[2022] Game slows to a crawl within the first 100 years (Please help if you can)

Is this just in one particular galaxy Or also in any new one you might start as a test?

Has it always happened for you, or it used to be okay up to some point?

Any mods involved?

Do CK2, EU4 and HOI4 work okay or also have this issue?


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 .


Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php  

We can't help with modded games here I'm afraid. Is the unmodded performance acceptable to you?

I don't see any reason for a performance problem in that dxdiag, but ther's a newer nVidia driver so you may as well update to that https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

And unload GeForce Experience before starting the game.