So...

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Just got my Vicky 2 (yay ), patched it to 1.2 and intend to give it a serious try, but it does seem stable so far. I haven't encountered the performance issues mentioned yet, but i would expect to. Considering the gameplay depth, the added burden of gorgeous graphics could easily send performance out the window. I am confident that future patches will fix Vicky 2, but the issue must be taken under consideration for all future games. After all, i believe we all prefer gameplay to graphics here, don't we?

It's not graphics, it's POP handling. POPs are the biggest performance drain - fixing issues that cause unnecessary/too many calculations will fix performance.

 

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I have never understood this idea that Paradox games should be perfect upon release. Paradox releases some of the most complicated games I have seen, let alone the fact they dont have the wallets like some of the bigger companies. So if you dont like there aproach to makeing games maybe you should just stick to the more mainstream companies... oh no wait they dont care about you're problems.

 

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So, to sum up. If you don´t like the games and their lake of patching, don´t buy them? Well, I do like the games, but there seems, to me, that there is more time spent on sprites then on patching. To make V2 playable I had to browse this forum to find "private" solution...
I don´t care that YOU are happy with the situation, I am only happy with solutions.

Update: The problems in HOI3 and V2 are still there...