Lagging, grinding to a halt

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

Hi -

I am not the most technically savvy user. But I have the following stack:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz, 16GB 3200MHz Vengeance, 2TB Seagate Barracuda, 256GB Seagate BarraCuda 510 M.2, MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT MECH OC

I have a tonne of space left on both HDDs. The game is installed on the 2TB drive (D which has 1.6TB of storage remaining.

It starts to slow from the 1500s and as I get to 1650 it freezes for 30 - 60 seconds a time. Regardless of speed being run at.

Any ideas?

Thanks
John

 

[AndrewT]

Has this always happened on this machine since you've had this game? Or it was okay up to some point?

Any mods in use?

The similar game Crusader Kings 2 is free to play on Steam now - does it have a similar issue?

 

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

Has this always happened on this machine since you've had this game? Or it was okay up to some point?

Any mods in use?

The similar game Crusader Kings 2 is free to play on Steam now - does it have a similar issue?

No - it's only a fairly recent thing, although I'm struggling to recall precisely when

How would I know if I have any mods in use? (what are mods?)

I haven't played crusader kings to know. I can give it a go but I'm guessing I'd need to get seriously deep into the game to experience similar?

 

[AndrewT]

Mods are user-written changes or additions (modifications) to the game. You subscribe to them in the Steam Workshop for this game. If you don't know what they are, you won't have done that, presumably.

CK2 has seen similar issues, but generally only when a single empire controls a large part of the map and then a war or rebellion breaks out, so there are too many units on the map for the game to cope with.

I'm not aware of a precise parallel with EU4, but let me know if this only happens in a comparable situation here.


ALSO:
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/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

 

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

Mods are user-written changes or additions (modifications) to the game. You subscribe to them in the Steam Workshop for this game. If you don't know what they are, you won't have done that, presumably.

CK2 has seen similar issues, but generally only when a single empire controls a large part of the map and then a war or rebellion breaks out, so there are too many units on the map for the game to cope with.

I'm not aware of a precise parallel with EU4, but let me know if this only happens in a comparable situation here.


ALSO:
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/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

I have the subscription which enables all the DLCs - if that is what you mean? but other than that, I play the game as standard.

Have attached the files you ask for - and shall have a go on CK2 (sadly I don't have much spare time to dive into the game at the moment but will try my best)

Thanks for helping out

 

[AndrewT]

Mod and DLCs are unrelated entities. Mods are free and written by users, DLCs are paid and written by us.

Would you say this is happening in your campaign in the circumstances I described?

a single empire controls a large part of the map and then a war or rebellion breaks out, so there are too many units on the map for the game to cope with.

Or regardless of such matters?


Your AMD driver dates from 2019, I'm pretty sure there's a December 2022 one.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Can I get that settings.txt file too please.

 

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

Updating the driver as we speak, thanks for spotting that. Here is the settings file -

 

[AndrewT]

Edit that file to say vsync=no , and Right click on eu4.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.

If that and the driver update don't help, I'm not sure what is causing this to you!

 

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

OK

So - it made no difference whatsoever. However!.....


At the period in the game where this was a massive issue, I was in a war with Portugal against Spain (Caribas independence war). Spain were battering me and had occupied a tonne of my lands in France and it was 85% lost. It would run perfectly fine for 20 seconds and then freeze entirely for 2 minutes. Then judder to life again to repeat on and on... until the war ended!

Since the war ended, it has gone back to being normal and is running fine. Is that odd??

I had one other thought, I#m not sure how common a set up this is - but I have the game installed on my D: drive 2TB solid state but obviously all the program files are on the C: drive. Is that standard? Could it be a cause?

 

[grotaclas]

Since the war ended, it has gone back to being normal and is running fine. Is that odd??

Did you maybe have armies with autonomous sieging enabled? This can slow down the game by a lot in some big wars.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.

 

[Sir_RobinMansfield]

Did you maybe have armies with autonomous sieging enabled? This can slow down the game by a lot in some big wars.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people

Nope. Not turned on