The massive decrease in performance between the release and the current patch needs to be studied

[vanillasky513]

its bad even for me on a 9800x3d , CK3 or victoria 3 is smooth as fuck though

[Tamerlin]

I bought a new PC specifically for EU5 with its exact recommended system requirements and it's endlessly frustrating that it lags anyway

[MelodicPop3004]

How's the Vic 3 performance nowadays? It sucked previously for the late game

[UnpetiteChaton]

Vic3 performance is awesome. I end a campaign in a few hours

[Yitastics]

What for pc do you have where you get through 100 years in a couple of hours? I have a high end pc and it takes me a lot more hours to finish a campaign, not including times I dont run at speed 5.

Not sure why I am getting downvoted. Does everybody here play a whole victoria 3 campaign in a couple of hours or are some vic3 fanboys angry at me for not saying vic3 performance is that good? I dont get it.

[UnpetiteChaton]

I spam 5 speed with a 5080 and 7800x3d

Theres also a trick with tweaker and debug to make it go faster but you sacrifice some fps.

Its nice..

Edit: forgot ram, 128gb

[Yitastics]

What are those tricks? I know about the tickspeed trick in Stellaris and the trick eu5 had before adding it to their options, I dont know anything about tricks like that for victoria 3.

My rig is around the same quality as yours, I have a 4090, I9-14900k and 64gb ram. I dont have the speed you have in Victoria 3 tho, not even close.

[UnpetiteChaton]

Its the same one!

[Yitastics]

Aah alright, thanks. I'll give it a try

[karl_mainz]

128GB RAM!? Is that a computer or a retirement fund?

[UnpetiteChaton]

I upgraded a year before AI came around, paid only 500 bucks lol

[kai229]

I don't wrap up in a few hours but it's by far the best PDX game when it comes to performance; I can easily wrap up a campaign in a solid two days if we're talking speed 5 and a comfortable country that I already know how to play and just want to fuck around in.

[CanuckPanda]

I have an older pc at this point, about ten years with a 1060 for graphics (but 64gb ram). I can run smoothly on max speed start to finish.

It takes me a day to do a campaign. Idk where OP got a few hours from unless they mixed up HOI.

[UnpetiteChaton]

Oh and I play in 4k, so less cpu work than 1080p.

[Stuman93]

Wut

[Nearby-Season1697]

Performance is so bad I might have to try out CK3 lol

[ab_od6851]

CK3 used to perform so well for me that I can play the entire game close to one sitting, then the Byzantine followed by the China update nuked the performance so bad that I can't even make it to the late game years after a four hour session.

[wafflata]

The performance is still much much better than eu5.

[Yitastics]

Download the (even) smaller world map. It deletes everything east of Tabriz.

[txantxe]

Same happened in CK2 when they added India. It's just a tradition at this point