Time to run through 1 year at full speed?

[fleetothemoon]

A year last 30 seconds for you guys? dammmnnnn. It's taking me 3 minutes with all graphics option on, 2 minutes and some with all of it off.

Running Nvidia Geforce GT 525M (3 gig) on an Intel quadcore i3 2.20GHz with 4gig ram...

If a year whizzes past in thirty seconds for me, AE won't even matter.

 

[Raliks]

Due to me being kind of obsessed with benchmarks and such I have been returning to this thread frequently and saw that no i5 (desktop) CPUs have been benchmarked. So I decided to turn off hyperthreading on my i7 3770k which basically makes it a i5 3570k with 2MB more of cache. I ran some benchmarks with the same settings as before.

1444.11.11 -> 1449.11.11 2:01min
1444 -> 1445 24s
1445 -> 1446 23s
1446 -> 1447 24s
1447 -> 1448 25s
1448 -> 1449 25s

Average: 24.2s

Which basiaclly confirms the community consensus that this game is not very hyperthreaded as I get basically the same speeds as with HT on. Just some useful information for understanding what components influence the speed of the game.

Relevant specs:
i5 3570k @ 4.5GHz (For this benchmark, actually an i7 3770k with HT off.)
8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600Ghz
GTX 660TI 2GB @ 986Ghz

 

[tekjunkie28]

this thread can be summed up with "EU4 is fine with one core" The game only used one core and only 30% of my entire processor.
i5 4670k at stock speed but core enhancement on (instead of turbo boost sometimes its full power all the time so 3.8ghz all cores-otherwise it would stay atlike 3.8 for one core under load)
8gb
680gtx
240GB 840 evo ssd

 

[Raliks]

I do no know why am so obsessed with this topic. However I decided to reduce clockspeeds and see the performance results then. I am comparing all of these result to my http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...8-Time-to-run-through-1-year-at-full-speed/#4previous benchmark.

i7 3770k @3.6Ghz (stock)

1444.11.11 -> 1449.11.11 2:28
1444 -> 1445 28s
1445 -> 1446 29s
1446 -> 1447 30s
1447 -> 1448 31s
1448 -> 1449 30s

Average: 29.6s

20% slower Clockspeed -> 20% Slower Gamespeed.

i7 3770k @2.7Ghz (Underclocked)

1444.11.11 -> 1449.11.11 2:56min
1444 -> 1445 34s
1445 -> 1446 35s
1446 -> 1447 36s
1447 -> 1448 35s
1448 -> 1449 36s

Average: 35.2s

40% slower Clockspeed -> ~33% Slower Gamespeed.

As tekjunkie28 noted this game is heavily single core focused and these numbers back it up. I reduced per core performance directly by lowering clock speed I got immediate performace loss as expected. This raises the question if a ivy bridge i3 clocked at the same speeds as my i7 gets to do the benchmark, would we close to the same performance or are there any other variables?

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You didn't actually show any numbers .