Very low FPS on launch

[BE-UA-GAMING]

Hi
For some reason, when I launch a save file in victoria 3, my in-game FPS drops to about 1 frame per 3 seconds.
I have no idea what's causing this, because according to task manager, I still have enough memory and CPU left.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance

 

[prismaticmarcus]

Moved to Tech Support

 

[AndrewT]

Is this just one particular save? Or any one you load or start now as a test?

Any mods in use?

 

[BE-UA-GAMING]

Is this just one particular save? Or any one you load or start now as a test?

Any mods in use?

Not just one particular save and no mods in use. I have also found that this effects other paradox games too, like HOI4

 

[Notme1]

I bet it uses integrated GPU, and not dedicated GPU
That is you need to change your computer settings to use dedicated GPU.

 

[BE-UA-GAMING]

I bet it uses integrated GPU, and not dedicated GPU
That is you need to change your computer settings to use dedicated GPU.

Might sound stupid but how do i do that? I have an nividia graphics card

 

[Notme1]

Might sound stupid but how do i do that? I have an nividia graphics card

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000090168/graphics.html
There are instructions ^

 

[BE-UA-GAMING]

I bet it uses integrated GPU, and not dedicated GPU
That is you need to change your computer settings to use dedicated GPU.

When I follow the instructions I only have the option to change optimisation. Besides, I would find it weird if that were the problem, since I've been using the device for more than a year without any problems.

 

[AndrewT]

Actually with both Nvidia and AMD, games ought to be run on the GPU not the integrated video hardware automatically - if the user has to do that manually, something is very very wrong.

But we don't know that is the issue here at all.
Right click on victoria3.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 at 60.


If those don'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/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

 

[BE-UA-GAMING]

Actually with both Nvidia and AMD, games ought to be run on the GPU not the integrated video hardware automatically - if the user has to do that manually, something is very very wrong.

But we don't know that is the issue here at all.
Right click on victoria3.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 at 60.


If those don'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/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

Unfortunately, the first suggestion didn't work. Here are the requested files.

 

[BE-UA-GAMING]

Actually with both Nvidia and AMD, games ought to be run on the GPU not the integrated video hardware automatically - if the user has to do that manually, something is very very wrong.

But we don't know that is the issue here at all.
Right click on victoria3.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 at 60.


If those don'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/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

Actually, I looked into the DxDiag file and was able to find the problem myself. Apparently, my GPU and CPU were ''disabled by the user in device manager'' (graphics device error code 22). To my knowledge, I never disabled them, but I enabled them again and now everything seems to be working fine. Thanks very much for your help!