Slow game after 1.31.X

[nellaf]

Hello forum!
After the 1.31.X update, the game became very slow on my computer. In addition to the too slow flow of time, even at the fifth speed, the map twitches when moving and stops the game.

About a year ago(after update 1.29) I already wrote here about my problem, but then I was helped by running the game directly through eu4.exe, now even that doesn't work

How do I solve this problem?

CPU:AMD RYZEN 5 3600
RAM: 16 gb HyperX 3200 hgz
Windows 10 PRO

 

[StriderLS]

It's something we (players with low end pc/notebook) have to live with regretfully. After every major patch, game becomes slower and slower.

At least, devs make some performance improvements time to time. But after 1700, game is always noticably slower.

As for what can we do about it;

Lowering graphical options definitely makes the game run smoother. If you lower resolution, you can try turning on the experimental UI Scaling.

A fellow forum member recommended a mod called "Simple Universalis" for the same effect. I intend to give it a try myself.

Edit: Game runs so painfully slow in 1.31.4 during League Wars that, I had to tag switch to emperor, Yesman a peace deal and be done with it. I never had to resort to it till 1.31.

 

[nellaf]

It's something we (players with low end pc/notebook) have to live with regretfully. After every major patch, game becomes slower and slower.

At least, devs make some performance improvements time to time. But after 1700, game is always noticably slower.

As for what can we do about it;

Lowering graphical options definitely makes the game run smoother. If you lower resolution, you can try turning on the experimental UI Scaling.

A fellow forum member recommended a mod called "Simple Universalis" for the same effect. I intend to give it a try myself.

Edit: Game runs so painfully slow in 1.31.4 during League Wars that, I had to tag switch to emperor, Yesman a peace deal and be done with it. I never had to resort to it till 1.31.

Did you even read what I wrote? What does low PC mean? My processor is in the top 250 in terms of performance. My friend has a much weaker processor and everything is perfect. In addition, there were many other patches where provinces were added and there I had everything fine

 

[Blust]

Yeah same goes for me, since Leviathan update the game is almost twice slower than it used to be

 

[jubanos]

Yeah same here, speed 5 used to be too fast to play on my computer, now it's running really sluggishly. This is only on 1.31.3 though, not sure if they fixed it in the recent patch.

 

[fleetothemoon]

Your CPU is better than mine, and mine doesn't twitch at speed 5, and I can even find it even tolerable speed too in 1700s.

You should post in the technical support forum to get proper support instead of just having random forum posters chip in their 2cents.

 

[Zaddy]

It's something we (players with low end pc/notebook) have to live with regretfully. After every major patch, game becomes slower and slower.

At least, devs make some performance improvements time to time. But after 1700, game is always noticably slower.

As for what can we do about it;

Lowering graphical options definitely makes the game run smoother. If you lower resolution, you can try turning on the experimental UI Scaling.

A fellow forum member recommended a mod called "Simple Universalis" for the same effect. I intend to give it a try myself.

Edit: Game runs so painfully slow in 1.31.4 during League Wars that, I had to tag switch to emperor, Yesman a peace deal and be done with it. I never had to resort to it till 1.31.

His PC specs are not low end lol

 

[StriderLS]

Did you even read what I wrote? What does low PC mean? My processor is in the top 250 in terms of performance. My friend has a much weaker processor and everything is perfect. In addition, there were many other patches where provinces were added and there I had everything fine

Sorry, my bad. I really didn't read or paid attention to your PC specs.

The issue stands though. So it seems even some NASA super computers are having performance issues after Leviathan, as well as potato PC's. Weird.

 

[Zhetone]

the game is just more demanding for some reason, slower for everyone. could be the new tags everywhere.

 

[nellaf]

Your CPU is better than mine, and mine doesn't twitch at speed 5, and I can even find it even tolerable speed too in 1700s.

You should post in the technical support forum to get proper support instead of just having random forum posters chip in their 2cents.

Thank you, I will follow your advice!

 

[nellaf]

Thank you all, if I find a solution, I'll duplicate it here

 

[Kapitalisti]

I had a weird slowdown for a few years, maybe a decade, when playing in India a while ago. I just assumed it was because there was a huge 30 years war going on in Europe though. Or maybe some new events are firing up more than they should? I assume you have verified your local files and don't have any outdated mods?

 

[raikaria]

The game has to process all these new wonderfully relevant tags in SEA; Australia and New Zealand that will totally accomplish anything at all under AI control, as well as tallying Tribal Development for every single native.

That's gonna slow things down.

 

[nellaf]

The game has to process all these new wonderfully relevant tags in SEA; Australia and New Zealand that will totally accomplish anything at all under AI control, as well as tallying Tribal Development for every single native.

That's gonna slow things down.

Previously, both provinces and tags were introduced. Nothing, my CPU was coping

 

[birdboy2000]

Speed drops were bad enough I rolled back to 1.30.6 from 1.31.4, the drop is major. Not sure if it's just the new tags either.

 

[blackbirdgriffi]

Yeah since nation states birthed out of the pacific womb there has been a major performance drop, I usually play on speed 2-3 and while I had noticed incremental slow downs the last couple of years I recently had to install low performance mods from the workshop to go through the league war (before said mods I was going 10 FPS at speed 1 during the league war).

It's a small fix but thankfully those where savegame compatible so I would advise anyone who has those problem to install them if they want to play on leviathan patch, let's hope the devs patch it at some point in the future.

 

[Ninking]

Might be something like the old infamous castration issue in CK2: for each Greek character, the AI kept evaluating if it could and should castrate every other living character every day.

 

[crismac]

I have played thru 2 games so far and no slowdowns for me but I have spent an asinine amount of money on my desktop. So I would hope so. Maybe my 128 GB of overkill Ram makes a difference. Who knows in 1.31. How funny would that be in the store system requirements 128GB

 

[holyvigil]

I have played thru 2 games so far and no slowdowns for me but I have spent an asinine amount of money on my desktop. So I would hope so. Maybe my 128 GB of overkill Ram makes a difference. Who knows in 1.31. How funny would that be in the store system requirements 128GB

You played to 1820 on speed 4?

 

[Crazymalian]

From my experience, the big slowdowns happened during the big Ayuthaya VS the world coalition wars(from the dynasty bug), as well as the league wars. But it seems to be running more effectively now that im at 1570 and those have ended. I only have anecdotal evidence, but i think that is the reason, less so than the addition of more colonial tags.