First lower all the unnecessary graphic settings, like 3d buildings, 3d tree, or stuff you dont really need to look at. Disable everything except 3d units and rivers. I've literally done zilch in between these periods and for some reason, HOI4 just seems to be running much slower. It supports port forwarding and the same platforms where you can run the game, namely Windows, macOS, and Linux. This mod claims it can take you to 1939 in 1 hour with 10 player in multiplayer! That is bold and I like it. Post your PC specifications to help us analyze the issue. smooth command. [deleted] • 2 yr. That helped also. You can also type debug_smooth in the console, but do keep in mind, the game would be faster but. DrosselmeyerKing • 7 mo. Now I can't even get past 1936 without it. The find the settings file. When it gets to 39 or 40 it takes as long as 2 minutes to move troops, pick research etc. 5. tracked and wheeled units have their drawbacks, which is fuel and need for even more trucks to run from near-front-line supply370K subscribers in the hoi4 community. You might be in for a rough go. Clearing Cache doesn’t work either. Here are some of the improvements you can expect from BetterSupply: Improve your army’s combat performance by reducing the attacker’s penalty for supply lack. It will make the game appear lagging if your are moving across the map but it will speed it up. Avoid running additional mods. tomu4ea. r/hoi4. However the game still runs super slow. The tutorial are available here:. As for all Paradox games, Hearts of Iron IV is moddable to a great extent. 10. I have similar specs to OP (use intel cpu instead of amd) and while it makes the game run super fast on 5 speed, you crash a lot if the game lags a bit for peace deals or large map transfers like if the soviets capitulate. I've als noticed there are literally tons of individual "tech tree expansions" or resigned/extended focus tree mods on the steam workshop. It makes it so that the wate. you need to run a large number of A/B tests with a large number of users in order to statistically determine if the 'solution' provides. 32GB of RAM is way more than enough for a game like HOI4 (or really any game as of 2020). Microstates like the Vatican are now deleted. Today_Legitimate • 3 yr. 1) Exit Steam. I learned to ignore the 3d mostly. Puppet Argentina for manpower. Increases the minimum game speed so that it's not painfully slow. Nyjene • 3 yr. Then turn off all settings or set to lowest except for 3d units and rivers. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement. Discord! me on Patreon! me on Twitter:. At 5 Speed it can still chug a little slowly,. Including background tasks. This command enables or disables (toggles) frame smoothing. Subscribe for Banat mega campaign at 1k!-----. I'm having real trouble playing HOI4 after about 1939/40 because it just slows down so much! I'm playing on an i7 laptop with 16GB RAM, so I can't imagine. ago. 2: Use submods (see submods pinned message) which have names like "Optimization" or "Remove Africa". Specs are: i5-10500H intel core (I think I remember this is the reason why big mods are slow) 16gb of memory. You can do this with vsync if you have a 60hz monitor. You need speed. From what I can guess, I think the game runs at 60% of it's usual speed when at max (it's slow that's for sure) I have a i5-10500H CPU, I remember asking this question before and this was the reason why it can't run big mods if I remember correctlyIt runs smooth, sitting usually between 85-120fps, depending a lot. Enable the extra division limiter. HOI4 is very processor intensive so highest speed possible is best HOI4 is not very parallizable and thus multi cores beyond 4 don't give noticeable improvements HOI4 is graphics locked so a better graphics processor is worth it (Stellaris recently moved to DX11 which has better multi-core than DX9, no idea when/if HOI4 will get the upgrade)dja5757 • 7 yr. Generally things like "64-bit OS" or "DX11" are hard requirements and cannot be run on OS or video cards that do not explicitly support them. I prefer nvidia geforce for this game xD. Best. This mod also includes built in stats which can be turned off and on in decisions. Creating a Mod Template. GeForce RTX 3060, Intel UHD Graphics. 1 seconds. Open files in the common folder with that program. To make Windows 11 faster, you need to perform a disk defrag by following the instructions. Update your drivers = Updating your drivers is important, as it helped me to speed up my game a bit. BetterSupply is a Hearts of Iron IV mod that aims to improve the supply system in the game. King of Pleasure. i just found it normal at the beginning, but by looking at gameplays on youtube and such i realized that in my game, the time goes on much slower than it is supposed to. exe then right click and compatibility. There are mods that Just delete most of South America so their divisions and stuff don't slow the Game. So the amount of ram you have may be causing it, especially if you have an operating system that uses 1gb or more in the. I've heard it can takes forever to progress and the game doesn't use multiple cores. . 66GHz or Phenom II X4 955 processor coupled with a GeForce GTX 570 to run Hearts of Iron IV system requirements at. There's no way you can make HoI4 use less memory, not even by tinkering with the. How can I make the game run faster? My pc is kinda old, but I looked up hoi4 on system requirements lab, and the website says I have the recommended specs for the game. Other than lowering graphics, removing unneeded countries and the console command debug_smooth. . ago. Second is that there are 5 different speeds in the. You choose the countries you want to remove by clicking the button in the diplomatic actions tab. Have you used the console command (. Thanks! 1. Ok so go documents/paradox then delete your hoi4 folder (this will delete all your save games but in my experience that makes the game much faster) also try going to the launcher/ settings and at the bottom you'll see "clear user directory" your gonna want to do that as well should make the game run much faster. 3 and after this patch (where i can't play anymore in fullscreen) it take 10 sec to end each month and everything lag, opening menu, latence when moving troops, etc etc and each new patch is going worse and worse. Or start a completely new run that you don’t care about messing up. There are a few mods in the steam workshop that improve the performance. ago. 2K. Cost benefit probably depends how much you play. That'll be fine on 3 speed, 5 speed on early game, definitely not later in the game. ws [amount] – Add war support (up to a max of 100%). It makes the games run at a higher tickspeed, although. When I unplugged the charger, the game ran a whole lot faster. Hope it helps. 01. Step 3: Change the Detail Quality. Start Now. I could barely run the game at 40 FPS even at 4 Speed, 60 FPS was an impossibility. Debug_smooth is a console command that prioritizes hardware towards the game, reducing input device priority. 531 4. This is a completely normal process,but the better CPU you have,the less it should impact you. Pick CPU if you want to improve your Hoi4 and other Paradox' titles fps. DocumentsParadox InteractiveHearts of Iron IV". Smooth speed 5 gameplay. Remove microstates. Tight_Cicada_3415 • 1 min. 5. But I don't feel Paradox cares for its strategy games to be high refresh rate friendly, which I understand. pp [political power amount] – Add a specified amount of political power to your pool. Make sure to justify on nation that will become major next (China, Poland, Sweden, Brazil) so you can annex them in a peace deal before they become major. Of course I won't do it. And yet, AI was still terrible boring pile of. ️ Use Map Mods to increase game performance Use this link to download alternative 3:2 resolutions. Thats on your end. Hoi4 involves a shit ton of calculations and a shit ton of things to display at once, and as high-end PCs are able to do these faster (thus having a higher "limit") they will progress faster in-game compared to a low-end PCs. Dec 1, 2015. Mod to make hoi4 run faster? Question for eu4 there is a mod called fast universalis which makes the game run smoother on weaker systems, was wondering if there's one for hoi4 as I couldn't find one after a few Google searchs. On the 6th of June of this year, it was made available to the general public all around the globe. I've heard it can takes forever to progress and the game doesn't use multiple cores. The lag is always terrible, even when the host lives near enough to me. This thread. ago. Start Now. Playing the Tutorial gives a quick run-down of the game and is. If your problem still exists, then move on to the fix below. Codes:apR. There is several things to do to get the game to run quicker. User CrossMountain has posted a run on the HOI4 subreddit in which they managed to re-form the Roman Empire by October 20, 1936, which is just shy of ten months after the game starts. Any advice on how to make HOI4 run better besides video settings and buying hardware? From modifying the files to adding mods, anything will do. Last edited by 198xAD ; Aug 16, 2020 @ 5:57pm. It actually works preety good on my old pc. Thats how dumbed down hoi4 is. When starting out we decided we wanted to make HOI4 our most moddable game yet. ago. To bypass the console, discuss with other players the settings (ie: historical, nonhistorical, etc), create a singleplayer game but do not unpause, do the console magic, save the singleplayer game. I just unplugged the charger. Modding, or creating mods, is the act of modifying the behavior of the base game (often referred to as vanilla ), either for personal use, or to release publicly for other players, for instance - via the Steam Workshop . While you should be able to play the game, expect poor performance in the later years- my laptop has twice the specs of yours and still struggles in the deep endgame when there's huge peace deals and many. You can also do it in Ironman by putting it in the Steam launch commands, but again you'll have to deal with stuttering when at war for the whole game, or restart and remove the command when you're at war if it's unbearable. I now use parsec with my desktop so don't pay at all. This decreases the number of divisions on. My issue has come down to my old laptop and hoi4. ago. Any advice on how to make HOI4 run better besides video settings and buying hardware? From modifying the files to adding mods, anything will do. Try the “vanilla performance improvement” or something, mod. Under the “Reset this PC” option, click on “Get started“. #12. Good question. Creating a mod template is simple. any others beside the command weather and debug_smooth and the fps modst [amount] – Add stability (up to a max of 100%). Last edited by 198xAD ; Aug 16, 2020 @ 5:57pm. . 8. While NSB runs a bit slower due to the new systems it should not run that much slower where 1936 is now slow when prev you were fine until 1945 Heres a copule of steps. Means 0,322*8 = 2,576GB taken. That's just off the top of my head. Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5850 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX470 with 1GB VRAM. I play at full-speed and it drops to 17fps. Consider getting a new CPU. 11 sweep out all Map Resource mod. the issue is, it tends to go really slowly once the war starts. Add this to launcher options: debug_smooth=no. HOI4's files run on a very simple scripting language that is well documented on the wiki. The game frequently goes on sale at -75% off so my advice would be to wait until one of the sales (even though the game is worth its £35 price tag). So if EU4 is sluggish at all game speeds, but doesn't slow down by much more at faster speeds, then expect more or less the same from HOI4; but if EU4 slows down considerably as you increase your game speeds, then expect that slow down as you speed up the game to be worse in HOI4. DirectX: Version 9. debug_smooth. nu [number] – Adds the specified amount of National Unity to your pool. Are you sure nothing else is running in the background? Maybe there is some malware or something on your device. I am running a 2 month old top of the line rig, so I haven't really experienced much lag except for the game freezing for a solid 20 seconds when the coup finally happened in the Russian Federation in 1961. Either increase your supply of fuel or reduce your usage. Jump to latest Follow Reply. These games are CPU-bottlenecked. . Jump to latest Follow Reply. So i bought rdr2 for gaming laptop the other day and it runs like okay but it’s laggy. This performance can also be improved relatively easily, by reducing the amount of actors and the calculations they. Note that the DLC tab is currently open. Add this to launcher options: debug_smooth=no. Get the Vanilla map mod for CWIC, makes the game run faster, albeit, you do miss the unique map of CWIC. In HOI4 all these things are in soft code, or part of scenario script setups making it a much better platform for cool mods. ago. Currently Supports: 1. SmithyGamerYTV • 1 yr. ago. 3. Remove support by using a negative number. To bypass it, don't click the 'Play' button in Steam, instead open the hoi4. If the blue doesn't come up on screenshots it may be something outside the game, like an issue with your video cable (just brainstorming) Open-Art4783 • 9 mo. Most people don't play HOI4 for the graphics anyways. Both dowser and hoi4 ran without any issues and dowser let me launch hoi4 without failing to launch the game. However, the bottleneck is most likely going to be the cpu. In conclusion, there are several ways to speed up HOI4; however, players must be aware of the limitations of each. StandardUser09882. ago. I am someone who often stru. 59. You have to find HOI4. Are you sure nothing else is running in the background? Maybe there is some malware or something on your device. DR grabs Haiti/Cuba/Central America (puppet Mexico for manpower) Venezuela grabs Columbia + Brazil (Brazil has more manpower, but keep them for factories and puppet Columbia for manpower). If you are not playing on Ironman, use the debug_smooth command when you are not in wartime. It's running very smoothly. HOI4 is 4 years old, however. Keep low all in game settings, disable river, city, 3D buildings, reflections. Including background tasks. Actual late game lag where even lower speeds don't run smoothly anymore is a different story of course. (necessary to making it look and run nice) Under settings in the Video tab: Fullscreen: On. If you own the Sudetenland, Germany will automatically go to war with you in September 1938. 1. And by smoother I mean more fps. 3. 10 comments. It's the most reasonable explanation. One can use Chrome Remote Desktop or Steam Link (CRD tends to work better for me) to stream HOI4/other games/desktop content from a gaming PC to a remote device, eg. I've heard it can takes forever to progress and the game doesn't use multiple cores. 6. I know it “shouldn’t matter” since it’s streamed, but I’ve found that the lower quality graphics stream faster and this run smoother on my PC. speed 3: 0. 3K. r5: Conquered France in 1937, the UK in 1938, the US in 1939 and the USSR in 1940. While NSB runs a bit slower due to the new systems it should not run that much slower where 1936 is now slow when prev you were fine until 1945Heres a copule of steps. My pc is kinda old, but I looked up hoi4 on system requirements lab, and the website says I have the recommended specs for the game. I hate when people say they closed everything and have like epic games run into downloading a Fortnite update or something stupid. in 1940 it proceeds at about 1 hour per second, and that is nearly. Its features are various bug fixes to speed up, reflective water, file upgrades, and basic optimization. Those do not make the game more simple though. ThunderLizard2 • 3 yr. Top 5 ways to speed up HOI4 GUARANTEED!0:00 Intro0:38 Why HOI4 has a lag problem2:28 Turn off the AI3:00 Delete all units4:01 CPU misconception5:51 Annex Sou. Best. EDIT: Changing the physical map is a bitch. The engine paradox uses is not a very good in terms of performance. Follow. 0. . • 2 yr. You can leave weather on if you are feeling adventurous. More than likely your hardware is causing slowness due to large number of divisions around the time you're mentioning. Simply put,the later you are in a game,the more divisions you will see and the game will slow down. Hoi4 is basically a glorified spreadsheet. Then, plug your router back in and give it a few minutes to reboot. I have a laptop with Geforce GTX 1050. 3K. LoLo_731 • Fleet Admiral • 2 yr. Make sure to close all applocations, don't even dream about streaming the game. I've heard it can takes forever to progress and the game doesn't use multiple cores. xp [XP amount] – Add a specified amount of XP to your Army, Navy, and Air forces. Hoi4 Germany Strategy Provincial Elections Focuses on gaining independence and modifies the debilitating national spirits of the British Raj. FPS map, it makes the map look kinda ugly but it speeds up the game, also if you use the command debug_smooth it will turn off smoothing, making the game run faster. Re-install and install HOI4 = Just reinstall your game. I assume it's an issue with the number of armies on the field, since as soon as Ceasers Legion is defeated the game speeds up to how it runs for me in base HoI4. debug_smooth supposedly helps. Want to make Hoi4 run faster? Use the command ”debug_smooth”. Regardless of if your computer can, the game engine cannot run any faster. Step 2: Under Basic Settings, change the Render Quality setting to High Performance. Sure, you may run into some trouble initialy (my AVP wasnt supported by Win10 so i needed to install the US version which was), but you get it dirt cheap (in the case of Win10 for free). Paradox devs have explained multiple times that their games use more than one core, but that not all game logic can be parallelised. click both of those, and add the mod. "CPU" and "RAM" are generally soft requirements. 1 / 4. ago. This means that usually it will max out one core, and occasionally it'll max them all out. You can also type debug_smooth in the console, but do keep in mind, the game would be faster but. Here are the four main settings that you are going to want to turn off if you want to make HOI4 run faster: Disable High Quality Pixel Shaders : This improves the graphics quality. PC System Analysis For Hearts of Iron IV Requirements. With this mod, you’ll experience better supply flow and more strategic gameplay. Select one of the available Conscription Laws that appear on the right. Thats on your end. Go a few lines below to max_traits=0. Make sure to close all applocations, don't even dream about streaming the game. How to factory reset Windows 11. Created by Enigma Software House and distributed by Enigma Entertainment, Hearts of Iron IV is a sustainable strategic video simulation. Disable Reflections: This will remove the reflection on the water. I meant to say that in Multiplayer when we play on speed 2 or 3 it would set the speed at 1 saying that I needed to catch up, though the game runs slower than I would have it run by myself, which is weird to me, since if I am not the host, if anything, my PC should have some work taken from him, since things. 1941-42 slows down alot. Today_Legitimate • 3 yr. Darthjinju1901 • 2 yr. Go to documents, find paradox interactive. There are also mods that disable insignificant countries from training divisions. After a text bar opens up on the left-hand side, you can input your preferred HOI4 console. Hail-Hoffman. Discord! me on Patreon! me on Twitter: to hoi4 r/hoi4 • by DragonfruitNeat3604. In this. You would probably need at least 8 Ghz Intel cpu with skylake IPC to run late game HoI IV at 60fps. backwardsforwards • 6 yr. Reply replyDescription. I hear debug_smooth command helps as well. Including background tasks. 6. Yes, you can. I still have 135 GB of SSD storage. Join. Enable the extra division limiter. I hate when people say they closed everything and have like epic games run into downloading a Fortnite update or something stupid. Speeding up games is a bit more complicated than simply "getting more of this". I played an Imperial Germany campaign with the sole purpose of causing chaos. If the real issue is the entire game performing poorly, then i am in a similar boat as you and have yet to. Best. About 5 min in my game goes black for around two seconds then flickers to working for a fraction of a second (audio) and then closes hoi4. You have 8GB, and currently HoI4 takes 32. It's true that it runs on multiple CPUs, but they ain't exactly well-balanced: most CPUs run at 10% or less when I play full-speed, but one CPU (CPU 6) is at 100%. These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Hearts of Iron IV at minimal and recommended settings. The AI assigns them into armies and generals to those armies and periodically swaps them. Make Hearts of Iron 4 look better and run faster Taureor 232K subscribers Join Subscribe 7. Well, I see nothing wrong here. I need help. I was wondering how fast the game would run with these specs: CPU: Intel Core i9 9900k 8 Core CPU (Intel UHD Graphics 630) (4. Divisions that move. This creates the bare-bone files needed to build any kind of mod. • 27 days ago. Remove stability by using a negative number. debug_smooth. If you follow the steps and then start the game you should only see normal sized countries like Germany, Switzerland or Syria. [deleted] • 2 yr. It takes nearly 2 seconds for an hour to go bye for me. 0 coins. Using this launch option will disable that, making the game run at full speed regardless of what it might do to the FPS. Whilst the games ran, they were very slow, so I am going to buy a new Gaming PC for my birthday. However, the bottleneck is most likely going to be the cpu. I run at Speed 2 often, and I can see that time is not consistent - it slows down and speeds up all the time without. 0. THE DIFFERENCE IS FUCKING NIGHT AND DAY. Resolution - This is the option that will render your game at the screen size of your choice. Europa Universalis IV 81372 EUIV: Bug Reports 119 EUIV: Suggestions 18890 EUIV: Technical Support 6636 EUIV: FAQ & Strategy Guides. Go past 1942 and one day woll take 3 seconds to go by. Late game slowdown in most PDX games is a result of the game engine, the software itself, trying to juggle all the things. Is there a mod that can make the speed go faster? Advertisement Coins. I get the best performance by turning down the graphics. This mod claims it can take you to 1939 in 1 hour with 10 player in multiplayer! That is bold and I like it. For me, I'm able to run it on the new engine only when I have my laptop plugged in. There isnt any mods that help, And when I turn off full rendering resolution, it actually decreases fps. It takes probably 10 minutes for 60 days to pass. Is there a mod/way to make sure the following commands are executed so the game runs a gorillion times faster? I know I can do it myself but I was gonna play an ironman run and backed out bc this is essential. 1. Step 2: Choose the drive you want to defragment and click the Optimize button to start the process. You can do this by checking your system requirements, changing graphical settings, and using optimization software. I don't really have issues with HOI4, mods or no mods. 11. Make changes and save them. Avoid running additional mods. Ram is not storage. also if you're running high settings. Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1280x720. -steamsalty- General of the Army • 3 yr. Hotfix with more performance tweaks is coming this weekend so you can wait and see if it helps at all. . 000 and add the following code block behind it. type debug_smooth in console (press ~) it makes game run weird tho the performance enchance is worth it. Join. #1 Dagoth Brain Made Of Tired May 31, 2021 @ 5:24am Your missing a SSD #2 halolo39 May 31, 2021 @ 5:58am Originally posted by ᠌ ᠌᠌᠌: Your missing a SSD it. Up-to-date help for the Hearts of Iron IV (PC) command debug_smooth. It males the game faster, but a bit less smooth. I'm not optimistic about the 1650's performance in new, more graphically demanding games, and most game designers don't really make use of Ryzen's focus on # of cores, but I assume you realize that a $650 computer isn't going to tear through the newest graphical darling at max settings, anyway. Even with debug_smooth, lowering all graphics to the lowest levels, and everything else in the text book to make the game run faster, it still took like 30 seconds for one day to pass. How do I run bigger mods faster? (Millenium Dawn for example) I just saw a youtuber run Millenium Dawn at the same speed as playing un-modded hoi4 so it's definitely fixable. Thats how dumbed down hoi4 is. speed 2: 0. To stop experiencing crashes on loading change the renderer settings to DX9 and run un-modded vanilla HOI4 ONCE before starting with the mod. ago. Smooth talking charmer, is but one of the ones that make no sense to get. Also you can of course lower graphic quality. 1. Hello! I love playing OWB but I've been having issues with game speed.