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Kind of an odd request here, I see lots of people needing help on how to optimize their PCs but I am looking to go in the other direction and there is limited information.
I've gone from my old potato build to finally getting fully upgraded and would like to push the advanced settings in "Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris" to their limit.

Already unlocked the Vsync and framerate, but would like any other suggestions people may have come across? I know the settings doc shows 120 as the max but it's pushing more like 340-400 if I don't cap it with my AMD tuning.

Thanks!
 

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IMO you don't want fps over 120 with this game, as you are pushing the GPU for no game purpose; as a non-action game any more fps has no benefit. And you risk overheating the GPU.

So aside from high fps rates what kind of things are you looking to improve?


DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .
 
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IMO you don't want fps over 120 with this game, as you are pushing the GPU for no game purpose; as a non-action game any more fps has no benefit. And you risk overheating the GPU.

So aside from high fps rates what kind of things are you looking to improve?


DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .
 

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Aside from high fps rates what kind of things are you looking to improve or increase? Do you actively want a frame rate over 60, or 120?



That aside, from that error log you may have a corrupted installation. Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user_empire_designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add stellaris.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again.