Game Slow For Anyone Else?

[pleinair00]

this is strange. I took the biggest performance hit with Art of War with the new map as you'd expect, which has forced me to play on speed 3 maximum. El dorado hasn't phased my PC at all though, no additional slowdown and no noticable slowdown after long play sessions. It's pretty much exactly the same as AoW, like ED never happened. Weird =P

i'm using a amd phenom II x4 840 3.2ghz processor with only 4 gig ram , which I'm sure is worse than some peoples rigs in this thread..so I don't know whats up there

 

[henrikhka]

Game has become horribly slow for me as well. Always used to be slower in 18th century forward, but I've had to completely dump an achievement run I was making, as the save became completely unplayable after the latest patch. Now I barely make it into late 1500s before things start to get tedious due to the slowpassing days.

 

[ForzaA]

We haven't particularly noticed any slowdowns during testing, but we're investigating.

For those of you suffering the slowdowns;
Do the slowdowns persist after a save/quit/restart ?
Are the slowdowns "permanent" after a certain time, or does it get better again later?
Are you noticing the issue playing Ironman, non-Ironman, both?
Gameplay wise, is there anything you noticed? e.g. big wars, playing in Europe, not in Europe?

 

[unmerged(805015)]

game is slower, that's all. Everyone is agreeing here to say the game is slower now.

 

[Sinhei]

It's slower in general and get worse later in the game

 

[kente]

We haven't particularly noticed any slowdowns during testing, but we're investigating.

For those of you suffering the slowdowns;
1) Do the slowdowns persist after a save/quit/restart ?
2) Are the slowdowns "permanent" after a certain time, or does it get better again later?
3) Are you noticing the issue playing Ironman, non-Ironman, both?
4) Gameplay wise, is there anything you noticed? e.g. big wars, playing in Europe, not in Europe?

i have this problem but my laptop sucks, so probably i'm not the best example, anyway

1) yes
2) permanent
3) i'm playing iron-man, i didn't try non-ironman
4) i'm playing as Najd and it's almost 1600 (long campaign, didn't try other tag). It happens in war and in peace. Anyway in my campaign the league war is on and after almost 10 years they are still fighting

 

[Knut Skallagrim]

Slower in general but also a LOT slower if you put something like 20 custom nations on the map!

@ForzaA

1) yes
2) permanent, game generally becomes noticeably slower around 1600s and very slow in 1700s
3) iron man, but when i play with custom nations i never enable it, and it still gets slow when i play with them since the very beginning
4) well game got very laggish on 30 years war, but that is normal, or on big wars as you said, but there's still a general slowdown

 

[Chev]

Can confirm the bad performance, it's the first time I really have performance issues with the game at all.

Right from the start it is noticeably slower than in previous patches, but it tends to get even worse as the game progresses.
Even on Speed 2 I have some hiccups. Played Songhai and Switzerland, both Ironman.

It's probably not El Dorado-related as I don't even own the DLC. Must be 1.11 or one of the hotfixes.

 

[toroltao]

It's slower at the beginning, but still playable. Around the mid 1500s to 1600s it gets pretty bad though.

 

[Krajzen]

Damn I thought Paradox dev will come and say 'ok there is a bug hotfix incoming' and here nobody knows what's happening

I also have problems with performance. All game, all saves, all modes, all time, it is just universally slower as the game 'stutters' all time.

My question is why that happens after 1.10/1.11?! These patches were relatively SMALL! I expected something like that after 1.8 and here we go, now that happens?

 

[Monoslay]

We haven't particularly noticed any slowdowns during testing, but we're investigating.

For those of you suffering the slowdowns;
Do the slowdowns persist after a save/quit/restart ? (1)
Are the slowdowns "permanent" after a certain time, or does it get better again later? (2)
Are you noticing the issue playing Ironman, non-Ironman, both? (3)
Gameplay wise, is there anything you noticed? e.g. big wars, playing in Europe, not in Europe? (4)

1) Yes, the slowdowns persist.
2) It's permanent and doens't get better.
3) I'm playing Ironman.
4) I'm playing as Orissa, but I have colonies in Africa, South-America and the West Indies. Being at war doens't have an impact.

Thx for trying to fix this, I find this very anoying.

 

[Polskers]

We haven't particularly noticed any slowdowns during testing, but we're investigating.

For those of you suffering the slowdowns;
Do the slowdowns persist after a save/quit/restart ?
Are the slowdowns "permanent" after a certain time, or does it get better again later?
Are you noticing the issue playing Ironman, non-Ironman, both?
Gameplay wise, is there anything you noticed? e.g. big wars, playing in Europe, not in Europe?

1) Yes.
2) Permanent, from the start of the game for me.
3) Both Ironman and non-Ironman.
4) Playing as Ming in 1444, it's just generally slow overall. Speed 5 feels like speed 3, etc., and it has since the induction of 1.11.

 

[A-150]

The new exploration mechanic may be the cause, it may have put more strain on one of your cores. My game runs about the same as it did before, but mine already ran slow.

You could also try these mods, they might help increase your speed.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?742744-MOD-Non-reflective-Water&highlight=Water
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?757912-MOD-Better-Fog-of-War

 

[Krajzen]

Do you really believe replacing 'click on TI' with 'click on auto mission button' is slowing down the game more than 900 new provinces and 100 new countries and autonomy counter for each province from AOW?

 

[A-150]

Do you really believe replacing 'click on TI' with 'click on auto mission button' is slowing down the game more than 900 new provinces and 100 new countries and autonomy counter for each province from AOW?

The slow down is new since 1.10, and the new exploration system was added in that patch so it could be the culprit.

 

[CNY10000]

We haven't particularly noticed any slowdowns during testing, but we're investigating.

For those of you suffering the slowdowns;
Do the slowdowns persist after a save/quit/restart ?
Are the slowdowns "permanent" after a certain time, or does it get better again later?
Are you noticing the issue playing Ironman, non-Ironman, both?
Gameplay wise, is there anything you noticed? e.g. big wars, playing in Europe, not in Europe?

1.Yes.
2.It might get better sometimes but very likely to get worse again. No significant permanent lag.
3.Non-Ironman. I never play under ironman.
4.The issue gets much better after 2000(I changed the end date to 9999.12.31).

Mod:Typus Orbis Terrarum & end date changed to 9999.12.31

Thanks for trying to solve the problem.

Edit:
Intel i7-4700HQ
8GB RAM
NVDIA GT750M

 

[AE911truth_org]

It might be a good idea for people who experience slowdown to specify how much system memory their computer has, especially if it's near the bare minimum recommended. I experienced significant slowdown playing Civilization IV but the speed improved after I added memory to my computer.

 

[Peanutcat]

I've been seing some slowdowns towards the end of the game. GTX 770, 8gb ram and i5 2500k (clocked to 4.3ghz). Seem to be at it's biggest during major wars although still there even when they're all at peace although not as extreme.

 

[royalguardneo]

WOW this thread really exploded over the weekend and hey someone from Paradox is on here now!

It might be a good idea for people who experience slowdown to specify how much system memory their computer has, especially if it's near the bare minimum recommended. I experienced significant slowdown playing Civilization IV but the speed improved after I added memory to my computer.

16GB of RAM

@ForzaA

1. Yes, doesn't make a difference
2. I would say they are permanent all the time, although it speeds up and slows down randomly.
3. I only play in Ironman
4. Big wars and playing in the HRE make things REALLY REALLY slow. Things were less slow in the middle of Siberia.

I want to point out that a FRESH install of 10.0 and 11.0 BEFORE the hotfixes produce the fastest gameplay. The moment those hotfixes start piling on, the slowdowns come back.

Over the past week of this thread I have started to get 'used' to the slow down. I have watched the clock speed at 5 during a month in Ironman and it seems that some days go faster then other days. They go faster, slower, normal, slower, faster. They can slug at what seems to be speed -.05 and jump to speed 5. I normally keep my game running at speed 5 unless I'm in a war, which makes this whole thing even more noticeable.

Here is what I would compare the 'slow' / 'laggy' game speed to - Less then the recommended hardware level. When you are on a computer that does not meet the requirements and you reach the menu it will lag as it zooms in on the map. That experience right there is what many people are currently experiencing with computers that are WELL within the requirements. Could it be the way updates are implemented now? I have no idea - way out of my pay grade. I don't know if any of this helps.

 

[lareman]

In the start the game's pretty fast, but slows down considerably over time for me. In the 1700's it generally becomes over 5 seconds for each tick.