After GU 14.1 for Anno 1800, it seems that the game starts to get laggy after you play beyond 1 hour. It is smooth when first loaded, but around 1 hour mark the game starts to have performance issue.

At around 1 hour mark, if you zoom out far away, you will notice ships movement start to get jitter (you can tell it isn't smooth sailing, freeze for that few milliseconds every second), and when you try to build houses you can tell the game responds 1 second slower than your command. It gets very obvious when you zoom in to production building such as farms and trying to put up the fields, the game either freeze for 3 to 5 seconds before responding to your command (building the field), or if situations get severe it will just freeze for more than 10 seconds.

These few days I try different things, and below is my observation so far:
1) The problem seems "cumulative through time", in other words you will have a perfectly smooth game when you first loaded your safe game, then the performance gradually drop as time pass. I try to force myself beyond 1 and a half hour game play today, and it just start to freeze the whole game to the point I almost need to use task manager to kill it.

2) I am using AMD 6800XT, so I did try with FSR ON and OFF, it does not make a difference.

3) It seems that if I lower down my resolution from 4k to 1440p (without FSR), the performance impact seems a little bit lesser in 1440p. It still lag/jitter, but not as unplayable beyond 1 hour mark.

4) DirectX11 seems to perform worst than DirectX12 (I am using DirectX11 previously, now I change to DirectX12). If i recall correctly, the game is not even smooth starting from the first minute if I use DirectX11 (which force me to try on DirectX12).

5) Although I have issue above, the game has not crash by itself, or maybe you can say before it even crash it is already quite unplayable.

My system in general:
- Intel i7-6700k
- AMD RX 6800XT
- Samsung SSD 1TB (2 drives, still with 150GB space)
- 32GB RAM
- 4k monitor
- Razer mouse and keyboard (in case their software got to do with this)
- My setting for the game is High/ultra in general, maxing most setting except AA at 4x. I did enable the high distance view, function that enable us to pan our camera view further (well beyond the general "Furthest" setting).

I could not find this recorded under Trello, so decided to post here. Appreciate if you can look into it, thank you.



Regards,
David

@dle-handy

Yes, it is exactly the same, just that I seems to experience it slightly later than 15 mins. Thanks for the video, it helps to give a visual verification to my claim, it clearly shows that it was not something very minor.

On top of that, you can try for farm and crop farm as well, it will be the same issue. Even zoom in on areas full of production building will have same issue as well. Not sure is this fixed in GU14.1 as I have not put in enough hours (Sorry my title is wrong to indicate this issue happen in "GU14.1", should be "GU 14", still cannot edit my post as I just get it posted).

Hope the new GU14.1 fix it

@ubi-milky Thanks for attending to our issues, I tested it just now, below are my findings:

• CPU Intel i7-6700k
• GPU AMD RX 6800XT (Driver version 22.4.2, latest as of date of testing on 7th-May-2022)
• 32GB RAM
• Tried both DirectX11 and DirectX12, no improvement on this issue.
• Length of sessions when lag begin is around 45 minutes. (It might have started earlier than this as reported by others here, just that I do not test this every minute. I am trying to enjoy the game while testing )

As for the troubleshooting guide link instructions, I have run Steam in administrative, and verified my files using steam before I test today. All drivers include DirectX is latest.

The video uploaded by @DLE-Handy in 3rd-May-2022 post is a good demonstration, and my finding is it does not matter what plantation. I tried using Cherry farm today, it does the same thing. And please also notified the team that it is not just plantation, in general when you tried to place any building you will have this lag issue (once it started of course), it is just plantation being extreme case as compare to something like resident building.

One more thing I must emphasize again, I did enable the ultra high "View Distance" under Graphics setting + turn on the "Increased Camera Distance" under Gameplay setting.

Thanks in advance.

@dle-handy Based on GU 14.2 it only fix below 3 items, not this

• Added a fix to revert the issue of all Achievements getting unlocked in-game after starting Seeds of Change (Note: This will retroactively fix existing savegames according to the data from Ubisoft Connect.)
• Fixed an issue with the game not launching and getting stuck on a black screen on Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10980XE CPUs
• Fixed an issue with three Clay Pits missing on the south-eastern island (Season of Silver)

@dle-handy well, all i can do now is play 45 mins and restart

@ubi-milky Thanks for attending to our issues, I tested it just now, below are my findings:

• CPU Intel i7-6700k
• GPU AMD RX 6800XT (Driver version 22.4.2, latest as of date of testing on 7th-May-2022)
• 32GB RAM
• Tried both DirectX11 and DirectX12, no improvement on this issue.
• Length of sessions when lag begin is around 45 minutes. (It might have started earlier than this as reported by others here, just that I do not test this every minute. I am trying to enjoy the game while testing )

As for the troubleshooting guide link instructions, I have run Steam in administrative, and verified my files using steam before I test today. All drivers include DirectX is latest.

The video uploaded by @DLE-Handy in 3rd-May-2022 post is a good demonstration, and my finding is it does not matter what plantation. I tried using Cherry farm today, it does the same thing. And please also notified the team that it is not just plantation, in general when you tried to place any building you will have this lag issue (once it started of course), it is just plantation being extreme case as compare to something like resident building.

One more thing I must emphasize again, I did enable the ultra high "View Distance" under Graphics setting + turn on the "Increased Camera Distance" under Gameplay setting.

Thanks in advance.

@dle-handy Sorry did not notice that, but yes it is still there (I tried yesterday).

@dle-handy

Yes, it is exactly the same, just that I seems to experience it slightly later than 15 mins. Thanks for the video, it helps to give a visual verification to my claim, it clearly shows that it was not something very minor.

On top of that, you can try for farm and crop farm as well, it will be the same issue. Even zoom in on areas full of production building will have same issue as well. Not sure is this fixed in GU14.1 as I have not put in enough hours (Sorry my title is wrong to indicate this issue happen in "GU14.1", should be "GU 14", still cannot edit my post as I just get it posted).

Hope the new GU14.1 fix it

After GU 14.1 for Anno 1800, it seems that the game starts to get laggy after you play beyond 1 hour. It is smooth when first loaded, but around 1 hour mark the game starts to have performance issue.

At around 1 hour mark, if you zoom out far away, you will notice ships movement start to get jitter (you can tell it isn't smooth sailing, freeze for that few milliseconds every second), and when you try to build houses you can tell the game responds 1 second slower than your command. It gets very obvious when you zoom in to production building such as farms and trying to put up the fields, the game either freeze for 3 to 5 seconds before responding to your command (building the field), or if situations get severe it will just freeze for more than 10 seconds.

These few days I try different things, and below is my observation so far:
1) The problem seems "cumulative through time", in other words you will have a perfectly smooth game when you first loaded your safe game, then the performance gradually drop as time pass. I try to force myself beyond 1 and a half hour game play today, and it just start to freeze the whole game to the point I almost need to use task manager to kill it.

2) I am using AMD 6800XT, so I did try with FSR ON and OFF, it does not make a difference.

3) It seems that if I lower down my resolution from 4k to 1440p (without FSR), the performance impact seems a little bit lesser in 1440p. It still lag/jitter, but not as unplayable beyond 1 hour mark.

4) DirectX11 seems to perform worst than DirectX12 (I am using DirectX11 previously, now I change to DirectX12). If i recall correctly, the game is not even smooth starting from the first minute if I use DirectX11 (which force me to try on DirectX12).

5) Although I have issue above, the game has not crash by itself, or maybe you can say before it even crash it is already quite unplayable.

My system in general:
- Intel i7-6700k
- AMD RX 6800XT
- Samsung SSD 1TB (2 drives, still with 150GB space)
- 32GB RAM
- 4k monitor
- Razer mouse and keyboard (in case their software got to do with this)
- My setting for the game is High/ultra in general, maxing most setting except AA at 4x. I did enable the high distance view, function that enable us to pan our camera view further (well beyond the general "Furthest" setting).

I could not find this recorded under Trello, so decided to post here. Appreciate if you can look into it, thank you.



Regards,
David