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CK2 Quick Load: The Best Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands for Loading Games[^1^]

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  • Aug 13, 2023
  • 6 min read


OK, so you think you're getting enough frames to remove graphics lag from your list of culprits. How come things still aren't smooth? Enter Stutter Lag, which occurs during periods where the game appears to stutter or momentarily freeze. To understand this problem, you need to picture the chain of events which lead to the game image appearing on your screen, as detailed here. Basically, all game data has to first load up from your drive before your CPU and graphics card (GPU) can do anything with it. At various points that data is held in temporary storage areas such as your system memory (RAM) or video memory (VRAM) to help your CPU or GPU access it more quickly when it's needed. You can see that there are several areas which could be to blame for game data not flowing smoothly through your system. When that data hits points where game information is not being transferred fast enough, you get stuttering and momentary freezes.


Example: You're wandering through a wide open game world, enjoying the sights and sounds. You really feel immersed in the game. But every few yards you get these annoying small pauses which really break the atmosphere. It gets worse whenever you enter new areas, or at the start of some combat, or if you turn around very quickly, and you wish it'd just go away.




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One trick which helps reduce stutter lag during online games, where one badly-timed stutter can lead to an early death, is to go to spectator mode when first entering the game, and spectate for a minute or two. Switch through various players if possible to allow as much of the different types of game data to preload before joining in the match.


When all else fails, you'll need to upgrade your hardware. Nobody said being a PC gamer would be cheap. But where do you begin to even consider which piece of hardware to upgrade? The quickest method if you're running Windows Vista or Windows 7 is to look at your Windows Experience Index (WEI), found under the Performance Information and Tools component of the Windows Control Panel. Check to see which component has the lowest score, because despite what you may hear, the WEI is actually a reasonable indication of your system's weakest point. That's why your overall WEI Base Score is always equal to your lowest component score, not an average of all your scores.


One dead giveaway that you have hardware-based stutter lag is your drive light: if it's on or constantly flickering whenever you experience stuttering, your system is struggling to load/swap data fast enough to keep things smooth.


Second, several control-related game settings can cause input lag even on the fastest of systems. The two most common settings which can noticeably affect how responsive your mouse movements feel are Mouse Smoothing and Mouse Acceleration. Mouse smoothing attempts to average out your movements so there are no noticeable jumps in the movement of your cursor/crosshair as you move your mouse. The problem is that this also results in a laggy and less precise feel, especially when trying to aim quickly at a target, so disable it. Mouse acceleration affects how far your cursor/crosshair moves depending on how quickly you move your mouse. Faster movements lead to larger changes in the cursor/crosshair's position, while slow movements lead to smaller and more precise shifts. This can be useful on the Windows Desktop, but in most games it can make it difficult to consistently hit a target under various circumstances because of its unpredictable effect on your aim, so it's also best disabled. Check the game guides linked further above for more details.


One last setting which is a very common cause of both graphics lag and control lag is Vertical Sync (VSync). When VSync is enabled, because of the way it works, it not only has the potential to reduce your FPS by up to 50% or more, it also frequently introduces control lag. Disabling VSync is the quickest and easiest way to both reduce graphics lag and control lag. If you find the 'screen tearing' which occurs when VSync is disabled annoying, then you can enable VSync and also enable Triple Buffering to counter most of its negative effects.


Unrelated to ping lag, but equally as annoying is Packet Loss. This phenomenon is actually a connection-related problem, because some of the packets of data travelling between you and the server are being dropped somewhere along the line. This means some of your actions won't be reflected in the game, and often you will see a rubber-band or warping effect, and things will become jerky and unpredictable. The only thing you can do at your end is to make sure you disable any background programs which are using your Internet connection at the same time. This includes any file downloading/sharing, messaging or similar programs - they can result in both ping lag and packet loss during online games. If you check with others on the server and they're also experiencing the same problem, the server is to blame and you may need to find another server or wait it out.


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This guide will help you, potential Crusader Kings II modder, to setup your mod so that it is possible to load it into the game from the CK2 launcher. To do this we will be creating a new mod directory within CK2's mod folder found in the Documents folder (AKA "My Documents" in Windows XP). By doing it this way one is forced to copy any needed files, thus avoiding messing up one's CK2 installation.


The fastest and easiest method of seeing whether Crusader Kings II is loading your mod correctly and to see if you have correctly setup your mod, is to change one of the localisation files. These files are what the game uses to determine what text to display for each language from the internal name that the game uses for the current item. For example, k_england is the game's internal name for the Kingdom of England. Clearly this is not appropriate text to display to players.


To implement this quick test, you first need to create a "localisation" (without quotation marks) folder in your mod folder. Now copy text1.csv from CK2's localisation folder to your localisation folder found in your mod's folder. From here, simply open up the file, find the above k_england line, and modify it. Once finished, remember to save.


If you were to load up your mod now you will find that our changes have not taken place, and England remains as England. What went wrong? We haven't told the game what to replace, and how do we do this? By adding these lines to the end of the .mod file that I mentioned earlier in the guide.


Some games modify this by giving you limited numbers of saves (similar to Video-Game Lives but perhaps allowing some strategy), bonuses for low numbers of saves, or immediately erasing/saving a game whenever you die or do something important (Iron Man mode). Another method of circumventing this is to set the RNGs for various events at the start of a new file with nothing else but said events affecting them, resulting in outcomes that are random but cannot be changed by reloading. Some games actually detect whether you cheated by Save-Swapping, trying to obfuscate the game which deletes a saved game by manually putting back a copy of said save file right after deletion by the game into its save folder. Even worse, wiser games will even call you out for actually trying to feed it an invalid saved file or rewrite the game program into autosave mode which disabled loading from savefile.note In the finest tradition of an arms race, players sometimes respond by digging into the game's files themselves, either to create backup copies of their saves in places the game can't touch them, or to manually edit the save file itself. 2ff7e9595c


 
 
 

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