For many games you choose the CPU power when ordering – i.e. how many processor cores your server may use, e.g. 2 cores, 4 cores, 5 cores or 7 cores.
- The smallest tier is preselected – it is the recommended power for the game and is enough for most servers.
- More cores help when a lot happens at once: many players, large bases, many mods or AI.
When are more cores worth it?
- Many players at the same time, large bases, many mods or AI (e.g. DayZ with many mods, Arma with AI missions).
- The server FPS or tick rate drops, or it lags although enough memory is free.
Whether the processor or the memory is the cause is shown by the history on the server page – learn more.
Booking more cores
You can change the number of cores at any time under Change resources – billed pro rata.
And what is “Performance”?
That is something else: Performance is a separate location with even faster cores (current AMD Ryzen (Zen 4) / Intel Core (13th Gen) CPUs up to 5.7 GHz and DDR5 memory) – for very large communities and huge modpacks. For the vast majority of servers, Standard is enough. More: What is the Performance option?