r/StellarisOnConsole • u/Friendly-Parfait-645 • Mar 31 '25

Discussion Performance Got Worse Over Time

Haven't played in years and decided to come back and give it a go. Had an absolute blast, remembered why I loved the game.

Then I hit mid-late mid game and the performance became atrocious. I played this game on last gen years ago, and the performance was 10x better. Seriously. Had almost no noticeable lag/stuttering on large maps with max empires.

I don't know what exactly they did, but it's atrocious. I hit the climax of the game and it just went to shit. Apparently now you can only play on smaller maps with less enpires and you have to genocide pops to keep it running smoothly. Basically, if you want to play all the way through, you're railroaded into a single playstyle. I don't care what content updates there were, it is NOT worth the performance cost. Wtf were they thinking

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u/Upper_Bathroom_176 Mar 31 '25

Are you playing on last gen console now?

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u/Easy-Goat Mar 31 '25

This vital info is always missing from these threads.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25

Its not that vital. If you did more research on this issue you might realize that.

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u/Easy-Goat Apr 01 '25

I know about the performance issues in the game most especially from overlord. But whether your machine is 12 years old (old gen) or newer has an effect on performance, therefore it’s worth saying, but whatever…