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you can even find the difference within the screenshots i provided within the mod description (viking vs english and swedish vs swedish). so if you played as bjorn you will start with viking culture and have viking army looks. if you form sweden army gfx looks don't automatically change because the army look is not linked to the nation you play but rather the culture your nation has. if you change your culture then you will get different looks. i hope this does make it clear :)

@WearyTheDreary
first of all i am happy if you like Battle Graphics mod!
regarding your question: BG mod does two things compared to vanilla (=no mods) CK3. first BG mod does replace single unit graphics with small armies. secondly BG mod does add additional graphical army variety => so f.e. with vanilla CK3 you will see the same western army unit gfx for english, french, holy roman, etc. cultures. with BG mod you will see custom different looking english, french, holy roman, etc. armies. since BG mod did add more graphic variety, there is a difference between swedish army looks (armies with horses) and viking armies (armies without horses).

This mod is really cool but im confused as to what determines how the armies looked, on image 7 you showed the swedish army with horses but when i played as bjorn and formed sweden he didnt have any horses?

@AndrewDeMethill
ah alright. i have to admit i am surprised about your results after comparing your hardware setup to my own, because your CPU is better than mine and your GPU seems decent. i mean my GPU is superior to your 7800xt but on the other hand my GPU usage even during extreme stress tests with BG mod + CK3 and with several hundred years into the game does not exceed 65 % last time i checked and i am using an ultrawide monitor, which is also more demanding when it comes to GPU than other monitors. so i would have plenty of room to go with my own hardware setup. but i have to admit i am using a high-end GPU. anyways, i guess in your case and if you already also tried to use BG ZSM with BG mod then i am afraid i can't help you for now. maybe i can add even more performance improvements in the future that might help you or you will be able to better enjoy BG mod once you upgrade your hardware setup at some point in time in the future. anyways thanks for sharing your information!

@Ajey Had all the BG mods + compath patches on

@AndrewDeMethill
thanks for sharing your results. seems like your specific hardware setup can't handle BG mod very well. like i said before performance impacts differ amongst BG mod users. some BG mod users like myself don't experience any negative performance impact. others like you seem to see an impact. if you are one of those that see a negative impact, then it's simple to turn BG mod off without causing any issues on your save-game :)
PS: what you could try to do is add BG ZSM mod to your playlist since this mod seems to have helped some mod users that struggled with performance when using BG.

Just tested this mod with this modpack https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3493464410 , after 100 years the games halts to a crawl.After i removed the mod ive gained 10x the speed in TPS and FPS is no longer 20. Im sitting at 60 fps at max speed.
Specs are: CPU - 9800x3D(OC), GPU- 7800xt with 32 GB RAM

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by the way actual FPS (frames per second) have also been unchanged for me when using BG mod compared to not using it. the good thing about BG mod is you can simply try it out. BG mod can be turned on and off during save-games. so if you try it out and you think you prefer to turn if off later on for whatever reasons, that's usually not a problem at all. last but not least i want to mention that some people told me they experienced better performance when using the BG ZSM submod (probably because scaling has a positive performance impact but that's just a guess) => so you could try that too or not. it's up to you. i hope this did help :)

@Chinin
when i made performance tests BG did not have any significant impact on performance at all. i received several reports indicating the same i.e. no performance impact at all. but frankly i also received some reports that some people claimed they experience worse performance when using BG mod. in the end it's going to depend on your individual hardware setup. during my most recent performence tests BG did not cause much more load on my GPU and CPU compared to CK3 without BG. the only thing that this mod did indeed make more use of for me is some RAM and memory but that's usually not having an impact on performance, since it's only the amount of data that is going to be loaded into the temporary storage areas. even though i add more and more graphic content over time into this mod, i am also regularly adding performance optimizations.

quick question how is Performance in this mod? i remember the OG being very heavy on GPUs