HoI4's performance seems to be very smooth already

[seattle]

I was impressed by the Word War Wednesday videos. They played the game on speed 3 out of 5, slightly above normal in previous HoI terms.
We only saw pre-war footage, so that performance will slow down during the war. What I observed so far:
1 day takes ~5 seconds on speed 3/5 if not doing something performance-heavy.
It slowed down a bit when they zoomed in and out on speed 3/5, there were some framerate drops.

In general this is a very promising state the game is currently in. What are your impressions about the performance thus far?

 

[Daelyn75]

I was impressed by the Word War Wednesday videos. They played the game on speed 3 out of 5, slightly above normal in previous HoI terms.
We only saw pre-war footage, so that performance will slow down during the war. What I observed so far:
1 day takes ~5 seconds on speed 3/5 if not doing something performance-heavy.
It slowed down a bit when they zoomed in and out on speed 3/5, there were some framerate drops.

In general this is a very promising state the game is currently in. What are your impressions about the performance thus far?

I noticed that as well. It seems to run smooth, and doesn't crash despite the two videos made for it. I can only hope that the only real hurdles left are minor bug squashing, and tweaking. I'd like for them to announce for Christmas it's release date too! That would be a nice Christmas present for all of us rabid fans.

 

[Axe99]

Agreed, I was very impressed by the performance - it'll be interesting to see how it goes once things get hectic, and once more nations have built up their militaries, but very good signs at this stage .

 

[seattle]

I wonder if counters will improve performance significantly over sprites. In previous HoI's you could at least reduce loading times by deleting the sprite folder.

 

[Nuklearius]

I#

 

[Sanny]

I was impressed by the Word War Wednesday videos. They played the game on speed 3 out of 5, slightly above normal in previous HoI terms.
We only saw pre-war footage, so that performance will slow down during the war. What I observed so far:
1 day takes ~5 seconds on speed 3/5 if not doing something performance-heavy.
It slowed down a bit when they zoomed in and out on speed 3/5, there were some framerate drops.

In general this is a very promising state the game is currently in. What are your impressions about the performance thus far?

Keep in mind they were playing the game on their own office systems, and the videos are edited/cut. In general, I think the majority of us will have no problem playing the game on our own systems, however with no doubt some players will experience performance issues. When you develop a game on PC, you need to take into account the thousands of combinations of hardware and software all working together, where as when you develop a game for Console, you have to worry about 2-3 different kind of systems.
If you do experience performance issues, you will have to make a technical report in the HoI:IV Bug & Support forum and communicate the problem with the devs and they'll hopefully try and resolve your issue.

 

[MGL 86]

Ironman mode in speed 5 is challenging for my poor laptop

 

[Nuklearius]

Ironman#

 

[vota dc]

Wait, are you serious with this? Which Paradox game lags for you on speed 3??? For me, none. But as soon as you go higher than that CK 2, EU4, VIC 2, they all begin to lag very badly, especially late game. So before they actually play them on higher speeds you can't really say anything about it...

Even Hoi 2 lags at higher speeds after 1939.
Hoi 3 had an issue about map: game and unit speed were ok but map take a bit to refresh.

 

[seattle]

Even Hoi 2 lags at higher speeds after 1939.
Hoi 3 had an issue about map: game and unit speed were ok but map take a bit to refresh.

Darkest Hour isn't and that's based on the HoI2 engine.

 

[Sun_Killer]

i can play hoi 3 on speed 5 without a single problem even if i am at war with soviets as germany. Only autosaves may take 1-2 secs

 

[Nuklearius]

i#

 

[Sun_Killer]

... yet you still will receive slow downs. Very often some unit will get stuck in a no infrastructure province and the whole game would slow down extremely.

not for me. I often have units stuck some where in sebiria or finnland, with no problems

 

[seattle]

Jesus! Watch today's World War Wednesday video! They got the game running on full whack (5 out of 5) and it's about 2 days per second!! That's Vicky2 kind of speed! Granted it's Finland in 1936, but that's still fantastic news. Whoever disagrees, remember HoI3 1.0...

 

[Nuklearius]

Jesu#

 

[seattle]

HOI 3 with the finest hour runs pretty much the same for me (1936). I just hope it doesn't end like CK2 where every DLC made the game a bit slower...

It might slow down when the a.i. is actually activated...

 

[Shade205]

Yea sadly it seems like the AI isn't in the game.

Finland took Moscow with a single division.