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Hey guys, I'm a long time paradox enjoyer. I used to play on PC a lot, until I sold my PC. I bought a steam deck a while back and since the Crane update the game has become unplayable for me. From what I can tell the Crane update did make the game more stable. My issue is on the steam deck, the NEW map graphics is making it stutter and lag horribly. If I cut advanced shaders off it runs perfect but the map is horrible.

Basically now I need to buy a PC again. I'm not playing on an ate up map

I was thinking of going with 32 or 64gb ram. What else would anyone recommend?

I seen some cheap prebuilts at Sam's club and Walmart with 32gb ram and 5040 GPU with 12gb VRAM. I know CPU processing is something I need to look into as well. Any recommendations?
 
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Vindeo said:
Hey guys, I'm a long time paradox enjoyer. I used to play on PC a lot, until I sold my PC. I bought a steam deck a while back and since the Crane update the game has become unplayable for me. From what I can tell the Crane update did make the game more stable. My issue is on the steam deck, the NEW map graphics is making it stutter and lag horribly. If I cut advanced shaders off it runs perfect but the map is horrible.

Basically now I need to buy a PC again. I'm not playing on an ate up map

I was thinking of going with 32 or 64gb ram. What else would anyone recommend?

I seen some cheap prebuilts at Sam's club and Walmart with 32gb ram and 5040 GPU with 12gb VRAM. I know CPU processing is something I need to look into as well. Any recommendations?
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What's your budget? I'd also recommend avoiding prebuilts from something like Walmart/Sam's Club; they aren't always the best. Newegg would be ideal, but Best Buy and Amazon would work as well. Which Paradox game are you trying to play? if it's the older ones you don't have to worry as much but if it's EU 5 then you want to at least aim for an Intel I7-14700k or an AMD 7800X3D. 32 GB of RAM should be fine. Graphics-wise, a 3060 TI would be fine if Paradox games were all you were planning on playing.
 
Vindeo said:
I seen some cheap prebuilts at Sam's club and Walmart with 32gb ram and 5040 GPU with 12gb VRAM. I know CPU processing is something I need to look into as well. Any recommendations?
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A ryzen 5800X3D should do you fine for all paradox games, although if you're going for Zen 4 a 7000 or 9000 series 800X3D chip would also be really good.
 
Professor Donger said:
What's your budget? I'd also recommend avoiding prebuilts from something like Walmart/Sam's Club; they aren't always the best. Newegg would be ideal, but Best Buy and Amazon would work as well. Which Paradox game are you trying to play? if it's the older ones you don't have to worry as much but if it's EU 5 then you want to at least aim for an Intel I7-14700k or an AMD 7800X3D. 32 GB of RAM should be fine. Graphics-wise, a 3060 TI would be fine if Paradox games were all you were planning on playing.
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I'm mostly playing CK3 that's what I most want it for. I'm looking on Newegg rn. I'd saying under $1500.


I found this one for example.


Blackstar said:
A ryzen 5800X3D should do you fine for all paradox games, although if you're going for Zen 4 a 7000 or 9000 series 800X3D chip would also be really good.
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I'm sorry I don't really know anything AMD or ryzen.
 
Vindeo said:
I'm looking on Newegg rn. I'd saying under $1500.


I found this one for example.



I'm sorry I don't really know anything AMD or ryzen.
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Basically, the X3D chips have additional L3 cache (Level 3 memory cache) in them which allows for faster simulation speeds on paradox games thanks to the CPU having more cache memory to work with which is faster than regular RAM.
 
Vindeo said:
I'm sorry I don't really know anything AMD or ryzen.
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Your good. It's a bit to learn and if you were willing I'd recommend maybe looking into building your pc on your own, but prebuilts exist for a reason.

So the PC you sent has a similar CPU to what's required so it should be fine. (It has the 14700f instead of the K) It has 2 TB of memory, which is good, but you may want to buy more depending on whether you care about that or not. Graphics Card wise I would recommend maybe going down to the 4060, but that's mainly because I have a friend who has a 5060 I believe and he was having iffy experiences with it. I'm a pretty casual computer guy myself, so I don't know a lot of the ins and outs of them sadly, I know enough to get by, but I don't know the minutiae of a lot of it.

It also doesn't help that I primarily use AMD cards and CPU's

Starforge might also be a place to look into, I've heard good things about their computers

 
I still don't know which realm to play first. I'm planning to focus on economy and trade, really don't want to mess too much with war or colonisation.

History nerds and EU veterans, what is a good pick? I would start with the Holland tutorial but people are saying it's fucked so it scared me a bit.
 
Raging Capybara said:
I still don't know which realm to play first. I'm planning to focus on economy and trade, really don't want to mess too much with war or colonisation.

History nerds and EU veterans, what is a good pick? I would start with the Holland tutorial but people are saying it's fucked so it scared me a bit.
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Lemon Cake is doing a tall Poland playthrough and it seems to be a very good country for an economic playthrough. One of its unique advancements is the Folwark System, which boosts RGO max size everywhere by 20%, so as long as you have enough pops to fill it that's just a 20% production increase all over, additionally it has another advancement related to food production but I haven't seen it's modifiers. So overall Poland should be a good tall country to play as.
 
I haven't played Stellaris in like, two years. Does it make sense to try the newest version + all DLCs (yes, I won't pay money for it) again or will I just get irrationally angry at video games.
 
Raging Capybara said:
I still don't know which realm to play first. I'm planning to focus on economy and trade, really don't want to mess too much with war or colonisation.

History nerds and EU veterans, what is a good pick? I would start with the Holland tutorial but people are saying it's fucked so it scared me a bit.
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Portugal could be a pretty easy country to learn the economy game. Your only real threat in the region is Castille who you can easily be on friendly terms with.

Italian states would be harder to do but still fun.

Zorgulon said:
I'm hyped for EU5 but don't know which country to pick. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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I'm going to try a lot of the nations I default to in EU 4 and go from there. So England, France, Brandenberg, Muscovy, Castille, Naples, Florence and Holland
 
I already have a few ideas of playthroughs for when I get my hands on EU5.

- Naples —> Italy, try to colonize Libya and East Africa (This will probably be the first ever playthrough I try.)
- UK, try to get historical empire
- Spain, try to get historical empire
- Brandenburg —> Prussia —> Germany
- UK —> USA
- Japan
- lowland minor —> Belgium
 
I bought base CK3 but haven’t gotten the opportunity to play it because my computer promptly proceeded to die. It’d be my first autistic map game and I’m hoping I enjoy the genre, considering I’m autistic and have a history degree. EU is in my favorite era of history, but should I try EU5 or just go with EU4, which is presumably finished?
 
AndSothisIsChristmas said:
I bought base CK3 but haven’t gotten the opportunity to play it because my computer promptly proceeded to die. It’d be my first autistic map game and I’m hoping I enjoy the genre, considering I’m autistic and have a history degree. EU is in my favorite era of history, but should I try EU5 or just go with EU4, which is presumably finished?
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EU5 from what reviews and people with early access are saying is really good

It'd also be a cheaper entry point than EU4 and its dlc

But EU4 is pretty good but it's gotten a bit bloated with feature creep
 
AndSothisIsChristmas said:
Thank you, Tokai Teio
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Raging Capybara said:
I would start with the Holland tutorial but people are saying it's fucked so it scared me a bit.
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It's not really fucked, there's one specific thing that can fuck you if you're not aware of it/don't take steps to prepare. One of the YTers did a tall Holland run (Ludi maybe?) and because he knew about the potential problem ahead of time he was able to basically completely avoid it.

The main issue is because their lands are relatively small, but heavily urbanised, they can struggle for food production. As long as you make sure to focus on maxing what food RGOs you have, and maybe look into first expanding into areas that have more you should be fine.


Zorgulon said:
I'm hyped for EU5 but don't know which country to pick. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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Depends, what are you looking for? Are you looking for a specific playstyle/experience? trying to learn a specific system? or just trying to find something that will let you dip your toe in without being overwhelming?
 
East_Clintwood said:
Depends, what are you looking for? Are you looking for a specific playstyle/experience? trying to learn a specific system? or just trying to find something that will let you dip your toe in without being overwhelming?
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I'm a noob even though I had EU4 I'm still pretty inexperienced. So something for a beginner.
 
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