How to Speed up Victoia 2

Descri · Jan 21, 2011

I recently started playing V2 again (now with all those new versions of PDM how could I even resist

) after playing a lot of DW. Now, anyone who has played DW will tell that when zoomed out the speed is truly excellent. Now, when I came back to V2, with all the different tips and tricks for speeding up the game (Low res textures, low settings, changing update value in settings) the game is quite slow. It takes a while for a month to end.

I wanted to ask: Are there any new tricks on speeding up Victoria? Is it normal for the game to be slow? (I remember the speed was fine for me, but that was before DW, so in comparison I think it looks different).

Thanks!

Naselus · Jan 21, 2011

PDM is actually somewhat more processor-and-memory intensive that baseline V2, as assimilation has been nerfed and there's more goods, and the economy runs properly (so a hell of a lot less sea-dumping). I have no idea how you might speed it up

Descri · Jan 21, 2011

But how much time does it ideally take for a month to pass? (So I could see If I am doing well or not)

TheArchMede · Jan 21, 2011

I think I had some sort of resource leak issue. I found late game ran much faster after saving, quitting and starting up again. So if you have been playing a while and it seems to be going treacly, saving quitting and reloading is something to try.

Just sitting there and watching a month pass, maybe 30-40s down to 10-15s, but there were horrendous delays on actually trying to select and order units around and switch around the province displays and so on, which pretty much vanished on reload.

Descri · Jan 21, 2011

Thanks. I'll try it soon.

Ricox · Jan 21, 2011

Could you post how to use few of those fixes you mentioned? I want to see if it would work for me since 10 FPS is pain in the butt.

FelixMajor · Jan 21, 2011

The Arch Mede said:
I think I had some sort of resource leak issue. I found late game ran much faster after saving, quitting and starting up again. So if you have been playing a while and it seems to be going treacly, saving quitting and reloading is something to try.

Just sitting there and watching a month pass, maybe 30-40s down to 10-15s, but there were horrendous delays on actually trying to select and order units around and switch around the province displays and so on, which pretty much vanished on reload.

My experience has been similar to yours. I spent a weekend ill playing the game when I wasn't eating, sleeping, or at the privy and found that after several hours I had to quit/reload to experience typical game speeds.

Rizzmond · Jan 22, 2011

victoria 2 is extremely HDD intensive. I found that I got a big boost to game speed by defragging. Also, any mod that decreases the army/navy spam late-game will vastly speed up the late-game. In my last hands-off test game with AoC the game ran from 1836 to 1936 in 6 hours and 30 minutes at full speed.

Naselus · Jan 22, 2011

Agreed with Rizz on this - there also some anecdotal evidence that defragging can reduce the number of OOS errors in multiplay.

keynes2.0 · Jan 22, 2011

Rizzmond said:
victoria 2 is extremely HDD intensive. I found that I got a big boost to game speed by defragging. Also, any mod that decreases the army/navy spam late-game will vastly speed up the late-game. In my last hands-off test game with AoC the game ran from 1836 to 1936 in 6 hours and 30 minutes at full speed.

I think it would take me at least two or three times as long as that.

djconklin · Jun 23, 2012

I found that if I zoom out from the map and lose all information, then it raps off the turns quite quickly (otherwise, its like watching paint dry).

calvinhobbeslik · Jun 23, 2012

By mid game in vanilla, it takes 5 seconds for a day to pass without pausing...and every youtube video I see has really fast top speeds of around 5 days per second...am I the only one whose game is this slow? Does it have to do with the fact that I like playing countries that get really large(my last 5 major games were British World Conquest, Chinese Asian conquest, Ottoman European Conquest/Africa colonisation, Austria->Germany European conquest(including all of European Russia), and Scandinavia colonising almost all of Africa)?

Hibernian · Jun 23, 2012

If the hard drive is what limits the speed of the game, then maybe having a Solid State HD would improve it significantly... Anyone have experience with that?

yodaime · Jun 23, 2012

Hibernian said:
If the hard drive is what limits the speed of the game, then maybe having a Solid State HD would improve it significantly... Anyone have experience with that?

Got Intel 330 SSD, to be honest it works quite decent, especially in later years but it's not as big difference as you'd expect. But that may be because I still have sata2 motherboard since gonna update mobo/cpu/ram next month (so I can get full 500mb/s / 450mb/s speed from this SSD)

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