I've almost conquered the whole galaxy, but the game has crawled to almost a stop. I need to pause before I can do anything. It's taking 8 seconds for a day to pass at "Fastest" speed.
Advice?
Posted Dec 3, 2017, 10:29 AM UTC
If you haven't already, crack down them graphics and whatnot. I thought my late game was bad with about two seconds a day...I'm so sorry :c
Yes.
Put habitability at the lowest setting (heck, find or make a mod that puts habitability to even lower). Fewer planets = less lag.
Use a mod that lowest fleet cap. Fewer ships = less lag, but only if you are looking at ships in system.
The below thread has some weird fixes - for example, log out of EITHER Steam OR Paradox Interactive. You can log out of PI in the game launcher. Alternatively, don't open steam and start the game out of it's folder.
Warning: I am unsure of whether or not achievements sync between PDX and Steam.
Lastly, there is a permanent performance drop after the first time you quit and load a save file.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/game-only-lags-through-steam.1033465/
So I tried running Stellaris through the install directory to see if that would help, but none of my mods are loading. I checked the mod folder in Documents, but that was empty.
Any idea on how to get this working? I'm seeing different thoughts on it in that thread and wanted to be sure before I screw with anything.
The mod folder should fill itself each time you launch the game through steam, even if you manually deleted all mods (in fact, deleting all mods and config files is a great way to force a re-download if something goes wrong).
The folder is: \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod\
To launch the game through steam, launch the game through steam. You don't have to do anything crazy (just logout from paradox interactive in the game launcher menu.) Just subscribe to mods on the workshop as normal.
I am unsure of what you need to do for manual installation - but you can look up a specific guide to do that on google.
Thankfully the CherryH update will solve this by on average lowering the amount of ships loitering around; as that is the main cause of your problems.
Play at a slower speed-- perhaps half speed. Playing on faster speeds will do nothing except make the game a jerky mess. I only ever play at normal speed and on a huge galaxy by 2600 at peacetime, it's about 1 day per second, with hiccups. The game hiccups more often at war, and the UI is noticeably less responsive at all times compared to early game despite the framerate mostly keeping up outside of large fleet battles.
I found the game damn near unplayable late game on an older computer on anything above medium sized galaxies. On the plus side, small galaxies are actually surprisingly fun to play.