[2023] Map Stuttering and Frame Skips on Really Beefy PC EU4

Lolcarlos said: *also should add that this is not occurring in any other game I play*

Specifically CK2 and HOI4, which I see you also have? Because they are very similar to this game under the covers - really if one is affected they should all three be.

Lolcarlos said: I have been trying to find a solution to this for a while

So it used to be okay up until some point?

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7 or later). 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 your Documents/Paradox/EU4/settings.txt and pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox/EU4/logs/ folder, attach system.log .  

Sorry, does this also affect CK2 and HOI4? Or not?


Will the game still run if you set it to:

refreshRate=60
fullScreen=yes
borderless=no

If so does that help at all?

And please try unloading all MSI utilities, and GeForce Experience if that is running.  

Can i get the files I asked for in post #2 please.  

No clues in those files I'm afraid.

Dos this also affect HOI4, Stellaris and CK2?  

CK2 is free to play on Steam now. It is the most similar game to this one under the covers.

If you are running GeForce Experience, try unloading that.  

In the Windows search box enter msconfig . Go to Boot-Advanced. If the number of processors box is ticked there, please untick it.

If that doesn't help, please install and run the free utility Speccy. Send its output to a text file and attach that here, thanks.  

I'm not familiar with Norton 360 but do make sure all these games are in its exceptions list.

I see you have OneDrive running, has it perhaps grabbed the Windows User Documents folder?


A few apps and utilities in there I'm not familiar with:

EarTrumpet.exe
SteelSeriesEngine3.exe
and all those Pivot Portrait apps/utilities

Can you try unloading those and see if that helps at all?  

I just had a report from another nVidia user on a similar game, who had this until they turned off anti-aliasing - can you try that please?  

The other case like this I'm running here just said that the problem did not occur under 1.28.3 with AA disabled, so you two obviously have a different problem cause.


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 30 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php  

Really, GPU only goes up by 2c? A bit surprising, but temperature is obviously not the problem here anyway.

What is, I frankly have no idea now. In Task manager - performance, are you seeing CPU, GPU or disk IO issues there when these ticks happen?