Performance issues? Stuttering? Please post your specs here!

[GAGA Extrem]

We are currently seeing multiple reports about performance issues and stuttering with the recent 1.3 patch.

Since we were not able to reproduce these issues on our machines, I'd like to use this thread to gather more information about the systems of people who are affected.

If you are experiencing severe performance issues and/or stuttering, please leave a message in this thread with:
(1) a brief description of the issue
(2) an attached DX.Diag logfile of your system

Doing so will help us to find denominators in terms of software and/or hardware specs that may be related to the issue, and it will reduce the amount of duplicate threads in the bug forums.

Thank you!

 

[CaptinObvious]

DxFile.

It should be noted that the issue (on my end at least) seems to be very fast tick rate *combined* with low framerate/bad frame timing, which causes an effect that feels like stutter, paradoxically leading to performance being both better and worse

 

[lklupxD]

High fps, but stuttering after each ingame day. Doesn't matter if on lowest speed or highest speed,lowest or highest graphic setting, window mode or fullscreen. While paused everything is smooth. Didn't had the problem when rolling back to the previous game version.

 

[osten1770]

No problems playing 1.2 on my MacBook Pro but once I upgraded to 1.3 it stutters. Crashes frequently to.

 

[AlleyTheToaster]

Problem is, that it ran really smooth, best out of all PDX games. Even on autosave there wasn't any stutters. Now it runs pretty terrible. FPS is around 36 at all times, constant stutters and freezes.

 

[dpac]

I'm getting some sttutering. Using I5 4460, gtx970 and 8gb ram, used to run fine before.

 

[DavidMcConnor]

Seemed to work fine before livy, now I seem to get daily stuttering.

 

[TheMind]

Continuos stuttering (MacBook Pro late 2016 13", no Touch Bar). I leave the DxDiag, thank you!

 

[Atomader]

Too much stuttering when time ticks.

 

[Mike6979]

I am an I5 8600 with a 1070Ti video card, Win 10 home premium. Built myself, I have the absolute minimum of programs running the background.

In Livy i am getting constant stutter, such as going through a list of characters available for a job.

 

[EsCalibur]

Thanks a lot for pinning such an important issue. I wish we would get the same treatment with Stellaris & HoI IV. (pinned topic on the front page)

On the release I had huge stuttering problems. The game was unplayable for me. But every patch it was getting a little bit better. With Cicero update I still had stuttering problem on the day tick, but It was at least playable on speed 1-2. Scrolling around the map on speed 3 wasn't smooth, but acceptable.

I was waiting badly for the Livy update to finally started playing Imperator. Unfortunately, in a current state I experience just as huge stuttering, as on release. Even on speed 1 and 2 day tick is an issue. Starting with speed 3 it's just getting worse. You cannot play or enjoy the game.

And I've got a 2 seconds - lag on a monthly tick. (or 2 seconds freeze every first day of the month)

(playing around with resolutions/video options, etc. don't provide any difference at all with stuttering on PDS games for me)
Unfortunately I have the same issue with Stellaris and Heart of Iron IV.

thank you

p.s. if you need, i can record a video of daytick/stuttering on my side

 

[llbrennerll]

The performance is acting really weird for me. It is like all the way up to 50 and 60fps, but then at every passing month (1st of every month), it drops to 18 or 15. I even disabled auto-save, but it is not related to it.

 

[Furleppe]

There is definitely something wrong with the game right now. On Ryzen 3600 patch 1.3 runs a lot worse compared to 1.2, with constant stuttering. While 1.2 was like, the smoothest running PDX game, even on my earlier ancient Xeon x5670 CPU.

 

[Nirmara]

Linux player here, I wasn't getting stuttering before 1.3. Hope the equivalent to a DxDiag file I generate will help.

 

[arctus]

heavy stuttering after 1.3 update, didnt have that before

 

[molkemon]

Also experiencing noticeable stuttering while time is running even on low speeds, there is noticeable stutter on every single day tick. Months ticks sometimes take multiple seconds to complete even at the start of the game. No problems at all with 1.2

FPS are generally not bad though, on speed 4 i get 80 fps, on speed 5 about 50,

 

[dstockydale]

Game stutters when time is running. Issue present with all graphic settings. FPS at 57/58fps with stuttering still present. Fps drops to 25/30fps when speed more than 3x speed. Side note: game crashes if I click the mouse when game is loading on splash screen. As of just now, game won't launch - getting a crash report dialogue box on startup.

 

[DPP]

Stuttering on the map, not when paused, but when the time is running, gets worse the higher the game speed. At game speed 5 it's like a strobe.

I9-9900K CPU
RTX 2080 TI Graphics
32 GB RAM

 

[White-Wolf]

Stuttering when game is run at full speed on both computers.

 

[vallin]

I am experiencing stuttering on each daily tick, regardless of speed. It's just the same as it was on release for me. Other than that, it's running pretty smoothly.