Game freeze when drawing fields

[Frodo Swaggins]

Does anyone else experience a HUGE drop (1 frame per 10 seconds) in framerate as soon as I enable the tool and have found a workaround? It doesn't happen with other tracing tool, only with yellow zones.
Restarting the game doesn't help.

[Alix Selkie]

I often get that specifically with wheat fields. It's very annoying. If I switch over to another tool, it goes back to normal, but as soon as I try drawing the wheat field again, it slows way down.

[seraphim_at]

same issue here, wheat field, vegetable field, probably others too

[OnlyKarlos]

I've not only encountered this issue, but found out what caused it by sheer luck once. What happens, to my understanding, is that the game tries to render a 'fertility overlay' over the entire map (maybe all at once?), causing the lag.
Try it on your end, the lag should start as soon as those red patches show up. I have about 2 seconds of no lag while zoning fields until a freeze, then I see the red areas around trees and know the performance is gone.

One rare occurance I had was that one time I didn't have any lag when zoning fields, and I couldn't figure out what caused it until I realized the fertility overlay somehow didn't load. This is likely to also be the reason why Wheat and Vegetable fields are affected, but no other zoning is - only they trigger the 'fertility overlay'.

If you could get it to not show up at all, you wouldn't have any lag - had this happen to me once, but haven't been able to replicate it consistently. I wish this was a higher priority to the devs because it's the sole reason why I can't get past the midgame: when you can't even zone a wheat field without massive frame drops, you can't really get bread, commoners , citizens, etc. :/