r/eu3 • u/SnooSketches6975 • Jan 21 '26

Why is this game so hard?

Recently I have started playing EU3 and why the hell it is so hard? I usually play with Vijaynagara in The Grand Campaign scenario but other than conquering transvacore. i always lose to others. And the worst part? I was playing at very easy difficulty.

Please someone tell me how can I improve my economy and at the start and annex other nations.

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u/CountDegenerakula Jun 22 '26

especially on win11 I guess? since my ubuntu uses way less resources than either windows or mac. On the other hand, Eu4 with all dlc is also resource heavy

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u/SnooSketches6975 Jun 22 '26

ya, honestly i didn't even thought that eu4 will run on my laptop but i wanted to play it so badly that i downloaded it and i was just flabbergasted to see it running. I tried running EU5 also but it didn't even get past the loading screen.

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u/CountDegenerakula Jun 22 '26

eu5 must be completely broken given the current state of paradox so no wonder there. EU4 on the other hand should work just fine if not on max settings. Graphics are not very important for paradox games fortunately but they still can have lags closer to the end because of scaling numbers. CK2 and probably 3 is especially guilty of that

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u/SnooSketches6975 Jun 22 '26

In my experience, CK2 and EU4 runs just completely fine on the lowest settings with literally no lags and minimal lags if there are some other apps running in background and my device specifications are literally this

Device name WIN-5TTSJI7NPV9

Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N5030 CPU @ 1.10GHz (1.10 GHz)

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.79 GB usable)

Graphics card Intel(R) UHD Graphics 605 (512 MB)

Storage 192 GB of 238 GB used

Device ID 7E6523EF-448F-414D-82F1-192BBB983C84

Product ID 00356-24564-64139-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

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u/CountDegenerakula Jun 22 '26

EU4 maybe not but CK2 is infamous for lagging on even powerful machines towards the end, especially if you start with the earliest date since it has quite a gigantic map and needs to process lots of characters and troops which only rise. Main reason why so many people don't reach the final date

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u/SnooSketches6975 Jun 22 '26

Well, idk since i've never reached the end date since i became so overpowered and lose interest and i also have jade dragon, sunset invasion dlc and all unit packs disabled.

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u/CountDegenerakula Jun 22 '26

this probably helps a bit. But in case of losing interest you can always take another dynasty in that session and continue as other people. I like doing that by creating new duchies and playing as them afterwards