perfomance issue

[BlackIronHero]

I apologize in advance for my English, it is not my first language.

since the dlc paragon, my game performance dropped practically to the floor, before the dlc i could play the game on high while listening to a posdcast without problems (except late game for obvious reasons), now to be able to play i put all graphics on low, install at least 5 mods to improve performance and close any program that can use memory, despite that I can only play at least 10-6 in the game years before the fps and mini-freeze force me to close the game, I wrote to support, but the solution they gave me didn't work, so they decided to send me here to identify the problem with my game.
the problem persist with and without mods
the spec of my laptop:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz
8,00 GB (7,65 GB usable)

 

[AndrewT]

We can't help with modded games here - is that save modded or unmodded?

And did you attach it because it shows the problem whereas others do not? Or you get this in every galaxy you play?

 

[BlackIronHero]

that's a modded game, that's because it's the only playthrough I did after the dlc, but the problem persists even in the unmodden game, I'm going to put the unmodded one
that's save it's without mods, in lows graphics in an small galaxy, with a few empire, but the moment i start to play, it start to freeze and lags the laptop

 

[AndrewT]

That save runs perfectly fine for me!


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

- move any valued save games elsewhere, and user empire designs.txt from /Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/ if you have made any custom empires or races.
- "uninstall" in Steam-Stellaris
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Stellaris AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add stellaris.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 you need to make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris 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/Stellaris/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Stellaris/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log .

 

[BlackIronHero]

it's the second time that i try that option, this time also didn't work, not using mods only make the problem less annoying

 

[AndrewT]

That error .log looks like there were still mods in use! Are you sure there were no files or folders left under either the Steam Stellaris or Documents Stellaris locations, before installing again?

And you disabled ALL Mods in the launcher before starting this galaxy?


Your Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics is above the minimum requirement, but below the recommended ones, as it has almost no VRam of its own (it borrows it from the system memory).

Display Memory: 4045 MB
Dedicated Memory: 128 MB
Shared Memory: 3917 MB

Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 7834MB RAM
Page File: 13216MB used, 2723MB available

Something is using a LOT of your memory and paging file! Try unloading every other app you can before starting this game.


And finally, Right click on stellaris.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate to refresh rate 60.


Does any of that help?