[MEGATHREAD] Tick Lag/Stuttering Issues

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I have seen some stuttering. But im on the forums, facebook, watching a YT video and have some programs opened.

So far, everything its fine.
 

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No core maxed out after checking for thread hopping? I very much doubt that. Are you suign Windows or Afterburner etc to check? because they average it out over the polling frequency and it seems there is even distribution but actually the thread is just bouncing around.

I used Resource Monitor, but I've checked with ProcExp now, and it's about 30% max (on one core) when it stutters.
 
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@Johan are there any other troubleshooting steps you would like players to take to hopefully find the issue of the tick/day stutter? Any findings on what it may be caused by?
 

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I get stutter while panning the map around while unpaused, mostly. I did not really notice it regularly happening on day ticks, but it might have happened sometimes.

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Ironman currently on, having had it off earlier it seems to be the same though
 

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the game is playable in pause despite my little config but as soon as the game resumes at any speed, lags and stuttering ...
 

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No stutter playing CK2 and a tiny stutter with EU IV and HOI IV. But with this game, it's very pronounced as the day rolls over.
 

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Pretty hard daily stutter. Reminds me of the performance issue Stellaris was having after Megacorp game out.
 
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No fix or update yet. Nothing seems to fix the stuttering issue.

Performance improvements in the hotfix early next week, so we'll have to wait and see if they resolve the issue. Fingers crossed!

I tried all sorts of things, and I think it's a code fix and not a system issue at this point. Especially given that no streamer ran into the issue before release.
 

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game stutters when unppaused just like hoi 4 and stellaris,the difference is i can atleast play them at speed 2 but not Imperator.
 

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Please submit your computer specs if you are having stuttering issues. Other types of issues should be posted in separate threads.

Primarily we're interested in you CPU and GPU, and also if you are playing on ironman or not.

Please help us have people reporting the issue in other parts of the forum post this information in this thread. Thank you!

GPU: Asus RX480 (8 GB VRAM)
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Win10
Mode: Ironman

Game works flawlessly when paused, but there is a very short lag with every tick, which is especially noticable at x5 speed.
 

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Mode: both, use ironman more but both stutter the same.
 
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DxDiag attached, if it is of any interest.

Just play ironman, and it stutters on every day tick.
 

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