Nosedive in Performance (Marius 2.0)?

[Miles Invictus]

Anyone else noticed their games taking a huge hit in performance since the update? Pre-Marius I'd be able to run to endgame and beyond easily, with very fast and fluid game speed.

Now it's 582AUC/172BC - roughly midgame - and I'm getting very bad slowdown on fullspeed, playing as Rome with only Italia, Sicilia/Corsica/Sardinia, Illyria and parts of Greece.

At present, a typical month ingame plays as follows:

1. The first 5 days tick by crippingly slowly (pushing Stellaris tier endgame speeds)
2. Then there's a sudden boost from days 5-10
3. Then, another 5 days or so of a crawl
4. Then another boost from days 15-20
5. Repeat for the rest of the month and so on.

PS - Running this on an Alienware A51M, so it's not a hardware issue.

Anybody else encounter similar problems with the update?

 

[Miles Invictus]

UPDATE - Now all of a sudden it's running as fluid as ever again; oddly enough I had a few events occur just prior to the game picking up again, such as catching my governor of Cisalpine Gaul embezzling funds (and imprisoning him), as well as the "Breakthrough" event (connected with Inventions/Research). Upon further review, I noticed that I had a major war with the Antigonids there, and was in the midst of recovering my manpower reserve. The boost in performance coincides with a significant restoration to pre-war manpower levels (30k reserve or so).

I wonder; could the new Levy or Inventions rework have any mem issues or leaks?

 

[Arheo]

Interesting. If anything, we've seen the opposite: a general performance increase. I run the game on the same hardware as you describe with no issues, but would be interested to see if there are any situational issues causing a lot of heavy CPU load (a memory leak would likely cause a slow but consistent performance degradation) - could you attach a save to this thread?

 

[cristofolmc]

I dont think ive felt any change really in perfornance. For good or worse. For now. We'll see..

 

[Miles Invictus]

Sure Arheo; here's my savegame (original name I know). It's dated to a bit after the lag in question mind, but I hope it helps.

PS - It's been running fine since. I really don't know what caused the game lag spike, but I suspect it may be to do with an underlying event. My laptop itself had no major background tasks running (to my knowledge) and it's remained as such.

PPS - No mods installed or running either (entirely clean game)!

 

[Arheo]

Many thanks, I'll take a look at this tomorrow!