5x Speed slow down.

[sturmchef]

x5 speed slows down considerably for some reason. This happens randomly, I usually leave my speed on x5.The only way to fix it would be to close the game and relaunch. Whatever happens during the game( a lot of things going on in the game etc) doesn't seem to affect it at all as I tested it once when I quit to menu and start a new game at 1444 the speed is still slow. I assume there's a memory leak?

I never had this problem in earlier versions, and I've been playing since launch...

 

[AndrewT]

There's no known memory leak in the game, no. But you can test that theory by running in Windowed mode with task manager running in the background, and switch out every now and then to see EU4's memory usage.

Please post a dxdiag.txt (you can delete everything after the end of the "Sound devices" section for brevity) and your Documents/EU4/settings.txt. Zip up your whole Documents/EU4/logs/ directory and attach or link that here too please.

 

[sturmchef]

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Time of this report: 1/25/2014, 19:52:43
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[bucaneer]

Does it only happen on speed 5 and not speed 4? Speed 5 is special because it's basically telling the game to run as fast as possible, using all computer resources it can use, whereas lower speeds have an internal timer keeping game speed and resource usage in check. On Linux, there are system services that detect processes that persistently use a lot of CPU time and mark them as lower priority so that the system overall remains responsive (the reasoning is that such runaway CPU usage would usually be a result of a bug and the user would want to switch to a task manager and kill the process). I don't know if something like this exists on Windows, but I think it would show up with these symptoms. You could try checking if the priority of game process is the same when you start it fresh and after it has slowed down using the task manager: http://superuser.com/questions/462417/how-to-set-process-priority-and-process-affinity-on-windows-8

 

[sturmchef]

I know that Speed 4 is preset while 5 is as fast as my CPU can go. Yes Speed 4 is slowed down a bit as well. I checked task manager and the priority was normal at launch and when it slowed it was still normal, I tried changing it to high but still no difference in slow down. It seems that if I pause the game and alt-tab out for a while and go back to playing, it seems the speed comes back up to normal.

 

[iLoveApples]

I know that Speed 4 is preset while 5 is as fast as my CPU can go. Yes Speed 4 is slowed down a bit as well. I checked task manager and the priority was normal at launch and when it slowed it was still normal, I tried changing it to high but still no difference in slow down. It seems that if I pause the game and alt-tab out for a while and go back to playing, it seems the speed comes back up to normal.

Alt-tabbing helped with running CK2 pre 2.0 as well. Had to use it a few times in EU4 as well, but never though much of it.

 

[AndrewT]

There's a newer video driver for you https://downloadcenter.intel.com/De...rsion=Windows 8, 64-bit*&DownloadType=Drivers

Is that the only video card in the machine? You don't have a dual GPU setup?

Did you try the Task Manager memory usage check I suggested?

 

[sturmchef]

I have a dedicated gpu, a gtx 660m and it's updated to latest driver. Yes I checked the memory usage via the task manager. I don't really know what I'm supposed to look for or how to judge if everything's working fine or not but it seems to me that there's nothing wrong with memory usage.

 

[AndrewT]

Well, you theorised your problem was a memory leak - I'm just trying to describe to you how to tell whether that is indeed so or not. Run up Task Manager, start EU4 in Windowed mode, note eu4.exe's memory usage in TM/Processes. Keep doing that every, say, half-hour as you play and see if its memory usage continues to climb until you have none free, or it plateaus at some point.

BTW you don't have the latest video driver - that one I linked above is newer than the one you're using.

 

[sturmchef]

I'm not using my integrated graphic, but my dedicated one and that's updated, so does it really matter if my integrated one is updated or not? After three hours of playing with non-stop 5x speed, the speed has begun to slow down. The game started with a memory usage of 1000mb and it's now at 1400mb. Can't really say for sure what's going on, but it's probably not a memory leak?

 

[AndrewT]

Well obviously if you have a second GPU that doesn't show up in dxdiag, that you play the game on, that is the one whose driver we need to update. But your EU4/system.log also only mentions the Intel card, so I'm pretty sure the game is running in that rather than the nVidia. You may need to use the nVidia utilities to force the game to use that card.