High CPU usage after 1.34 was installed

[Sedracus]

I'm getting a very slow playing experience with Lion of the North...
The CPU in particular seems to face high usage. I wouldn't have expected this with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor.

Note this is even while the game is paused for a long time, and as soon as I alt tab out of EU4 the CPU usage drops. As soon as I alt tab back in it's near 100% again.

 

[AndrewT]

Running the game on my i5-6600k CPU in windowed mode, I get 5-7% utilisation in the main game menu. Having chosen a nation I get ~15% at game start 1444, paused. Running that game in observe mode on speed 5 I see 40-50%.


Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK2
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK2 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK2 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add ck2game.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

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam CK2 or Documents CK2 locations, before installing again.



IF that doesn't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK2/settings.txt
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK2/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .