What settings should I play for the best FPS in Hoi4?

[Lotren]

My processor is "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.8GHz"
My graphics card is "NVIDIA GeForce MX110"
My memory is 12GB
What settings should I play for the best FPS in Hoi4?

[Maya-Neko]

Define "best". If you want to have as high FPS as possible, then obviously set everything to the minimum. If you want it to look nice, then put it as high as possible and if it lags, reduce it until it doesn't lag anymore. 30 or 60 FPS is usually enough for this type of game, as there's not that much that moves fast and would benefit from higher FPS anyway.

As for what you need to switch off, that mostly depends on what stuff you like. I for example don't really need shadows and water quality in many cases, so that's what i switch off first and i try to keep AA and vsync on if possible.

Though overall this game isn't really that demanding graphics-wise, so just test a few things and see what works.

[Drunk Demoman]

Hoi4 is an extremely CPU intensive game compared to how much your GPU will be used, and that low clock speed is gonna make you hurt for performance once the game starts packing in more units, factories, etc. even very early in the game.

Though the game doesn't use your GPU nearly as much, you have nearly equivalent performance to a Radeon 4870, and the minimum that they say you need for HOI4 is a 5850 that clocks in an average 50% faster (quick google search on the performance difference). So even with the game heavily CPU dependent, you don't meet the GPU requirements anyhow.

Can you play hoi4? Probably, it'll at least boot up is my guess. Will it be a good experience? Probably not, the game speed will run at a snails pace and your frame-rate will be a literal slideshow from the specs I see.

[Lotren]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Define "best". If you want to have as high FPS as possible, then obviously set everything to the minimum. If you want it to look nice, then put it as high as possible and if it lags, reduce it until it doesn't lag anymore. 30 or 60 FPS is usually enough for this type of game, as there's not that much that moves fast and would benefit from higher FPS anyway.

As for what you need to switch off, that mostly depends on what stuff you like. I for example don't really need shadows and water quality in many cases, so that's what i switch off first and i try to keep AA and vsync on if possible.

Though overall this game isn't really that demanding graphics-wise, so just test a few things and see what works.

I did some settings. I didn't know what to do with VSync and Renderer for the highest FPS, I also chose DX11 for the renderer, but I'm not sure if I did the right thing for the highest FPS value.

I did "Mode" to "Full Screen", "Multisample Level" to "0", "Texture Quality" to "Low", turned off "Cities, 3D Trees, Shadows, 3D Buildings, Reflections, High quality pixel shaders", I left on "Rivers, Weather, 3D Units (I don't know if it really matters that much), Full rendering resolution"

I get about 60 FPS at these settings and I'm in 1936. Is there a setting you suggest I change to get higher FPS? Finally, there is a major problem that the game loads very late.