[Fixed]Fed up with this: [extreme!] Bad performance

Just noticed the replies will act on it later today. I have the thead marked as watched

PA seems to be much more RAM heavy then Graphics, everything in your specs should cut it except RAM, its kinda a minimum requirement of 8GB lol

Oh, right, the memory. Yeah, 4 GB is at the low end of spectrum, but should still be playable. Uber has recently cut the memory usage quite drastically, but there is also the "How-to: decreasing UI memory usage on Windows / Linux" thread by SXX, which helps a lot.

Here is the DxDiag in case you want to know. I am downloading the beta drivers as i am typing this. Will install, run directly from PA.Exe and see what happens.

As i didn't hear back from Uber, i guess they met a dead end, are still investigating (e.g. they sent a request to AMD/ATI whatever it is nowadays for support) or just forgot as they're knee deep in work (which is always a possibility).

Anyway, will report back

I will apologize for the mass quote first, but i think this reaches just about everyone i need to reach.

I fixed my problem, through a combination of completely non-obvious solutions that would blow anyone's mind if they didn't stumble upon it. Fortunately, this may be a very easy solution path to fix the weirdest of weird problems that seem to have no solution whatsoever. Like mine. Except now, there is one.

*beta Drivers.

I can't quite detect an effect here.

*No steam overlay
No effect

* Running from the .Exe
Cuts it down to about ~5 minutes loading

Now sit down, and prepare to be blown away.

*running from .Exe as administrator:

Cuts it down to 30 seconds to max 1 minute, on Pax Prime 2014. I finished a 60-minute game and other than a few extreme cases causing significant lag (zoomed in to a planet with another planet moving in the background, close by) i managed to have a relatively smooth (still some lag) game. i managed to beat 3 normal AI's on FFA and use an Annihilasor (caused a few seconds lag). Other than that, it was actually playable!

So yea, please spread this fix to every corner so that others may try.

NOTE:
*running as administrator from .Exe:

Does not work (~3-4 minutes load time).


So yea, now i use beta drivers, run as administrator directly from the .Exe (with minimum background programs) and i can actually play.

Glad you managed to find a solution!