EU 4 runs slow on steam

[meletis]

Hello
I face a problem with eu4 on steam. The game runs quite slow and in game a game month takes around 15-20 seconds when i am at 1444
I also tried the game in epic store and a game month took only 6 seconds
Can someone help me with this problem?

Thank you for your time

 

[AndrewT]

The game ought to be the same regardless of where you get it from of course. But could it be you have many DLCs on Steam and non on Epic? That could have an effect.

Either way, has it always been like this for you? Or it was okay up to some point?

 

[meletis]

Hello
I own 6 DLC on Steam and i was planning to buy the 1 month subscrition. In Epic i do not own any DLC
But i always had this problem. Is there a possibility that something is wrong with steam?

 

[AndrewT]

It's not impossible, but it's not at all a known issue. What if you exit Steam and run eu4.exe from the Steam-eu4 folder manually, is it the same?

 

[meletis]

I tried what you wrote to me and the game is running very faster that before. It takes about 8-9 seconds for a game month

 

[meletis]

i also tried this on hoi4 and i had no lag in game but i could not play with dlc enabled

 

[AndrewT]

I guess we can try a clean reinstall of game and Steam then.

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-EU4
- exit the Steam app entirely

- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4 folders
- delete everything in the Steam folder eXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that

- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

 

[meletis]

sorry for the delay
i tried everything you wrote to me but the game runs slow without any difference

 

[AndrewT]

When you run eu4.exe by itself, do you find that no DLCs are active? If so that might account for the speed difference.


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