Does Anyone Play Paradox Games? What system setup do you run for them?

leo1798 · February 27, 2018

One of my favorite genres is grand strategy, and nobody does it better than Paradox with titles such as Cities: Skylines, Hearts of Iron 4, Europa Universalis 4, etc. My system can run them fine at 1080p with an i7-6500u (Laptop processor) and a GTX 950M, but I was wondering what setups those of you who play these games run to achieve optimum performance as I know they can get extremely taxing on your processor in the late-game. Also, what are your favorite mods to run? I love Kaiserreich in HOI4 as it is an even better experience than the base-game.

Sakkura · February 28, 2018

You mostly just want the fastest single-threaded CPU. They have made their games a little more threaded over time, but as long as you have at least a quad core it's the singlethreaded performance that determines performance.

I've been running mostly vanilla in recent years, but planning to get into a Game of Thrones multiplayer campaign in CK2 soon, which should be fun.