Game speed much too high!

[Wellington]

Hello there. I loved playing EUIII and just purchased EUIV. Immediately the game speed really turned me off. The slowest speed seems three times faster than the slowest in EUIII. This forces me to pause all the time which is no fun. Anyone else that feels the same?

 

[highsis]

Your game is clearly bugged or you are making some mistakes I can't fathom. Try to get help in the tech forum.

 

[Encak]

I think you need to be in Comcast commercial dressed up as a turtle.

 

[ciadude2]

Open Internet Explorer in the background - about 40 tabs worth of porn ought to slow you down. Maybe a few more or a few less depending on how fast your PC is.

 

[aragonFTW]

I really felt overwhelmed at the start in paradox games, although it was worse in Hearts of Iron where there are constant popups too. Granted, I wasn't a seasoned veteran like yourself. I need time to familiarise myself with any new interface and paused all the timeat the start of EU4. Now I rarely do.

Also, the speeds are much closer to EU3 (maybe slower) in a multiplayer game.

 

[ciadude2]

In all seriousness, I play on speed 5 mostly, pausing to make decisions and choices. I love the fact that the newer PI games have multiple speeds.

 

[heliostellar]

In all seriousness, I play on speed 5 mostly, pausing to make decisions and choices. I love the fact that the newer PI games have multiple speeds.

Same

 

[Mr Tex]

In all seriousness, I play on speed 5 mostly, pausing to make decisions and choices. I love the fact that the newer PI games have multiple speeds.

+1


However it is worth noting that depending on your PC, the speed may vary from person to person. Example is that my speed 5 is probably your speed 3 or 4 or vice versa.
So perhaps the OP's PC is a type of super computer who runs the speed 1 at our speed 5 levels.

 

[hwoosh]

I'm pretty sure the speeds below 5 are set at certain rates (or as fast as your system can handle), while speed 5 is as fast as your system can handle. (i.e., speed 1 is always 2 seconds per day assuming your system can handle it, and so forth.)

 

[ciadude2]

I'm pretty sure the speeds below 5 are set at certain rates (or as fast as your system can handle), while speed 5 is as fast as your system can handle. (i.e., speed 1 is always 2 seconds per day assuming your system can handle it, and so forth.)

This makes sense. EU:Rome and the ancient world mod for EU3 ran ridiculously fast for me at speed 5, even on my laptop whereas vanilla EU3 and EU4 are... well they're fast but they're not 3 seconds per month fast.

 

[Hummer]

Open Internet Explorer in the background - about 40 tabs worth of porn ought to slow you down. Maybe a few more or a few less depending on how fast your PC is.

lol, you just made my day....

On the serious side.
I use speed 1 when I'm at war with possible pausing. Peace time, I bump it up to 3 or 5 depending on what I'm doing.

 

[lockdown51]

In all seriousness, I play on speed 5 mostly, pausing to make decisions and choices. I love the fact that the newer PI games have multiple speeds.

Ditto. Though it takes a little getting used to.

 

[EbonMane]

I play Ironman, and at speed 5 I spend more time autosaving than the game spends actually processing gameplay.

 

[heliostellar]

I play Ironman, and at speed 5 I spend more time autosaving than the game spends actually processing gameplay.

Pretty much

 

[Thanik]

Omg, please give me problems like this

 

[Alblaka]

I usually always play on speed 2, or 3 if there is nothing to do but wait and FF. Only on my Laptop I go to speed 1 in critical wars, mainly because it 'lags' and will sometimes not pause instantly, but one day after. For precision troop movement, I need proper control ^^

 

[Avalen]

I play pretty much constant speed 4 and bump it up to speed 5 when nothing's happening. I rarely have the patience for speed 3 even in wars.

 

[tyler717]

i effectively play eu4 like a turn based game , speed 5 then just spam my space bar when i need to do something , during wars i drop down to 4

 

[Great One]

If you are having problems with the game being too fast (even at speed 1) then make sure that you are playing Ironman. This will ensure that you have to save to the cloud one time each month and whenever any major decision is made which should slow down your progress quite a bit even with a blazing fast Internet connection. This also has the added benefit of compelling you to go outside in the sunshine every now and again when the Steam servers are down for maintenance, over subscribed, or just plain unreachable from your ISP for mo particular reason.

 

[Atlanteax]

Here I play at game speed 3, with ample auto-pauses, as each second = a few days passes.