All of a sudden, and for no reason I can determine, yesterday my HoI4 just started crawling at a snails pace. Like, 20 minutes to reach March at speed 5. I was playing OWB at the time, the slowdown seemed to happen between launches. Like, I closed the game, launched it again, loaded an older save, and suddenly it was slow. But its slow on vanilla too, with no mods, and I have tried rebotting, reinstalling (both OWB specifically and HoI4 entirely), validating my files. Other paradox games are unaffected. I'm at a loss. The game has become unplayable.
Grueling slowdown
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There's no graphical lag at all, purely mechanical. The most intense storms and day/night strobing progress smoothly, shutting off every graphical frill makes no difference, but the actual clock lags out for half the day(which does make the day/night a bit weird), and panels and menus stutter in loading and processing clicks.
Did you already looked at your pc? Some process taking much cpu? Installed Win11? Virus scanner or some other software?
And most important…. In which year are you seeing this?
And most important…. In which year are you seeing this?
Right from startup, March of '36 is the one I mention. I did look at my PC, tried switching around the core affinities to see if one was loaded, no win11, no new antivirus
Does it go faster on speed 4?
My theory is that sometimes speed 5 gives a laggy feel because it pushes the CPU as fast as it can go.
My theory is that sometimes speed 5 gives a laggy feel because it pushes the CPU as fast as it can go.
I found one solution maybe useful to you. You may try to set DirectX 11 instead of DirectX 9 in the launcher to solve this problem.
By itself? That's remarkable.
Sounds to me that during your slowdown period some background process must have been active, eating up a lot of CPU cycles.
Sounds to me that during your slowdown period some background process must have been active, eating up a lot of CPU cycles.
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Hello!!! I hope all is well. I am running into this issue as well! Has anyone figured out what happened?
I also have uninstalled the mod to see if that would work and nothing.
It seems to just come and go....very weird....For example, game works fine at start up but as soon as I save the game and reload it....the game lags.
Corrupt saved files?
I also have uninstalled the mod to see if that would work and nothing.
It seems to just come and go....very weird....For example, game works fine at start up but as soon as I save the game and reload it....the game lags.
Corrupt saved files?
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Probably Windows Update installing in the background. I've seen that slow a computer to a crawl, but unless you know what to look for, you just have a slow computer.
If it was a background process, it was one that hides itself from Task Manager really well. I was checking my RAM and CPU usage on all my monitoring apps, nothing was taking more than HoI, and even stranger HoI wasn't taking that much, not maxing out its two cores, only needing about 2GB RAM and I have 16.
Task Manager doesn't show you everything.
If you want to see every single process that runs, use Process Explorer. It's also from Microsoft, but you have to download it first.
If you want to see every single process that runs, use Process Explorer. It's also from Microsoft, but you have to download it first.
OWB is has also given me this problem, multiple times. I don't remember how It got fixed in the past but when I went to play the mod recently, It gave me this issue with every other mod and vanilla even after uninstalling OWB. Anyone got any clues on what to do?
Last time I had crippling slowdown that came out of nowhere, the pump on my cpu cooler had seized and the cpu was thermal throttling. Check your temps. If you aren’t liquid cooled, a dying cpu heat sink fan could still be a possibility.
What is your hardware btw?
What is your hardware btw?
Ah shoot, I think my CPU is actually due for some new paste now that you mention it. Ill try and give that a go.
If anyone else has this issue, try deleting all of your savegames excluding the autosaves. That fixed it more me.