Refresh rate

[Reich Loyalist]

So I can't set refresh rate to the 144hz that I want, everytime I do and reload game for settings to take effect, the game has auto adjusted it back to 50hz. If I change resolution to windowed(fullscreen), it does stay the same. However, I don't want windowed fullscreen. Any ideas how to fix this?

[grotaclas]

AFAIK the refresh rate setting in eu4 has been broken for some time and windowed fullscreen(aka borderless fullscreen) is the only way out, because it uses the refresh rate setting of your OS

[Reich Loyalist]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

AFAIK the refresh rate setting in eu4 has been broken for some time and windowed fullscreen(aka borderless fullscreen) is the only way out, because it uses the refresh rate setting of your OS

Well, that sucks. How can I adjust settings to increase abysmal framerate that I have? I have good hardware, but I think it's some settings or compatibility issues. What settings are significant in EU4?

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by PanzerGrenadier:

Well, that sucks. How can I adjust settings to increase abysmal framerate that I have? I have good hardware, but I think it's some settings or compatibility issues. What settings are significant in EU4?

What framerate do you have while the game is paused? And is it the same in fullscreen and borderless fullscreen? There seem to be very different expectation for how high a framerate should be.

Was the low framerate the reason that you wanted a higher refresh rate in the first place? The only impact that the refresh rate has on the framerate is that you can't make use of a framerate which is higher than the refresh rate.

[Reich Loyalist]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Originally posted by PanzerGrenadier:

Well, that sucks. How can I adjust settings to increase abysmal framerate that I have? I have good hardware, but I think it's some settings or compatibility issues. What settings are significant in EU4?

What framerate do you have while the game is paused? And is it the same in fullscreen and borderless fullscreen? There seem to be very different expectation for how high a framerate should be.

Was the low framerate the reason that you wanted a higher refresh rate in the first place? The only impact that the refresh rate has on the framerate is that you can't make use of a framerate which is higher than the refresh rate.

No, I was hoping correcting the settings that keep it at the 50hz refresh rate would also help the low framerate. I really didn't know if it was an application setting or if Radeon App could define in game settings by default. I haven't had a radeon card since the last one I had 20 years ago, which was 128mb.

[Reich Loyalist]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Originally posted by PanzerGrenadier:

Well, that sucks. How can I adjust settings to increase abysmal framerate that I have? I have good hardware, but I think it's some settings or compatibility issues. What settings are significant in EU4?

What framerate do you have while the game is paused? And is it the same in fullscreen and borderless fullscreen? There seem to be very different expectation for how high a framerate should be.

Ok so, if I am zoomed in on one province while paused, it's at 60. If I zoom out to view the entire map, it is at about 42. I wanted it to be a little higher than that to get the most quality out of my rig. If I remember correctly, when I had my gtx970 in, I was getting better numbers and I wish I knew why.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by PanzerGrenadier:

Ok so, if I am zoomed in on one province while paused, it's at 60. If I zoom out to view the entire map, it is at about 42. I wanted it to be a little higher than that to get the most quality out of my rig. If I remember correctly, when I had my gtx970 in, I was getting better numbers and I wish I knew why.

From what I heard, this kind of problem is common with good systems. I don't know if anybody bothered to investigate this, because it doesn't really matter. Eu4 doesn't have any moving parts for which it makes a difference if you have 10 FPS or 100 FPS.
You can probably get a higher FPS if you reduce all graphics setting to their minimum and use a mod like fast universalis. But I don't think that it is worth it to reduce the quality for more FPS.

Were the higher FPS with your gtx970 with the same eu4 version? If not, you can try the version which you were playing with that card and see if you get more FPS with that version. It might be that newer versions are worse.

One thing you could try is to dismiss all notifications. In the past it has happened that some notifications were recalculated with every frame(e.g. that you can make new states). The worst cases have been fixed in some way, but maybe some of the notifications still have an impact

[Reich Loyalist]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

Originally posted by PanzerGrenadier:

Ok so, if I am zoomed in on one province while paused, it's at 60. If I zoom out to view the entire map, it is at about 42. I wanted it to be a little higher than that to get the most quality out of my rig. If I remember correctly, when I had my gtx970 in, I was getting better numbers and I wish I knew why.

From what I heard, this kind of problem is common with good systems. I don't know if anybody bothered to investigate this, because it doesn't really matter. Eu4 doesn't have any moving parts for which it makes a difference if you have 10 FPS or 100 FPS.
You can probably get a higher FPS if you reduce all graphics setting to their minimum and use a mod like fast universalis. But I don't think that it is worth it to reduce the quality for more FPS.

Were the higher FPS with your gtx970 with the same eu4 version? If not, you can try the version which you were playing with that card and see if you get more FPS with that version. It might be that newer versions are worse.

One thing you could try is to dismiss all notifications. In the past it has happened that some notifications were recalculated with every frame(e.g. that you can make new states). The worst cases have been fixed in some way, but maybe some of the notifications still have an impact

I don't think it is worth it to reduce quality either. The FPS I have currently is fine, lately I have just been trying to optimize everything for efficient, pretty visuals of the highest quality. Yeah the GTX970 was most recently used on 1.31.

In any case, thank you for taking the time to reply.