Why is fastest speed so slow for me?

[Homunkolus]

I've been getting back to Stellaris again after a year of hiatus. A friend joined me on this revisit but I quickly noticed he was going much, much faster on the fastest speed than I was.
It took him during the first 100 years of the game about a second before reaching the monthly autosave every month. For me it took usually more than four.

It was puzzling as his setup was a bit older than mine and the issue never came up outside of Paradox games.

We both have a desktop setup that we run on Win10.
I run an i7-9700k CPU @3.6 GHz (standard) and an Nvidea 2070. I don't think that could be a bottleneck but I have 16 GB of DDR4 RAM installed. I checked power supply as well.

He runs an i5-6600k CPU @3.5 GHz and an Nvidea 1070.

I tried if it might be due to G-Synch but turning it off doesn't change a thing. Moving the game to SSD speed up the initial loading time but doesn' t accelarate the game either.
I tried closing all uneccessary applications. I also tried DX9 and DX11, doesn't affect fastest speed either.

The CPU has 8 cores and while one goes up to 70% during playtime the others never exceed 30% usage.

Does anybody have an idea what could cause the issue? I am not sure if this is a setup-related issue that is now challenged by CPU heavy games or if it is an issue with Stellaris itself.
How fast are can you go on your machines?

 

[AndrewT]

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 .

 

[Homunkolus]

Thank you so much. I forgot to delete some files after my last reinstall. And excluding it from WinDefender might have done even more. I forget about how insecure (lol) the Defender is sometimes abput some programs. Now the game goes much faster. About 1.8 seconds per monthh with autosave.

Sorry for the late reply. You do Blorgs work. Cheers.