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Hi,

Here's the relevant game files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

I have an issue where when I first load the save it works pretty good performance wise, using ~45% of my CPU (AMD 5950X) and around 6GB of RAM. As the game progresses, RAM and CPU usage slowly increase and the game gets progressively slower. Near the 40 minute mark it's using up to 75% CPU and bottlenecking at 100% usage during auto saves. RAM utilization is 32GB of RAM (I have 64GB in the system) and everything is operating at a snail's pace.

Normally I'd just think it's "more stuff to keep track of = slower performance", but if I save the game and reload it (exit the game entirely then re-open it, not just reload the save), it goes back to lower CPU usage and lower RAM usage. Performance improves significantly, and after about 40 minutes it creeps back to being super slow again.

In my last play through that was on an older patch, I did not experience these issues with the same game settings. I tried toggling texture streaming on but that didn't seem to help. Vulkan rendering modes just cause the game to crash on load for me so I have not tried that.

I'll try the latest beta as well as toggle off the particle effects to see if the performance improves and report back, but again these issues didn't happen in a prior version with the same settings.

Hey sethar,

Thanks for reporting the issue. As you said, please try the latest public beta version, which includes a game engine upgrade, which may improve your performance. Please let us know if you continue experiencing performance issues.

I got around to playing on the latest beta patch. Game performance is better for longer, still creeps towards the same slowness/heavier usage over time but in my hour long session it wasn't really bottle-necking until the very end and was 22GB of RAM utilization instead of 32GB.

I realized I play on 4X speed a lot. I tried slowing down to 1X and the game was a lot better for a lot longer (albeit slower). I noticed when it got super laggy after I paused the game things would still happen (economy would still change, spy missions would complete, etc). I think the game clock continues to progress but things are still trying to "catch up". I updated to 1.1.5.8 and it appears to be worse again, but I did not start a new game as I'm trying to finish the campaign. Hopefully when I finish this one I can see if a new game resolves the issues.