You'd be surprised on that one, I recall going from a 700x to a 1950x on my old old PC for the original EU3 and that give it one nice kick as far as speed was concerned.
Just me, or is the game just really slow
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You'd be surprised on that one, I recall going from a 700x to a 1950x on my old old PC for the original EU3 and that give it one nice kick as far as speed was concerned.
well it is really really slow when playing ironman, but that is because all the autosaves and their server is laggy as all get out. Sometimes saves take 30sec - 1 minute, I have 100/mb sec connection, it is their server for sure. Other than that, its all to do with your hardware. Non ironman I can run a year in about a minute and a half.
I'm not too far from that right now. What's the fastest year-times people are clocking on speed 5?
before this happened it worked very good. and now it is slow. I think it is because i have a slow connection now.
That is horrendously slow!
I was told Speed 5 is as fast as the PC can handle.
I just benchmarked one year at 39.8 seconds. Which works out to 3.32 seconds / month.
That was GBR, year 1600, and I zoomed all the way out until units weren't moving around so it wouldn't have to update the UI. I have lots of notifications set to popup (none to pause) and I just ignored those as they piled up.
That's on an Quad Core (with HyperThreading) i7-920 running at 2.9ghz (slight overclock, I think base speed is 2.8), Windows 7 SP1, 12GB RAM (not that most of that is needed.), SSD for C: (though that's also unlikely to affect the speed, besides saving) The PC was top of the range in 2010, much less so now obviously.
I run the game at 1920x1080 resolution in Fullscreen Windowed mode, with three monitors so I have a couple of other apps also in the foreground - eg. Chrome with 15 tabs - but no other apps using much CPU at the time, I believe.
One thing I find interesting is that I haven't noticed much slowdown while recording the game. Granted, I'm only doing my LP at 15 frames/second because this game really doesn't need 30+ (very little in the game occurs where you can perceive the difference, but you can perceive the file size difference!). Usually recording is both processor and graphics heavy, so I was expecting more of a performance hit than I got (there IS one, just very minor).
Does this game actually use multiple cores? I'd imagine it would, since it's pretty new.
Edit:
I was able to pull up one of my videos on my phone. I'm clocking ~13 seconds a month. Pretty terrible compared to some of you here who are over 3 times faster.
Yep. I'm going to start shopping now.
Does this game actually use multiple cores? I'd imagine it would, since it's pretty new.
Edit:
I was able to pull up one of my videos on my phone. I'm clocking ~13 seconds a month. Pretty terrible compared to some of you here who are over 3 times faster.
Yep. I'm going to start shopping now.
I get about 1 month in 2-2.5 seconds on my gaming computer (i7 3770K OCd to 4 GHz).
I almost never go into speed 5, it is simply far far too fast for me. When I do use it, it is like 'clink clink clink' all the time from the taxes each month. Simply speaking it is impossible to manage. Speed 4 is my default speed, with a lot of pauses for all the pop-ups. But I think we have established that it is a matter for each computer, and mine is pretty powerful (not impossibly so though, just enough to run most stuff at max).
The only time I've run into any issues was when the HRE with his 600k+ reinforcements in every province army declared wars. I was also streaming at the same time which is incredibly CPU heavy, in every other game it's been as smooth as can be, regardless of speed.
Yes - Speed 5 will go as fast as the game engine and your hardware will allow. All speeds below it are capped, but can go slower (same for Speed 5) than they are intended, if your hardware can't keep up.
Speed 5 on a machine like yours would make starts like Aztec and Creek more playable, however.
When you need 1.5k monarch points to research a tech and only need to occasionally replace an advisor every 20 years, clink clink clink is exactly what you want to hear. What else are you doing to do, manage merchants on those 1-2 trade nodes you know about? Defend against nothing at all until colonizers show up since you vassal'd your neighbors already? Lol.
On your machine, you can advance tech in the new world in less real-world time that I could with a western tech group. That's everything I need to know to upgrade
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My machine is so slow that with certain nations in V2 I can safely take a shower while the game chugs away.
Necro, the version from 2013 isn't meaningful to compare with the present one.. You're better off starting a new thread (or look for a more recent one) if you want to discuss performance.
