Awful stuttering?

[Cardboard]

No idea whats happened but the game was running fine a few months ago then i stopped playing cant remember why but decided to play again today with some conquest but the game takes a good 7 minutes to load then when it finally gets in the stutter is so bad if i press my window key it takes a fat 20 seconds to show up. Is this a common issue and whats causing it and what fixes are there?

[Cardboard]

Is like this with and without mods.

[Gary Jasper]

yeah same for me mate. glad it's not just me having this problem. i can't play the game no more and this was my fav game to play at the moment

[Cardboard]

Originally posted by Gary Jasper:

yeah same for me mate. glad it's not just me having this problem. i can't play the game no more and this was my fav game to play at the moment

fr i had a look through threads and discussions and from what i can tell everyone else is having the issue and it all started after the USA dlc.

[Gary Jasper]

Originally posted by Cardboard:

Originally posted by Gary Jasper:

yeah same for me mate. glad it's not just me having this problem. i can't play the game no more and this was my fav game to play at the moment

fr i had a look through threads and discussions and from what i can tell everyone else is having the issue and it all started after the USA dlc.

i go from having like 140fps to 1fps and back. hope they fix it and not let their fans of the game down

[Zoltan]

Same here.

[Saxhorn]

What CPU do you all have?

[meow7]

They massively increased graphical requirement with USA, they said that players need to lower graphical settings. It should look the same as before even on lower setting.

[had to censor my name again.]

Originally posted by meow7:

They massively increased graphical requirement with USA, they said that players need to lower graphical settings. It should look the same as before even on lower setting.

it's unfortunately not as simple as that

[Ch53dVet]

Do you have "Vertical Sync" enabled? It prevents your fps from going from one extreme to the other, Plus, having your resolution capped at your windows desktop won't hurt either.

[TheOrangeBox]

still the game has considerable worst stuttering since Liberation patch, they need to optimise the game better.

[had to censor my name again.]

Liberation is not the only culprit for that, but it was pretty massive yes

[TheOrangeBox]

Originally posted by had to censor my name again.:

Liberation is not the only culprit for that, but it was pretty massive yes

More reasons to look into it and resolve the stuttering.

[Saxhorn]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/400750/discussions/0/4140563711254069823/

That thread there become a defacto discussion on performance and I made a created a large post in there about what I've noticed on my ancient old computer.

Bottom line the Liberation maps are far more detailed (more 'junk' all over the map looks pretty) and have destructible buildings. That costs performance and the engine is never going to be overhauled to the level the players expect it to be.

[had to censor my name again.]

Originally posted by TheOrangeBox:

Originally posted by had to censor my name again.:

Liberation is not the only culprit for that, but it was pretty massive yes

More reasons to look into it and resolve the stuttering.

I don't think it will ever get significantly better, maps in the coming DLC won't have less details than Liberation maps, and adding more units will 100% clutter up the RAM and VRAM even more.
the devs seem to really want to add more stuff to this old engine, without much concern for how it may impact performance for their players, which is sad

[Sgt.Chimp]

There's definitely been a drop in performance, i think it started after an update in July?
I don't think it has too much to do with extra details on the maps from the liberation DLC ect, but from a change done to the AI which really shows in skirmish mode.

prior to this i felt the game was performing better than it ever has with what could be thrown at at.
I've rather put the game down since and hoping if its is just an AI optimisation issue,
that will be tuned upon the release of the new DLC.

fingers crossed that's it anyway.