Late game performance is now incredibly smooth.

[zodium]

I have a pretty CPU and RAM-loaded computer built for statistical work, but up to 1.8, late game would always turn into a battle with my computer more than the game rules anyway. I just loaded up a late game save and it is beautiful, so if you don't usually play past 1650-1700, give it a try! There is an actual difference between speed 4 and 5 for me now, it's a major improvement.

 

[Krajzen]

Wow. Can other people confirm this?

 

[ChildeR]

Loading a late save with 1.9 I do see good performance. However, with 1.8.1 my late game performance was inconsistent: the game would run fine, then after e.g. an hour it would slow down. Restarting sometimes helped, but not always. So I'm not ready to declare it an improvement.

 

[zodium]

Still smooth.

 

[Andrei Cuza]

Loaded an 1774 save with Spain, almost all of the map is explored and the game loads faster and runs slightly faster on x4 and x5. I'm running it on an raggedy Fx 4100 and 4Gigs of RAM.

BUT, this is without mods. And I didn't leave it running for long periods of time. Some extensive testing may be required.

So far so good though.

 

[olm]

Time to add some more provinces

 

[Witto]

Yeah the optimization improved. I do see a decrease in CPU load, which is nice. Now I can have chrome, steam, origin and few more programs open again while playing. Nice!