Stuttering

[Khaz]

I haven't been able to find any answers to this issue.

The game starts to lag about 30-40 mins in, there's a physical stutter that grows. So on world map you see ships advance, stop, advance, stop, instead of a smooth movement. Along side this the UI begins to lag when buying/selling.

I can sort of get around it by restarting the game but that's not a good solution. I'm not sure whats causing it, so if anyone has any ideas? My PC is pretty powerful, and I've tried turning on and off some graphic settings as well as run in compatibility mode for Win7.

[Oakshield]

Only helpful solution I have found so far is reducing speed until you get to "0", then increase speed again.

Occasionally, speeding up to maximum speed may help as well.

Thorin :)

[BlueInstinct[brotherhood]]

In my Game, the ships stutter from the very begining, everything else runs smooth
I run win10 and a gforce 980 and an i5 2700K@4,6ghz with 16gig ram

The strange thing is, it ran absolutely smooth some years ago, but with the same rig.
I think i ran win7 ir 8.5 back than. I suspect that the issue comes from the Operating system. Unfortunately i have no ideo how to fix it..

[Dr.Denzel]

Yes i have the same problems.... its nearly unplayable. Is there a solution to fix this? I wanna play this game and enjoy it without the stuttering

[Troy-S]

Yes i have the same problems.... its nearly unplayable. Is there a solution to fix this?
And the same whit the mousecursor it's flickering too .?

[Dr.Denzel]

Originally posted by Troy-S:

And the same whit the mousecursor it's flickering too .?

Yes its flickering ... sadly

[Grzegor2005]

I have stutter when I enter a battle. Anyone had this problem before? I tried tweaking GPU options already.

[Norðtann]

upgrade of graphics driver worked for me

[Goffik]

Originally posted by erik22:

upgrade of graphics driver worked for me

I'm running a PC way more powerful than anything required by the game, and the latest graphics drivers, but I'm still getting this weird pause-move issue.

I don't even think it's graphical (at least in my case), because it's only the ships moving which is affected. They pause-move on both the map and in battles. Yet the clouds move perfectly smoothly across the screen, and the little people in towns walk around without pausing.

Interestingly, the Steam Special Edition doesn't seem affected, only Rise of a Dynasty does it on my end. Port Royal 3 runs fine too (same game engine) so I don't really get this issue. Restarting or changing game speeds does nothing to help in my case.

[partybär]

Try to reduce the polling rate of the mouse. Old game - low polling rate. Maybe that helps

[Waldleufer]

I am facing the same issue. For both versions.

The stuttering occurs exactly when moving the mouse. And only then. If you don't move the mouse everything is perfectly fine.

[Waldleufer]

I tried reducing the polling rate but it did not really have a noticable effect. So sad!

[asasin121]

Originally posted by Troy-S:

Yes i have the same problems.... its nearly unplayable. Is there a solution to fix this?
And the same whit the mousecursor it's flickering too .?

A bit late but this might help. I have found a flickering mouse bug similar to what is described. For me the only thing that fixes it is using a lower resolution monitor.

On my 1440p monitor --> bug
on my older 1080p monitor --> no bug

Hope this helps