Lag to the point of unplayable

[Lordofdepression]

Hello! I'm a new player and I've been enjoying the game so far! i've played almost all the tutorial scenarios and some of the less complex scenarios. It's all going great.

But the thing is I tried buying some DLCs to spice things up (some LIVEs, Chains of War, Shifting Sands), but somehow I've noticed that there's a lag in the bigger scenarios. personally I don't mind a bit lag, though it is annoying but sometimes it slows down to a crawl where it's not even 1:1 anymore and the game goes unplayable. Sometime quitting and reloading the game solves it but not always.

I think the most problematic is trying to play King of The Border as USA, the game can't even run from the beginning. It just crawl and lags, below 1:1 to the point that it is unplayable.

Thing is I don't understand why it's happening, I've tried turning off all emissions, turning off all options in game speed, it still lags. The Russian side however has no problem whatsoever, it lags a bit but not to the point of a slow crawl. (I haven't tried running it properly tho, maybe it will crawl if it encounters contacts)

It's really a wonderful game and I don't regret buying it, I wish to support the devs further by paying for all the DLCs but as of now I can't justify myself because of the fear that I simply can't play it.

My specs is

Intel i7-8750H 2.20 GHz
16gb RAM
GTX 1060

I'm using SSD for storage

Thank you in advance! I really love the game by the way

[desrtfox071]

Your CPU is a laptop class CPU. Could it be that your laptop is throttling performance as part of a battery management setting?

[Lordofdepression]

It doesn't do that if it's plugged in though!

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Lordofdepression:

It doesn't do that if it's plugged in though!

Yes, that is if the settings are correct in the power management settings.

[Lordofdepression]

It is already correct, otherwise I couldn't play other demanding games.

Also I've been doing testings, the lag only occurs if I'm playing as the US in King of The Border. Russia works normally, I tried using the editor and Venezuela also works normally. Even playing as Colombia which has LOS to all US platforms due to them being friendlies, doesn't have any lag at all. Only when I switch to US the game slow down to a halt.

I've noticed the same problem playing Armed Diplomacy scenario, US lags whenever I tried to access some of their Air operations. I'm convinced the cause of the lag is somehow tied to fetching some data in their Airports or Carriers or something (I'm not a dev, I can only speak of what I'm experiencing)

[Bernie]

Try creating this shortcut and launching from it.
steam://open/minigameslist
Also try going into Steam-Settings-Library and put steam into Low Performance mode and Disable community content.
Doing this sped up Command alot for me, I think the new library system has some hooks that are affecting things. hope it helps.

[michael.worrall1975]

I have the same problem - playing as US king of the border it takes 3 or 4 seconds for every second of gameplay. I have an I7-4790K @ 4.00GHZ 16GB RAM and 1660 6GB Graphics. Yet its unplayable. Any idea?

[Headset]

There is a known bug with the US Side in the Scenario. See Official Forum. Author will Fix it.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4717576

[michael.worrall1975]

Thanks @headset

[Headset]

Glad i could Help @michael.worrall1975.

I saw there is a Patch. You can Download before Release on Steam.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4722659

[Gerbilskij]

In my case I am experiencing similar issues to the original poster with CoW Blue Down scenario (campaign mode).

My system specs are the following, so it should not be much of a hardware issue:

Win 10 pro 1903
i7-9700K 3.6 GHz
32GB Ram DDR5
HD 7200 4tb (dedicated Steam HD, OS is on a evo SSD)

[Dimitris]

Originally posted by Gerbilskij:

In my case I am experiencing similar issues to the original poster with CoW Blue Down scenario (campaign mode).

My system specs are the following, so it should not be much of a hardware issue:

Win 10 pro 1903
i7-9700K 3.6 GHz
32GB Ram DDR5
HD 7200 4tb (dedicated Steam HD, OS is on a evo SSD)

Hi, can you please post a save from that situation where you are observing a slowdown? There is always the chance that there is a situation-specific bottleneck that we have yet to run into. Thanks!

[Gerbilskij]

Thank you for your reply! Shortly after I wrote the comment I deleted all my saves and restarted the senery; now I'm still in the initial phase, but I will promptly do it if/when the situation occurs again.

PS If I recall correctly it begun when intense artillery fire from both sides started, but didn't ease up when the batteries were destroyed.