnecessarily causing the whole chunk to rerender.

That is not what I said, I'm saying you should be able to use Minecraft's Particle Settings to tone them down. But your issue is most likely still caused by something else.

I dont have an issue. Its just something I remembered when I looked at my 10 sieves and particles flying everywhere and I thought that all these particles might not be so awesome on a crappy machine and they are just cosmetic particles.

Also, lowering particles in options is a little extreme since not all particles are cosmetic and preventing particles from other mods to avoid FPS issues caused by cosmetic particles does not seem a good design.

But again, this is just something I thought that could be an issue, so the suggestion... I am not saying it is an issue...

I always had the impression that particles would have a negative affect on FPS performance and 1.7.10 being shitty as it is with a couple blocks causing FPS drops from 150 to 60... that these particles would also affect performance. But, if you say they have no effect, I take your word.