Stellaris post-Federations Ungodly Slow

[argentAegis]

Before Federations, ran smooth as silk. Yeah it would get laggy near the endgame, but I could just set my Priority to Realtime, and it would start working fine again.

Now, it just starts using about 76% of my CPU, runs super slowly - it takes like 1.5 seconds for a tooltip to appear - and issuing orders has like a 3 second delay. This is from the starting menu. The game itself is literally unplayable - it takes like 5 seconds for a day to pass, at highest speed.

Since I know someone is going to say "post ur dxdiag" here it is: https://pastebin.com/0UfsS0HZ , so it's not my computer that's the problem. I disabled all my mods.

 

[AndrewT]

I see you are having Windows update problems, which will need to be resolved so you can update Windows 10 versions - yours is 2 years old.

That aside let's try a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user_empire_designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add stellaris.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again.


Please attach your Documents/Paradox/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach system.log .

 

[Arosinek]

I have the same problem. Try to roll back game version.
2.7.2 Works like shit for me. 30fps at most at full speed and it take like 8s to complete the month. It's a lagfest too.
Rolledback to 2.5.1 and it works perfectly fine. 220 fps at full speed, no lags, month takes about 2-3s.

2.7.2 was an optimization update - no it wasn't. It made the game unplayable.