I wasn't given the chance. I reviewed a great number of posts, threads, and guides dated over a year ago that were claiming the developers were working on a fix for lag. Except the issue persisted, apparently, and no where I look is there a fix for my issue. I have contacted steam for a refund which I will happily cancel if I can get my issue fixed before it goes through. I wish it was not this way, this game looks like a lot of fun. Oh well.
I wanted to like this game so much
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Considering you haven't explicitly stated what your issue is, it may be difficult to help you resolve it.
If I knew what the issue is I would probably have it fixed by now. But, some of what I am experiencing includes massive lag spikes at the launch screen, in game menu, during game play(very early). I can't play it, it takes seconds to load actions.
That would be a downgrade for me lol. I have a i7-6700k, my rig is top tier 1080 strix o8g 32g of GSkill ram 3200Mhz and an aio corsair h110i.
Considering that's highly atypical, it might be worth posting your hardware specs as well as any diagnostics logs from the Stellaris steam folder. Between the two, maybe some of the savvier folks here can work out what's going on for you.
There's a weird thing going on: people with crazy high-end PCs come along saying "ugh this godawful lag", and people with mid-range units are like "what lag?".
CPU Intel Core i7 6700k
Motherboard Asus Maximus Hero VIII
GPU Asus Strix 1080-08G
Hard Drive Samsung 950 Pro 512g, 3x Samsung 850 Evo 1TB
Memory 4x8g G Skill Ripjaws 3200Mhz
Monitor Acer XB270H-U 2560x1440p 144hz GSYNC
Monitor 2x Acer K272HUL 2560x1440p 60hz
CPU Cooler Corsair H110i
I'm not even in the game when it happens. It starts at the launch screen and completely locks up my system for a few seconds.
This has to be it. It's nuts I can play witcher 3 fully modded on ultra with 0 lag... my system runs crysis like its tetris and this game is driving me nuts.
What should I do then I verified the local files reinstalled the game. Nothing is working. still lags.
It's a complex issue, most likely some very specific software and/or hardware combination is causing this lag.
Try to run it in backwards compatibility mode, or even install it on another hard drive, sometimes the silliest things will solve these type of problems.
And.... it seems to be fixed... I think. I did nothing.. I just loaded it up to try and play with some settings... and its running at 729fps... ok then
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Heck, I run it on an Macbook Air i7 1.7G with Intel HD 5000 graphics. Seriously.
What a weird and specific issue. Perhaps something is grabbing the focus in the background?
What a weird and specific issue. Perhaps something is grabbing the focus in the background?
you're problem is you bought an i7. i7 are bad at dealing with video games, only get i7 if you do media rendering or photo editing. games are massive single threads of number crunching and so when you have a CPU heavy game like this, you want an i5, it has less cores but because of this it's better suited to single thread programs.
not everything is bigger numbers based.
edit: if it;s fixed, it's fixed, but you may still end up with late game lag over an i5.
I recommend an i5 to anyone who's primarily a gamer.
I'm a programmer I have the i7 to render out all kinds of things, graphics, video, the code itself.
Plus "i7 are bad at dealing with video games" simply isn't true. Having more multithreaded performance is not a bad thing, and in general Core i7s have comparable or slightly better singlethreaded performance to Core i5s with the same architecture.