Is it just me or is the game not optimized and very demanding?

[Me0wish]

The game runs very poorly on my laptop, its runs lower than 30 fps and when it gets chaotic its hardly playable. Lowering the settings doesn't help either unless I lower the resolution and even then it runs like crap.

Specs:
Windows 8
GTX 460M
i7 2630QM

I loved what I played, I hope the devs are still out there and plan on fixing the game.

[Dusklite]

No it's not just you. I've got a quad-core desktop with a GTX 650 and suffer from exactly the same problem.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Not just you two, either.

This is my rig and on low at 1080p it chugs at about 18fps when too much is happening on the screen. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xRyo

Ridiculous and then they have the gall to add in DLC when you can't even play it.

[Me0wish]

That sucks! the game is a lot of fun, I hope the devs will actually try to fix it instead of adding more dlc -.-. played beta games that run better! They should be ashamed!

[IvanCGray]

I love all of Paradoxical's games for their gameplay, content, and freshness- the problem is that ALL of their games run like ♥♥♥♥.

[Stychis]

Paradox was never really the best at actually making their games run great. The optimization is pretty awful.

[PersonalC0ffee]

If that last commenter is truthful then that sucks. I can't play a game at below 25 fps and it's ridiculous to ask me too.

[nekobliss]

Tried the game today; i7 with 6 Gb of ram and ATI HD5700.... the game runs at <20 fps on low settings. Uninstalled the game without even being able to finish the tutorial. They shouldn't be selling such unoptimized games.

[PersonalC0ffee]

nek♥|sorrow (｡◕‿‿◕｡) a écrit :

Tried the game today; i7 with 6 Gb of ram and ATI HD5700.... the game runs at <20 fps on low settings. Uninstalled the game without even being able to finish the tutorial. They shouldn't be selling such unoptimized games.

I agree! But what I don't get, is why it's so damn inconsistent. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

[Trot]

Change your res at start up and it works fine...
Either that or get better internet

[Dusklite]

Pachii a écrit :

Paradox was never really the best at actually making their games run great. The optimization is pretty awful.

To be fair, Paradox is the publisher. Critical Studios came up with the coding which makes some of us suffer these abysmal framerates. If anyone reading has had these problems, can offer a solution to this and would post it here, I'd be grateful.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Trot a écrit :

Change your res at start up and it works fine...
Either that or get better internet

Please stop acting like you know the solution to all of our issues.

1080p is standard and my rig can run it
I have a 40mb/s down connection

Your solution is useless.

This is a problem with the game, not our rigs.

[Me0wish]

qwerty557 a écrit :

Trot a écrit :

Change your res at start up and it works fine...
Either that or get better internet

Please stop acting like you know the solution to all of our issues.

1080p is standard and my rig can run it
I have a 40mb/s down connection

Your solution is useless.

This is a problem with the game, not our rigs.

Just ignore him, he doesn't deserve the attention.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Meowish a écrit :

qwerty557 a écrit :

Please stop acting like you know the solution to all of our issues.

1080p is standard and my rig can run it
I have a 40mb/s down connection

Your solution is useless.

This is a problem with the game, not our rigs.

Just ignore him, he doesn't deserve the attention.

Aye.

[Trot]

My cheap laptop runs this game perfectly fine. I don't have a fancy rig or any of that and none of my freinds have issues either. So don't act like I don't know what I'm talking about. Bump up the resolutions. At start I play on 1280x800 and my freinds play on 1600x900 just try the diffrent resolutions and the game runs fine.

[Dusklite]

Trot a écrit :

My cheap laptop runs this game perfectly fine. I don't have a fancy rig or any of that and none of my freinds have issues either. So don't act like I don't know what I'm talking about. Bump up the resolutions. At start I play on 1280x800 and my freinds play on 1600x900 just try the diffrent resolutions and the game runs fine.

It's true that if you have a 4:3 or 5:4 monitor you will have problems in DM Mode with the cards overlapping other elements of the UI... but honestly, I've tried a LOT of resolutions, fullscreen vs. windowed, a LOT of graphical settings and a LOT of AA/AF, VSync, Triple Buffer, Texture Filtering, Pre-Render Queue settings, fiddled around with CPU core affinity (long story short: same result like qwerty557) and probably a bunch of stuff I already forgot and they all did diddly squat to fix the issue. Interestingly enough, I have to play on 1280x800 like you because of the UI issues if I even want to play it like this. And the framerate is AWFUL.

If changing the resolution fixed any issues for you: congrats. But please don't act like that's the solution for everyone here and we are all idiots. Besides, read the OP - lowering resolution didn't help him either. Or not by much.

Now I'm not calling you a troll, but if you are really here to help, then bring something to the table instead of saying your "cheap laptop runs this game perfectly fine". We all are pretty much over recommended system requirements and as long as your laptop is as well, it should run the game well. Your system does, ours' do not... magic? Incompetence on our part? Terrorists? I don't think so.

TL;DR: You don't know what you are talking about. Not really, no.