Game gradually slowing down

[AussieHozzie]

I'll attempt a debug with every possible overlay or steam feature off and get back to you with results.

[AussieHozzie]

Unfortunately there's nothing positive to report from purging steam interfaces/overlays or features.

[morvael]

I meant non-Steam overlays, from other companies. They may have been installed along the drivers.

Does the game slows down only after one or more AI turns happened, or will it slow down even if you will not end the turn and spend an hour making your turn?

[AussieHozzie]

I recently put the game into a torture test, where it idled for more than an hour for 1 turn. Say, turn one on 1941 campaign, and eventually we have the memory leak/ "slowing down bug" occur. Interesting comment about the possible overlays installed with the drivers, I'll conduct a new test soon after cleaning the driver updates.

[morvael]

These are things like MSI's Afterburner, AMD's Catalyst Control Center or nVidia GeForce Experience. There are many reports in the internet about problems caused by these in various games.

Good to know it happens also in idle mode. So there is no leak in the active code.

[morvael]

Also, are you sure the computer is not running in some kind of power save mode?

[AussieHozzie]

I didn't see any improvement from disabling or uninstalling nVidia GeForce Experience.
No to the power saving query.
Maybe somebody else with the same issue can come across a solution one day.

[morvael]

Since even an idle game will slow down, it's not something that can be fixed without replicating your exact hardware & software setup. There is no leak in the game itself (especially in the logistics phase and AI code, of which I was most afraid), as it would slow down the game for everyone. This must be something that is interfering with the standard game loop that just paints the map and counters.

[Kantti]

Seems that my problem dissappeared completely when I changed from ATI 280X to GTX 1070.

[Hunter63]

ORIGINAL: morvael

(messing with interface while the game is doing something).

Old school pvp gamer morveal, but are you reading what you just put on paper?

That could be a big can of worms right there.

[morvael]

ORIGINAL: Kantti

Seems that my problem dissappeared completely when I changed from ATI 280X to GTX 1070.

Interesting, but from AussieHozzie's post I reckon he has nVidia card, not one from AMD. So there's still no easy explanation for the problem, but for sure it's some external interference.

[AussieHozzie]

I found a fix by solely deactivating the video folder in dat and leaving everything (including sound) to run as normal.
From the variety of issues for others in the thread my fix might not work for everybody.

[morvael]

Interesting, since no videos are played during the game itself.

[Denniss]

Maybe a codec does not work properly, staying active and forcing the gfx card into some kind of video mode with lower clock rates and increased power saving methods.

[morvael]

Maybe it's something Helpless could look at.

[AussieHozzie]

Sounds counter-intuitive but I'm not complaining now that everything is smooth again [:)]

[adek670]

Hi,

Had the same problem as that described. Fixed by setting the exe to run in win 7 compatibility and via admin rights.

System:
OS: Win 10
Cpu: Q6600
Gfx: Nvidia 260gtx
WitE: Latest beta

Ade

[Denniss]

Do you get the problem back if you either remove admin rights or Win7 compatibility mode ?
This information may help to narrow down the cause.

[adek670]

Hey Denniss,

Just reverted it back and now laggy as hell.

Ade

[Denniss]

Please try with just Admin or just Win7 compatibility mode enabled/disabled