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Hey, so I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I tried turning every setting to as low as it will possibly go, and I still get to a point where the game is unplayable. Specifically, when a crusade was launched, the game gets super laggy and choppy, you cant pan the camera even remotely smoothly, and clicking play you can see the game struggle to progress day to day.

I mentioned in another thread, but wanted to follow up. I have a 2017 MacBook Pro. And I have an AMD (4GB) graphics card. I thought my machine met all of the minimum specs to play this game, but am I wrong, or is there a bug currently? I’m just curious if I need to seriously consider getting a new computer to play this game, or if there is something on Paradox’s end that might change to make this game playable on my current computer?

Thanks
 
Let's have a look at your setup.


Please attach your Documents/Paradox/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/CK3/logs/ folder, attach 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.
 
AndrewT said:
Let's have a look at your setup.


Please attach your Documents/Paradox/CK3/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/CK3/logs/ folder, attach 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.
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I will post all of this when I get home this evening! But as an update, I broke down and installed boot camp on my MacBook Pro, and CKIII runs very well in windows, so it does seem like something must be off for the game in Mac OS. So I’ll post everything later, because I would like to see if this can get sorted out.

Thanks!
 
Had trouble saving as a .txt but here are the attachments and I copied everything and just put it in the message here... hopefully that works, but just let me know!

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MacBookPro14,3
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7920HQ CPU @ 3.10GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0x9
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3100 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Unsupported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Unsupported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
MacOS 10.15.6 (64 bit)

Video Card:
Driver: Intel HD Graphics 630
Driver Version: 1.2
OpenGL Version: 2.1
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 0 Hz
VendorID: 0x8086
DeviceID: 0x591b
Revision: 0x4
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 12.99" x 8.11" (15.31" diag)
33.0cm x 20.6cm (38.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 0 MB

Memory:
RAM: 16384 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 953903 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 659734 Mb
 

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Additionally, I changed some settings in the "Battery saving settings" in Mac OS to have the dedicated GPU set to always on, and then these were the settings I fund in the steam system help. For what its worth, I tried CKIII under these conditions and experienced the exact same issues as previously stated.

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MacBookPro14,3
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7920HQ CPU @ 3.10GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0x9
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3100 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Unsupported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Unsupported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
MacOS 10.15.6 (64 bit)

Video Card:
Driver: Radeon Pro 560
Driver Version: 1.2
OpenGL Version: 2.1
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 0 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x67ef
Revision: 0xc0
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 12.99" x 8.11" (15.31" diag)
33.0cm x 20.6cm (38.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 0 MB

Memory:
RAM: 16384 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 953903 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 659605 Mb
 
No real clue in there, I begin to suspect the Mac version simply needs better optimisation. This is mainly affected an existing game , is that right? A new campaign is okay to start with?
 
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AndrewT said:
No real clue in there, I begin to suspect the Mac version simply needs better optimisation. This is mainly affected an existing game , is that right? A new campaign is okay to start with?
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I actually haven’t tried starting a new game, so I might try that next. But it was choppy when I started this game, just got unplayably worse at the 1st crusade
 
revenfett said:
Out of curiosity, does this mean that Paradox working on further optimizing CKIII for Mac OS?
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I'm not in the dev loop for this game I'm afraid (working on it!). But with the serious issues we are seeing on Windows (game not starting, corrupted cloud save games), in all honesty I doubt this issue is top of the priority list just yet, I'm sorry.

I'm a Mac user myself so it won't be off the table while I'm in this job! Once things settle down here I hope to have time to engage the devs in this issue.
 
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AndrewT said:
I'm not in the dev loop for this game I'm afraid (working on it!). But with the serious issues we are seeing on Windows (game not starting, corrupted cloud save games), in all honesty I doubt this issue is top of the priority list just yet, I'm sorry.

I'm a Mac user myself so it won't be off the table while I'm in this job! Once things settle down here I hope to have time to engage the devs in this issue.
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Well I hope they make some progress on the Mac OS side of things. Thankfully, it is working in Bootcamp for me at the moment at least
 
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