Gaming Lag, Have no Idea WHY!!! Any help???

[Diachie]

Hey Guys, I have recently been playing games like Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4, and for some reason they lag and are very choppy to the point that I get frustrated and cant play. My laptop is about 3 years old now, here are my specs:


i7-3610QM Quad core 2.30GHz
8GB DDR3 Ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M - 2GB DDR5
320GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD3200BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

I was thinking that it could be the harddrive that slowing it down or simple due to bad game optimisation,plus I have the latest nvidia drivers.

Any advice PLEASE?

[Tarn]

It's not your fault its Paradox bad optimization after adding new provinces. They proud to add 900 new province to EU4. But they just fail to quality as usual..

[Mormacil]

When does it sloow down? I only get a slowdown once every 6 ingame months for the autosave. Running it at a
i7 Quadcore @ 2.2GHz
8GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce GT 630M
1920x1080
And I get pretty decent framerate...

[Evil Crusader]

If you have to face a very big blob with tons of small armies, then the game suffers (try having a very big empire and facing a revolt to see what I mean).
My config is slightly worse than yours (better processor but worse GPU, something that believe or not makes a difference because CK2 uses the GPU for fast calculations), and it goes without a hitch save for the obligatory autosave lag while Iron-manning.

[Diachie]

No its weird I tested both CK2 and EU4, for CK2 (for CK2 I loaded an old save playing as a large castille, but I started a new EU4 game as Tuscany)

when the game is paused:
FPS = 60
GPU = 50%
CPU = 10%
but then as I increase the game speed, the fps and GPU usage drop significantly
3 speed:
FPS = 30 to 40
CPU = 15%
GPU = around 40% with some 60% spikes
at this point the game map scrolling becomes very choppy
Full speed:
FPS = 15
CPU = 25%
GPU = 21%
at this point the lag is a bit annoying. Why does the GPU usage drop so much at high speed? I mean it never goes above 60 degrees and the same sort of thing happens with EU4, I might just be stupid, but I dont think thats suppose to happen.....