Optimize the Game

[PsychoGeneral]

Dear Paradox,

Since the last update, my game has become increasingly more laggy. However, this has been a problem since the game's release. The last patch just increased the lags. I can not enjoy the game while it takes 5 minutes for me to zoom in and out. Please optimize the game a bit more, so that it also runs smoother on lower PC's. I am not even asking you to completely prevent lag, just make it possible to that I can play the game with a GeForce 1080ti and an Intel Core i7.

Best regards

[kgkong]

If you aren't already running this game on the highest graphic settings at 1080p, give it a try to take the FPS load off of the CPU, and cap at 30 or 60 fps. It should help improve performance some.

And an i7 is a tier of CPU, not really useful on how powerful it actually is. Old i7s aren't very good compared to newer i3 and i5.

As well, disable your iGPU on your Intel processor. That's ruthless on reducing performance while it's enabled on the CPU in the BIOS because it's limiting the CPU from operating at it's best performance.

[nikdonikde]

I had some issues too but capping to 60 FPS and turning off Vsync improved my performance a lot. Also some nominal graphical feature which aren't much needed, can't decrease heat on your GPU.

[shiggies713]

well which i7 do you have? that can make a huge difference. Your system sounds very similar to mine, but I'll be honest my system is quite old, and going strong. You can find out by typing dxdiag in your windows search bar.

For reference, I have an i7 6700 (gen 6) 8 cores @ 3.4ghz, 1060ti 6gb and everything is on an ssd. I'm not joking I built this almost 10 years ago and haven't even opened the case since, i can barely believe it still runs new games perfectly fine lol. Anyways

Its possible your drivers are out of date, or even the opposite, if you recently updated them it maybe not optimized.

[Kimlin]

I just tried playing for the first time since 1.1 and it seems smoother for me. I only have an I5

[PsychoGeneral]

Meanwhile I am lagging my way to 1844 as Bavaria.

[PsychoGeneral]

Originally posted by shiggies713:

well which i7 do you have? that can make a huge difference. Your system sounds very similar to mine, but I'll be honest my system is quite old, and going strong. You can find out by typing dxdiag in your windows search bar.

For reference, I have an i7 6700 (gen 6) 8 cores @ 3.4ghz, 1060ti 6gb and everything is on an ssd. I'm not joking I built this almost 10 years ago and haven't even opened the case since, i can barely believe it still runs new games perfectly fine lol. Anyways

Its possible your drivers are out of date, or even the opposite, if you recently updated them it maybe not optimized.

I have an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU. I accidentaly switched up some numbers, turns out I only have a GeForce 1050ti. Still, I already turned on the lowest graphics, turned off VSync, etc. I cleared up storage, nothing is running in the background except Vicky 3 and still the game isn't running very smooth. Zooming in takes like 20 seconds to load and when I close the game the whole system just wants to kermit suicide.

[kgkong]

Originally posted by PsyshoGeneral:

Originally posted by shiggies713:

well which i7 do you have? that can make a huge difference. Your system sounds very similar to mine, but I'll be honest my system is quite old, and going strong. You can find out by typing dxdiag in your windows search bar.

For reference, I have an i7 6700 (gen 6) 8 cores @ 3.4ghz, 1060ti 6gb and everything is on an ssd. I'm not joking I built this almost 10 years ago and haven't even opened the case since, i can barely believe it still runs new games perfectly fine lol. Anyways

Its possible your drivers are out of date, or even the opposite, if you recently updated them it maybe not optimized.

I have an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU. I accidentaly switched up some numbers, turns out I only have a GeForce 1050ti. Still, I already turned on the lowest graphics, turned off VSync, etc. I cleared up storage, nothing is running in the background except Vicky 3 and still the game isn't running very smooth. Zooming in takes like 20 seconds to load and when I close the game the whole system just wants to kermit suicide.

Don't crank the graphics down, crank them up. Disable vSync and set 30 or 60 fps frame cap.

The lower you set your graphic settings, the higher the FPS your GPU spits out, which puts more workload on the CPU in the end.

I've seen a lot of problems with the 8750H for stability problems with this game and it's usually because the iGPU is enabled and users are setting graphic settings to low and trying to pump out higher FPS to fix the performance issue. But it's not a graphic bottleneck causing the problem. It's a CPU bottleneck caused by under performing the GPU and the iGPU clogging up the CPU specs. And the laptop isn't set to use performance mode, it's set on power save mode.

[CIL7CIPRIAN]

are you sure that you are running your game on your gpu and not cpu ?

[WhyBorne]

You have a GPU from 2016 and a CPU from 2018. That is very outdated...5 and 7 years old. Isn't it reasonable to expect a 5+ year old rig to have problems with newer games?