The performance killer: Rivers!

[justtoobad]

So EU4 runs a little sluggish (when zooming and moving the map) on my laptop. No big deal, but as CK2 runs perfectly, this is a little annoying.

After messing around with the graphics settings, I came to the conclusion that if I turned off rivers, the sluggishness is gone completely and the game ran much smoother.

So, maybe this is something for the devs to look into...

 

[justtoobad]

Anyone who can confirm this?

 

[Serio]

That would be why that option is there, for slower systems. Not sure what there is to look into.

 

[Cymsdale]

That would be why that option is there, for slower systems. Not sure what there is to look into.

They could look to see if the way rivers are rendered is sub-optimal surely.

 

[Thanik]

Disabling all graphic options can help, so I can confirm about river thing.

Spoiler

draw_terrain=yes
draw_water=no
draw_borders=yes
draw_trees=no
draw_rivers=no
draw_postfx=no
draw_sky=no
draw_bloom=no
draw_tooltips=yes
draw_hires_terrain=no
draw_citysprawl=no
draw_shadows=no
draw_reflections=no
draw_ambient_objects=no
moving_units=yes

 

[Serio]

Certainly, and I'm sure they will look at it if more people report it as a problem.

 

[Sn3ipen]

Every PDS game have this when your computer cant handle all the graphics. With my old computer I used to remove threes and install custom (ugly) maps to be able to play Vicky2 properly. At one point I had to turn off advanced waters in EU3. This is nothing new. Whats new is that you have the option in the menu, witch make it more obvious.