Beast system runs at 30 FPS

[SayMozelTovtoBacon]

Been having serious FPS issues in Stellaris since I got it, and couldn't figure out for the life of my what was wrong. I've got a Radeon 5700XT (Adrenaline 22.5.1) and a Ryzen 9 5950X. In year 2400 I get like 26 FPS. I've tried both DX9 and DX11, and both fullscreen and borderless windowed fullscreen. My friend with a Ryzen 7 3800X and RTX 3060 gets better FPS than me. Everywhere else everyone just seems to attribute it to "it's single core, play on smaller galaxy," but I've only been playing on small galaxies. Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it? Getting real sick of the game becoming nigh unplayable with the stutter and menus taking 10-20 seconds to respond.

 

[AndrewT]

FYI this game is NOT restricted to a single core.

FPS per se is not a good measure of game performance for a no n-action game like this, but if you get stuttering and slow menu responses that's a different matter of course.


Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, refresh rate 60.


Is that any better? If not,
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

 

[SayMozelTovtoBacon]

FYI this game is NOT restricted to a single core.

FPS per se is not a good measure of game performance for a no n-action game like this, but if you get stuttering and slow menu responses that's a different matter of course.


Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, refresh rate 60.


Is that any better? If not,
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

I attached all the files you suggested. I tried disabling fullscreen optimizations and did fullscreen with no vsync and still was stuck around 30 fps as soon as I unpaused the save.
I do see that one core gets pegged at 100% utilization when playing, but you're right that other cores do get a little bit of work (maybe two other cores sit at around 40%).

 

[AndrewT]

The refresh rate is set to 144 there, can you make it 60 please?

And you may as well update that AMD video driver, i think there's a new one out this month

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

 

[SayMozelTovtoBacon]

I wasn't using the optional AMD updates because they weren't sticking. After a restart Windows would use Microsoft Display Driver. The most recent optional update seems to be okay. Did not affect performance.
Also, capping the fps at 60 did not affect performance in game at all.

 

[AndrewT]

I don't know offhand what else could cause this to you , I am sorry.

In Windows run msconfig , boot, advanced. If Number of Processors is ticked there, untick it and reboot.

Assuming that doesn't help, what if you exit the Steam app entirely then run stellaris.exe directly from File Explorer? Is that any better?

And we had one case recently where running Task Manager helped performance, weirdly!