Performance Issues

[aurelio92]

Recently I played my first long campaign. And by long, I mean that my normal runs are around 100-150 years, while this is almost a 1066-1453 one. After 300 years or so, I noticed the game was noticeably slowed down. It was by no means unplayable, but if you get around 15% threat every time you conquer a county and you have no administrative business to attend to, being able to speed up through years is quite useful. When, bored, I tried the Warhammer mod, things got even worst: I started with a very slow gameplay since the very first day.
Here is my PC build:

• Motherboard: Asus 1150 H81-Plus;
• Processor: Intel i5-4570;
• Ram: 4 gb HyperX;
• Graphic card: Nvidia GTX 750TI (Asus);
• OS: Windows 7;

All in all, it is still a good PC for gaming, except for those 4 gb ram, even more because it is only one ram bench (AFAIK, ram works better with more, even if smaller, benches).

So I want to know if the slow down is normal or if a good enough PC can survive the increasing amount of characters and records piling up. And if the latter is true, are there any ways to improve performances (like the tree rendering one)? Moreover, buying an other 4 gb bench will make any noticeable difference (I plan to buy a whole new PC prob next year, so don't want to spend too much money on this)?

PS: sorry if I'm bad at english, it's not my native language.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

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All in all, it is still a good PC for gaming, except for those 4 gb ram, even more because it is only one ram bench (AFAIK, ram works better with more, even if smaller, benches).

So I want to know if the slow down is normal or if a good enough PC can survive the increasing amount of characters and records piling up. And if the latter is true, are there any ways to improve performances (like the tree rendering one)? ........

Disclaimer: i'm not tech support. Just another forum member.

1) 8GB Ram is highly recommended and helps, yes.
2) Yes it slows down over time either way, especially if your own realm gets bigger and bigger.
3) Mods like Warhammer make this usually worse.
4) Using a flat-water or flat-map mod (also on the Workshop) or turning draw_water in settings.txt to off ("no") could help.
Turning off trees used to help, indeed.

I would recommend to get more RAM instead of tweaking the settings.txt or having to use a mod for this.
Apart from the 4 GB RAM your system looks as if it should have no trouble with the game.
If you can make use of DDR4 RAM, then i recommend to get that instead of DDR3 RAM.