Game Slow For Anyone Else?

[Sindai]

What fascinates me is there are people who have like 4GB RAM and complain - like me - and people who have 16GB RAM and complain on the slowdown

That's not surprising at all, for two reasons:

RAM has nothing to do with speed unless you don't have enough and a process starts swapping out to the hard drive.

EU4 uses a 32-bit executable so it can only address up to 3GB before crashing, and in practice it uses much less than that unless you run a really heavy mod.

 

[josh127]

Thank you. Though it is a bit sad nobody will ever know what caused that sharp game speed decline after patches that limited compared with 1.8

Never know, we might come up with some piece of information that helps them find it still. For me it's gotten stranger. After doing a full clean reinstall my laptop seems to be working ok now except for some occasions when a lot of wars break out and month ticks take progressively longer even on months where there are no saves. On my desktop the clean reinstall didn't seem to change a thing, but when I play MP with someone else hosting, it works just fine. Of course the frustrating part is I haven't come up with something I can reproduce consistently.

 

[royalguardneo]

Never know, we might come up with some piece of information that helps them find it still. For me it's gotten stranger. After doing a full clean reinstall my laptop seems to be working ok now except for some occasions when a lot of wars break out and month ticks take progressively longer even on months where there are no saves. On my desktop the clean reinstall didn't seem to change a thing, but when I play MP with someone else hosting, it works just fine. Of course the frustrating part is I haven't come up with something I can reproduce consistently.

Yes, I don't have EXTREME slow down's any more, which is kind of strange. Speed 5 is still not 'SUPA FAST' like it used to be, it fluctuates from taking a few seconds for a month to 20 seconds a month. Maybe I'm just not noticing it as much any more? It's hard to tell, I just keep playing.

 

[unmerged(783658)]

Latest patch solved my issues. Game is like a lightning now.

 

[Camtheman]

Wanted to add:

EU4 lags for me as well when the whole map or most of it is visible, or when my country is very large and i have a large line of sight.

My computer is well up to the task of EU IV I think

EVGA SR-2 mobo
2x Xeon X5650 @ 3.5 GHz (overclocked)
2x GTX 670 4GB (SLI)
4k Samsung UD590D monitor
24 GB RAM