Main Game Performance

[unmerged(65556)]

Im crossing my fingers for the "day-one-patch". The game gets unplayable on my comp as soon as the names of the provinces show up on the map.

Playing only in medium zoom (no names/simple counters) is no fun...atleast at the moment.

 

[makif130289]

Johan; could we be able to lower resolution more(for example 800x600) for better performance by means of a patch..

 

[unmerged(96808)]

Johan; could we be able to lower resolution more(for example 800x600) for better performance by means of a patch..

This makes no performance difference to me, a 16:10 monitor lowered to 1024x768 still takes 8 secs a day, and lags at late 23pm and early 2am.

 

[makif130289]

This makes no performance difference to me, a 16:10 monitor lowered to 1024x768 still takes 8 secs a day.

I am talking about lower resoulution than 1024x768..I just hope it would improve..

 

[unmerged(148271)]

This game isn't power hungry, it doesn't really know how to use power. I just ran some tests. Game on extreme speed consumes 900 MB of RAM ( i still have 500 free), and barely 30% CPU power (i have E6740, so 2.66 Ghz). I also ran HoI2 at the same time with HoI 3. Except barely slower load time, game runs like day per 2 secs, while HoI 3 runs just the same.

 

[unmerged(96808)]

This game isn't power hungry, it doesn't really know how to use power. I just ran some tests. Game on extreme speed consumes 900 MB of RAM ( i still have 500 free), and barely 30% CPU power (i have E6740, so 2.66 Ghz). I also ran HoI2 at the same time with HoI 3. Except barely slower load time, game runs like day per 2 secs, while HoI 3 runs just the same.

Lucky for you, i have 4 gbs of ram, but its still slow to crawl.

 

[unmerged(12303)]

Well, the releaseday patch has quite some optimisations done.

But it is weird that some people with highend machines get lag problems while people at lower pc's run it flawlessly.

good to hear - Ive got a new rig couple of days ago especially for this..
Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz Intel Centrino 2, 4 GB RAM, 640 GB Hard Disk Drive, DVD SMDL, 17" TruBrite WXGA, Nvidia Geforce 9700M GTS 512 MB dedicated VRAM

and it loads very slowly - exits to main screen very slowly and really jumps around when I scroll..

 

[unmerged(65556)]

Johan; could we be able to lower resolution more(for example 800x600) for better performance by means of a patch..

On all the three systems i tested the demo on, changing the resolution did not increase the performance.

 

[makif130289]

On all the three systems i tested the demo on, changing the resolution did not increase the performance.

so, I am really losing all my hopes..

 

[TheJoker]

so, I am really losing all my hopes..

i dont think the lag happening is a GPU issue...for example the stuttering when scrolling across the map ... i did some traces and it seems that it allways stutters when the game tries to load something from the disk ... maybe thats the problem. HOI2 has thousands of small files and one way or another harddrives arent very good at reading those.

 

[unmerged(148271)]

It really doesn't matter what machine you have, this game can't use it.

 

[unmerged(12303)]

its really weird that they are havening so many problems - I mean the game is based on the Eu3 engine which seems to play out very nicely on my machine?

 

[unmerged(96808)]

i dont think the lag happening is a GPU issue...for example the stuttering when scrolling across the map ... i did some traces and it seems that it allways stutters when the game tries to load something from the disk ... maybe thats the problem. HOI2 has thousands of small files and one way or another harddrives arent very good at reading those.

Hard drive red LED keeps flashing? consider defrag your system first.

 

[Tuna-Fish]

Well many of the reported lag issues do not relate to processor speeds. Some even get higher speeds by turning of a couple of cores.

hey, have you tried setting cpu affinity for the hoi3 process?

if the process is being switched to different cores a couple of times a second like xp likes to do, that could ruin performance.

 

[Invader_Canuck]

Game is very nice overall, but i'm rather disappointed graphics-wise...

For a bit of eye candy (a bit), i get lag (actual lag) when i select units or zoom-in map...

laptop
Nvidia 8600M GT
3 gb RAM
2.4ghz intel core duo

Those aren't the best characteristics but still.. basic gameplay is sluggish for v. little eye candy in return (and eye candy that I can't disable either; i really don't care about graphics, i care only about a good game, and atm graphics are ruining this v. good game for me)

You should learn to differentiate between FPS lag and processor/memory lag.

 

[hobnob]

Will it be the OS? On a gut feeling none of the Win7RC people complained on lag. Most lag report was on XP and significantly fewer on Vista (This surprises be a bit). Did you make a perf report matrix on reported memory, OS, proc, graphics? It can bring surprising results.

This seems like a plausible explanation to me; memory handling is different, and I guess also the multithreading-ability...

 

[adijarca]

hey, have you tried setting cpu affinity for the hoi3 process?

how do you do that?

 

[me987654]

Will it be the OS? On a gut feeling none of the Win7RC people complained on lag. Most lag report was on XP and significantly fewer on Vista (This surprises be a bit). Did you make a perf report matrix on reported memory, OS, proc, graphics? It can bring surprising results.

That makes no sense... XP usually gives BETTER performance than Vista on the same hardware.

 

[oribiasi]

It lagged horribly for my mid-level specs machine. I have run EU3 flawlessly, but this game...oh man, I feel like Crysis ran better.

 

[bbasgen]

Windows XP SP3
E8400 2.66 Ghz (Core 2 Duo)
2 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 4670 (512 MB)

The game is smooth when paused -- I can zoom in and out, move around the map, no problem.

The game has two points of slowdown: (1) it takes a very long time (around 15-20 seconds) for province names to populate; (2) even on very fast speed, the time of day does not move forward very fast.

EU3, on the same machine, absolutely screams on the fastest speed.