FPS at 5x speed drop

[PragerU Propaganda]

My FPS would always drop to ~30 FPS whenever I would increase the time to 5x speed. I would always get frames above 60 FPS whenever I set the time speed to 4x, regardless if I had potato graphic settings and or ultra graphics settings. Anyone know how to fix?

My PC specs are:
GTX 1070 8GB
i7-6700K CPU
32GB 3200mz RAM

[Rax Savvage]

no one cares
its the game it has to actually process things

thats not fps

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Naturally ...

This more or less happens to everyone, the average going rate for FPS here is around ~30, once the war gets going. There are 2 reasons for this.

1- This game has ALOT going on in it behind the scenes.
2 - The engine the game runs on is old as hell and is now poorly optimised to run the game.

Having a '♥♥♥♥ hot' CPU can get you better results but the simple fact is, in game calculations take time, if you force your PC to make those calculations faster ... and it can't do it, you'll get an FPS drop ... so don't force it to make those calculations faster. The 6700 is a fine CPU but it's not going to ACE HoI4.

The GPU is completely irrelevant (I don't even use one)
RAM is important ... but it does not account for the 'shortcomings' of the CPU.
Having an SSD is preferable to a HDD ... but again, it's slaved to the CPU performance.

So what can you do about it aside from buying better hardware (which I don't recommend cause it's the games fault, not yours)? well in contrast to what I just said, yes lowering graphical settings does help a tiny bit, like 1-2 ... it's something. Making sure few programs are running in the back ground to steal CPU usage too is handy.

But outside of that? not much.

You can opt to invade and annex as many countries as possible to prevent them from contributing to unit spam and other in game calculations ... killing Russia absolutely does help, same can be said for China, the UK and the US, but that is not really very practical.

No the best thing you can do right now, is go to the mod workshop and download one of the mods which prevents countries such as Tibet and Cuba from doing 'anything'.

[PragerU Propaganda]

Well, what is strange for me (I probably should've mentioned from the start) is that FPS ~30 at 5x speed even from the 1936 starting date. I even tried overclocking both my GPU & CPU to greater speeds but only noticed a 1 frame improvement from the usual 28 frames.