Every ~2 months the game freezes for around 10 seconds, I have seen this in two games in 1.34 that I have been playing until ~1640 at which point the issue renders the game unplayable. It usually occurs on a random day of the month (not the month tick) and I can't see any particular action in the game that is causing it to stutter like this, i.e. no big wars, no huge battles, it sometimes occurs while the game is just running at speed 3, sometimes it happens after I click something but then I click it again and it doesn't freeze. I have verified the game files in steam as well as clean uninstalled the game and that has not resolved the issue. I play on mac if that is relevant and it has been able to handle post-revoke vassal swarm in the late game in previous patches just fine, no mods either. I have been really enjoying 1.34 so if there is a fix please help!
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same thing is happening in my game starting around 1600. like 2-3 seconds of stutter every 20 or so seconds. Playing on windows
This has only happened since 1.34 , are you saying?
If you revert to a 1.33.x patch in the Steam betas tab and test with a new campaign then, do you still get this behaviour?
Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .
Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.
I reverted back to 1.33.3 and loaded up the thirty years war bookmark and didn't encounter the issue after playing for a few years, during the clean uninstall I deleted my old saves. I also don't remember encountering this issue in previous patches
You are running the game in openGL mode, which is always slower than DirectX - can I ask why that is?
Please remove that launch option and let us know if that helps.
Please remove that launch option and let us know if that helps.
I don't know what those terms mean lol, if I go to EU4 on steam, right click EU4 and select properties and then general 'launch options' is empty. Is this what you are referring to? I looked at previous forum posts and tried entering -opengl as in the attched screenshot and the launcher wouldn't open
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Sorry, a brainfade on my part - the game always runs in openGL on MacOS.
However I see this Mac only has an Intel video system, which is probably contributing to the problem, minimum requirements are:
But why it is so much worse than the 1.33.x patches i do not know, I don't think that's the general experience. Have you tried reducing the game resolution and graphics quality settings?
However I see this Mac only has an Intel video system, which is probably contributing to the problem, minimum requirements are:
But why it is so much worse than the 1.33.x patches i do not know, I don't think that's the general experience. Have you tried reducing the game resolution and graphics quality settings?
Exact same thing is happening for me - have never had this issue before - seems to have come in with Sweden update
It is also happening to me! It freezes for a good 7 seconds and when it finally comes back, I see a few black smoke clouds rising up (maybe because of the animations catching up?). Playing as Russia on a windows machine using an Epic games copy. The version is also EU4 1.34.4.0 Sweden built on Oct 10 2022 11:50:04 git commit count 66899.
I've monitored the freezes for some time and I wrote some of them down here
22 March 1678
16 June 1678
and around 9-11 march 1679
I don't think I can downgrade the version in EGS. Can someone confirm?
Edit:
After maybe a decade the freezing started to shrink in time, seeming a lot like just an autosave until it stopped. Maybe it's just some event in the 1670s.
I've monitored the freezes for some time and I wrote some of them down here
22 March 1678
16 June 1678
and around 9-11 march 1679
I don't think I can downgrade the version in EGS. Can someone confirm?
Edit:
After maybe a decade the freezing started to shrink in time, seeming a lot like just an autosave until it stopped. Maybe it's just some event in the 1670s.
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