Europa Universalis IV Dev Tracker

sharkeyyyy said: Edit II: launching the .exe directly does not prevent DLC from loading.

It will eventually

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Please do a full **clean** re-install:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-EU4
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4 folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add EU4.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 make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam EU4 or Documents EU4 locations, before installing again.


IF that doesn't help:
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sharkeyyyy said: Edit: It appears, as before, that I can stop the stuttering by launching EUIV.exe directly from the folder, not using Steam, and this stops the stuttering.

Does that prevent the DLCs from loading? If so, you could see if those are what's doing it by disabling them all in Steam then run the game from Steam.

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Jiajinlong Kang said: having a 20 FPS when opening a tab is far away from satisfatory

I understand te fps drops in that and other circumstances. What I'm trying to establish is if there are other performance symptoms! So when you open a tab, is that notably slow to happen, quit aside from the fps at that time?

Not that I have any idea of what is causing this on your hardware, which of course ought to be fast!