What we’re talking about, according to the devs, is improvements in the 10 – 15% range. If you have a proper gaming computer, the changes can and do make a difference. In other words, I can just about finish a game on small or medium universe. Space battles seem to lag less though, even massive ones…based on all this, I could say that I can now make it to 2500 instead of 2400 before the game becomes unplayable. The game still won’t run smooth in the endgame. In other words, there seem to be some small updates to performances, but for anyone with an “adequate” PC, those don’t really make a difference. What was once a month is now a week, and as things progress that week will soon be a day…and given that by 2400 you’re usually waiting for the crisis to fire with everyone else defeated, there is little point to do but to start all over again.

Whether medium or small map (there’s no point even trying huge for me) the game simply slows down once the galaxy becomes overcrowded. When I last played Stellaris, which was probably more than a year ago, the same issue happened. It doesn’t run most other games super well either, but the CPU and other stats do fit the recommended requirements over at Stellaris Steam page.Īnd the game does still slow down when the year 2400 comes around. Games like HoI4 and Imperator: Rome also stutter and slow down once the numbers get too high. Granted, my brand new gaming laptop is now a few years old (but newer than the game), and it wasn’t top of the line anyways. Without a doubt, these do make some sort of a difference. 2.8.1 change?Īccording to the team, they removed some checks for refugees, improved loading times at startup, changed some calculations to be done weekly instead of daily and so on. The latter has been in the crosshairs for a bit now, and the team has supposedly made quite some improvements in the way things are calculated, and how your cores are used.īut is there a difference really? What does Stellaris v. The latest update brought another DLC as well as some performance updates.

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