Slow even at top speed compared with EUIV

[hannibal_barca]

hi guys.

Just wanted to make sure if it was just my computer or is does this game just run slower than EUIV?

A few centuries in after the earliest start date At top speed it takes a good 10 seconds or more for a month to go by.

I have a powerful gaming desktop and EUIV goes by like a hot knife through butter (4 seconds tops for a month to play by at top speed).

I'm guessing its just a processing bottle-neck?

 

[AndrewT]

Well that's a change, since EU4 has been the slow one recently.

Is this in any save game, or just one particular one?

Please post a dxdiag.txt (you can delete everything after the end of the "Sound devices" section for brevity) and your Documents/CK2/settings.txt. From your Documents/Paradox/CK2/logs/ directory, post system.log . Open setup.log in notepad and search for 'checksum', post that line only here too please.

 

[hannibal_barca]

Thank you for the prompt response.

It happens with all my saved games.

Whenever I start a new game it runs very fast and a month goes by in a few seconds. However a half hour into the game it slows down to a
Crawl!

Here are the diag infos.


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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/6/2014, 20:19:15
Machine name: CAMILO-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: MSI
System Model: MS-7693
BIOS: BIOS Date: 10/08/13 16:03:23 Ver: 04.06.05
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8142MB RAM
Page File: 2667MB used, 13613MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

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Monitor Id: GTW037B
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Driver Version: 9.18.13.4460
DDI Version: 11
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
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Checksum is 2.2.0.5 (TLRD) -811510511

 

[AndrewT]

refreshRate=0

Change this to =60 .
Does fullScreen=yes help?


That aside no real problems visible in there. "Slows to a crawl"? Like, suddenly? If you save that game, exit CK2 and restart, does it speed up again?

Does it make any difference whether it's an Ironman game or not? If it saves locally or to the cloud? If saves are compressed or not?


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 20 minutes' play. If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install


GPU-Z http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
and

CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

or
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php\

 

[hannibal_barca]

Slows to a crawl in the sense that the top 3 speeds, that is fastest, second fastest, and third fastest all pretty much are the same speed when it slows down. It stutters a bit. Basically- much much slower than EUIV. I thought it was a processing bottleneck because there are many more calculations going on in CKII than EUIV. it is not sudden, it starts slowing down about half hour after launching a new game (at first it is lightning fast).

Saving game, exiting CK2 and restarting does not make it go faster. Starting a new game will.

I don't play ironman. I will try one and see if it makes a difference.

I save locally and try not to compress the saves.


I will post the temps of my cpu and gpu tomorrow.

Thank you for the prompt responses I greatly appreciate it


p.s.

I made the changes you suggested and no difference.

My computer can be ice cold from being idle, load up a game and it will still be slow.


Saving games under cloud/local or compressed/non compressed doesn't make a difference

 

[Kalarhan]

My computer can be ice cold from being idle, load up a game and it will still be slow

Just a note: temperature can vary in a few seconds depending on CPU usage. It does not matter if it was idle 2 minutes ago.

E.g: my notebook goes from 50C to 85C in less than 1 minute and stays in the 80-85 range (I run a script that keeps tab on my temperature every 30sec)

 

[hannibal_barca]

My CPU is running at 45C and my GPU is also ice cold when running CKII with its slow speed even at the game's top speed.

Its not the heat that is slowing down processing.

 

[AndrewT]

There are some more speed improvements in 2.2.0.6 .

Also have you tried setting ck2game.exe to High Priority in Task Manager? Also, setting the Affinity to just, say, 2 cores?

If that doesn't help, I'm out of ideas for you, sorry

 

[hannibal_barca]

Yes to all.

Not the end of the world though,Its playable, just much much slower than EUIV which I though/think is odd.

Btw, I only play Muslim nations. I'm going to try a game a with a non-muslims state and see if it make a difference.

nonetheless thank you for the feedback