What was the most recent version with good performance?

[MatthewP]

I like the AI/balance changes on the new patch. But they (or maybe some other change) seem to have hurt performance quite a bit. I'm especially seeing this on a CK3 converted save which has larger nations (more like the late game I guess). For me, the improvements aren't worth having the game crawl along.

So, does anyone remember what the most recent patch with decent perf was so I can roll back until Paradox fixes this? I'd rather not go pre-Leviathan if possible, and I know I've played games since without issues so it should be.

 

[BadOrc]

1.25 if you actully Wana play late game with decent performance.

 

[MatthewP]

1.25 if you actully Wana play late game with decent performance.

The last patch before Leviathan was terrific on my machine, so no need to go that far back. Nothing since has been quite as good, but there were some that were ok. I'm digging through old threads now trying to see what the best option post-Leviathan is, looking like maybe 1.32.2.

 

[ancapailldorcha]

1.32 was fine for me. 1.30 was really nice. 1.31 was a trainwreck. I've not played since before 1.33 appeared so I've no idea what that's like.

 

[BadOrc]

The current patch runs like a toaster. I bet any patch would do the job better.

 

[Zaddy]

It's funny that people say the Emperor patch ran well, because I remember the forums were absolutely brutal on the performance drop that happened post-1.30.

 

[Terixis]

It's funny that people say the Emperor patch ran well, because I remember the forums were absolutely brutal on the performance drop that happened post-1.30.

Emperor had a big drop in performance but it ran like greased lightning compared to performance in more recent patches, especially 1.31 and 1.33.

1.30 came out almost two years ago, readjusting to 1.29 or earlier can feel a bit rough. It was a very major update and 1.30 honestly feels like the new "base" game at this point.

 

[Runite Drill]

Generally, anything pre-1.30 has fairly good performance. In my opinion probably 1.25 has the best balance of features and performance, although this would be a stark change if you're mostly used to the gameplay and features of 1.30+. 1.19 and 1.21 are also pretty great if you feel like going retro.

 

[Ferdinand_Bardamu]

Pre-1.30 had good performance, however I always found 1.30 was the sweet-spot between new stuff and provinces. Since then it went downhill. 1.32 I could deal with, but 1.33 is much worse for me. Not as bad as 1.31 though.

 

[Destaloss]

Guess they have too much code in general now...
time to cut things.

 

[ArtFart]

1.33 is fine for me, 1.32 was also good. I didn't have too many issues performance wise with 1.31, it was choppy but bearable. So if I was to say the most recent patch that has the best performance, probably 1.32, 1.33 2nd and then 1.31.

 

[Zdechlak]

I moved to 1.30. 1.33 was unplayable.

 

[MatthewP]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. For now I've moved to 1.32 and it's significantly better. So far I can't convince myself moving farther back is worth the features/perf tradeoff but maybe I'll try 1.30 or 1.29 one of these days.

Anyway, hopefully paradox knows this is a priority. CK2 had perf issues for years and they got things running really smoothly before moving on from the game, so I have hope we'll see something like 1.29 perf again.

 

[Calbrenar]

This is disheartening that there's not really anything more recent on performance. The latest patches have been really bad. Playing w/ my normal mp partner we are hitting max x2 speed almost at game start now. We used to be able to run x3 until like 1750 depending on how fast we blobbed.

 

[MERLIN CHANG]

The poor performance made me give up playing this game.

 

[Ferdinand_Bardamu]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. For now I've moved to 1.32 and it's significantly better. So far I can't convince myself moving farther back is worth the features/perf tradeoff but maybe I'll try 1.30 or 1.29 one of these days.

Anyway, hopefully paradox knows this is a priority. CK2 had perf issues for years and they got things running really smoothly before moving on from the game, so I have hope we'll see something like 1.29 perf again.

Maybe it is because I am on Mac on which 1.33 crashes constantly, but for me 1.32 was the best patch in general.

I remember even Florryworry doing his one sitting Three Mountains saying he did it on 1.32 because 1.32 is actually fun.

1.32 offers better performance, less crashing and you don't have to deal with allied AI going to sleep and the Arabian 3 dev provinces with level 3 forts.

Would stick with that personally.

 

[Iferius]

My seven and a half year old desktop runs the latest patch just fine...

 

[Zaddy]

My seven and a half year old desktop runs the latest patch just fine...

Respectfully, you probably have a much different definition of "just fine" then. I'm running on current gen mid-high range hardware and the performance is simply unbearable to me. That's because hardware is more or less irrelevant to the performance, except for very very old setups and ultra low end hardware.

If you revert to an older patch (like circa 2016 or 2017) it would be like night and day performance-wise.

 

[MatthewP]

Respectfully, you probably have a much different definition of "just fine" then. I'm running on current gen mid-high range hardware and the performance is simply unbearable to me. That's because hardware is more or less irrelevant to the performance, except for very very old setups and ultra low end hardware.

If you revert to an older patch (like circa 2016 or 2017) it would be like night and day performance-wise.

Everyone has a different threshold for sure. But IDK about the idea of hardware not mattering. I switched from a laptop that was 6 years old to a new low-end gaming laptop somewhere between one and two years ago and the game went from just above my threshold of "ok" to blazing fast. Of course, then a few more patches and it's back where it started . And I've gotten spoiled so now it doesn't even feel ok anymore.

 

[vaLor-]

I like the AI/balance changes on the new patch. But they (or maybe some other change) seem to have hurt performance quite a bit. I'm especially seeing this on a CK3 converted save which has larger nations (more like the late game I guess). For me, the improvements aren't worth having the game crawl along.

So, does anyone remember what the most recent patch with decent perf was so I can roll back until Paradox fixes this? I'd rather not go pre-Leviathan if possible, and I know I've played games since without issues so it should be.

I'm not sure what your bottleneck on your system is/was, but a friend I used to play with a few years back played on a potato and so I helped him try out a bunch of mods focusing on performance. The best I've seen/used is Fast Universalis if you'd like to give it a try, assuming it's still updated.