Mac plays very laggy, unplayable

[brreed1993]

Was really looking forward to this game, but it is way too laggy. I've tried the lowest settings with everything turned off. I even went into the setting.txt and edited it to not show sky or water, run in windowed, and lower resolution and it still lags. I think the problem is the clouds rolling in the fog of war and the animations on the flags/units. If paradox could release a patch to have lower graphics settings this would be great. Crusader Kings 2 worked just fine for my mac but EU4 won't.

[Mahkraz]

I have the same issue... CK2 works fine, but for EU4 it's impossible...

[Korppi]

I suspect it might be because of GPU memory need. I'm running a wooden 9600GT with just half a gig of memory... CK2 ran 10/10, but this lags some and GPU mem is 100% full all the time. How much GPU mem your mac has?

[bitcrusher]

Its says you need 1gig on mac.

[Badtaffy]

I am so bummed. I love EU3 and was really excited about this game. I agree with ChunKyz and brreed. I have 4GB of memory. CK2 plays just fine. But this is terrible. I turned off all of the visual settings, and it did nothing. Sooooo sad.

[A Keane Bean]

Does anybody know if the mac version has a launcher?

[bitcrusher]

Originally posted by badtaffy:

I am so bummed. I love EU3 and was really excited about this game. I agree with ChunKyz and brreed. I have 4GB of memory. CK2 plays just fine. But this is terrible. I turned off all of the visual settings, and it did nothing. Sooooo sad.

how much vram do you have? Game specifications say 1 gig. CK2 is an older engine and a different game.
"1024MB graphics memory required " if you didn't read the requirements you only have yourself to blame.

[Badtaffy]

@Bitcrusher - you are 100% right. I misread the requirements and I do not have 1G of vram. :( Unfortunately, I'm on an iMac and so I can't even upgrade the graphics card. Oh well.

If anyone has any tips on configuration settings for faster gameplay for those of us on older hardwear - I am sure you'd find a welcoming audience.

Thanks!

[donut]

Originally posted by badtaffy:

If anyone has any tips on configuration settings for faster gameplay for those of us on older hardwear - I am sure you'd find a welcoming audience.

Try disabling anti-aliasing, which is most likely to be a huge consumer of vram. If you're running a 27" iMac you probably run at 1440p, which itself will eat vram... you might consider trying 1080p in that case (if it's something visually acceptable).

I glanced at the graphics options in the demo but don't really remember what all was there. In addition to AA, I would just turn everything to minimum and see how it runs. If it's okay, then start ticking things up as far as performance allows.

[Creature]

Go to My Documents>Paradox Interactive>Europa Universalis IV>Then edit the settings.txt file so draw_terrain=no this will look weird and the land will be black but it reduces the lag by a lot.

[bitcrusher]

Check out my guide, just do the reverse of everything I say on it. It is on steam. Also the font mod is really awesome.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=169378628#-1

[Sohei]

It is possible to upgrade the graphics in many iMacs but it is not for the faint of heart and will void the warranty unless done by a certified Apple technician.