I have been refereed by SEGA support to post here. I will therefore echo what I have said to them.

I start paying and I think I see stuttering and that unmistakable roughens of sub 60 FPS, but I taught I must be seeing things. After playing for about 150 turns I could deny my instinct no longer. I turn on RivaTuner and to my horror indeed, I'm just getting around 40 FPS. This is in the early game mind you. How could this be? I check my GPU and CPU usage. Only 30%. I was playing some single core games before so I taught maybe my first core it as 100% usage. I check, but also only 30%.

I tried all the usual fixes. Reducing my graphical quality. I didn't see how this could help because it was already under utilizing my components. That didn't help as expect. Maybe my drivers are out of date. I don't know how that can be since it's a game from 2014, but let's check just in case. Of course not. Maybe it's the community patch, improperly installed. I tried without the patch, reinstalling the game in the process. Still nothing. Maybe it was somehow the redistributables. Nope. Game overlay. Nope. Half refresh rate V-Sync? Nope.

I google around for benchmarks and find none. I google for other people having the same problem. Threads exists, but it always hard to pin down if we have the same problem. Especially if it's a thread from 7 years ago. I have also learned the my definition of good preformance is not the norm. Most people don't even know what FPS means. I have never seen this. That a game under utilizes my components, yet doesn't preform as expected. Is this how this game preforms or have I missed something?

Specs: Ryzen 5 3600; RTX 2060; Win 10.

NaniByte wrote:

@Slashman Like he said I mentioned that I have ELCP and that I have tried with and without it. This is bad performance early game. I'm talking turn 10 not turn 150.

Ah sorry my bad. I missed where you said it and yeah...early game is not normal to have that kind of performance issues.

Perhaps it is the Ryzen CPU. I remember that early on each Amplitude game (EL and ES2) had issues with AMD components. Not the only game I have seen this happen with either. I think that Intel processors also perform better in X4 Foundations...despite that game using Vulkan.

@Sublustris What performance do you have?

> It's a combo of "Unity meets Amplitude coders"

Are you saying that it's just like that then?