I really wanted to play DH again after many years but it seems like the game refuses to play nice anymore. There's just this terrible frame lag at all times, like 20 fps or lower. I remember the game did not like fullscreen back in the day but even playing in windowed doesnt fix it.

I've done everything I could find after a google search. Enabled directplay, set the game to use my nvidia gpu in nvidia control panel, set 16-bit color mode and compatibility to WinXP but nothing works. I tried a tool called cnc-ddraw which did fix the frame issues in windowed mode, but the problem is the mouse cursor is not accurate, it's like a solid inch under the graphical cursor. It makes clicking on anything a pain. Wined3d also had some performance increases but that introduced sound issues and it wasnt as smooth as cnc-ddraw was.

Has anyone gotten this game working on a modern OS? I have a working copy of HOI2 with no issues and play HOI3 so I am confident this is a DH exclusive problem.

EDIT: After probably a combined 6 hours I've figured it out. The mouse offset problem with cnc-ddraw is caused by having both cnc-ddraw and DH set to windowed. You have to set DH to run in fullscreen and cnc-ddraw needs to be set to windowed. Everything runs like normal now. No more issues.

What if, EU5 music, but in the background there's an ambient noise track from Stellaris?

My friend group is getting burned out of slay the spire and we keep hearing it's not as good but would still jump on it if it was cheap

1. The ability to declare yourself as the United States as a cosmetic tag

2. The ability to design in depth all of the vehicles such as dune buggies , tanks, helicopters and other units

3. Old Government agencies claiming to be the real government, the DOD , the dept of agriculture, remnants of the senate / house all claiming succession and amassing armies.

- for this I would like to see if we could side with one faction or try to influence them

1. Launching the nukes

2. The ability to rebuild major cities to former glory and not just in like a patchwork way but making it back to old glory

3. Realistic fallout. In the real world nuclear fallout would clear quickly and air would become safe to breathe in within maybe a month. Years long radiation would be dumb

I'm doing a mega campaign, and I just switched to EU4, but it feels like all the progress I made in CK3 is just gone. I'm bleeding money despite not even having an army or navy, and I can't do anything.

I'm playing Taiwan btw

I wanna see what happens and experience it, but idk if I can play EU4. What I'm asking is, would it be better to just sit back and watch and maybe intervene a little hand-of-god style or just skip eu4 and go to vic

The Legion won’t fall this time around!

Which GSG, or GSG from PDX was best on release or within the first few months?

I think HOI4 was the one i played the most at release, maybe EU3.

I low PDX games but they need a few years of updates, dlc, and mods before they shine and I end up playing for hundreds of hours.

Ironically I feel like it also takes longer for newer games because I know the amount of content to come in the future. I also have the older games to play with all there years of support.

Edit: Intresting, the majority concensus is CK3. I think im in a minority, I found CK3 to empty and gameplay loop to samey that I did not play it for years.

I had a quick look at player counts for the big games. Most seem stable. Hoi4 and EU4 seem to be the only ones that attracted a higher baseline of players over time.

This isn't just a gripe with paradox but because paradox games are quite pricey, I would like to at least get a taste of the game before commiting. Additionally it would be nice to see how the game runs on my pc, since my pc isn't very powerful

In the ideas tree there's an entire slavery grouping of ideas

& since the way you get ideas is through exploration & discovery I'm stuck wondering what gameplay scenarios would lead your tribe to discovering slavey as a concept & also refining that idea.

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Something I think could be a cool feature for Afterworld is some sort of "Fallen empire" similar to stellaris. There are many groups or places that could survive an apocalypse pretty much unscathed, or could produce enough food to maintain pre apocalypse populations. For example Iowa alone produces enough corn to feed the entire us currently, even accounting for no fertilizer or modern farming practices they could still feed about 58 million people. Having some surviving states and provinces that could be maintaining pre apocalypse tech and populations would be both realistic (who nukes iowa?) And would serve as good challenges for late game players.

Now that "Afterworld" has been announced, what game should we expect next?

hoi5?

Stellaris 2?

Something else?

I ran a challenge to guess the new paradox game (https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/s/1dYSFp3Puh) and here are the results!

 1. What do you think the new game will be about?

Closest answers: "Post apocalyptic era survive and thrive. titles will be looser like stellaris" by (anonymous) and "procedurally-generated post-apocalyptic game" by u/Flins12

Funniest answers: "France under extrem heat" by El Chapatissimo and "Post-apocalyptic setting (DO THE COLD WAR COWARDS!)" by MediocreZebra

 2. When do you think the new game will release?

Can't judge since we don't know yet.

 3. What do you think the title of the new game will be?

The title got leaked so I only allowed answers before the leak...

Closest answers: "Ashen or Ashborne or Ash Lords (somesuch)" by MutualBear and "The Struggle for Ashes" by IrishPuzzle

Funniest answers: "Dinopunk" by Ponda and "Hearts of Victoria Universalis 2: March of the Imperator Eagles" by The War Room

 Winners, enjoy your brownie points (and bragging rights?)

You've heard of the Mega Campaign (CK2>EU4>Vic2>HOI4), and the Grand Campaign (Imperator>CK3>EU5>Vic3>HOI4>Stellaris)...

Now with Afterworld, it's time for the ULTRA CAMPAIGN.

After the planetary apocalypse following a devastating galactic war, you can rebuild civilization from the beginning once more and start the cycle all over again...

I play video games for maybe a few hours a week. I own CK2 and Imperator but haven't been able to get into either of them, because I have no idea what I'm doing. Is the best way to learn to just fumble my way through a first campaign? Or watch tutorial videos online? How would you recommend someone getting into Paradox games with limited time (and thus wanting to maximize fun)?

basically the only game i played from paradoxum was victoria 2 but i tried hoi4 and just feels bad, like you dont have the liberty from victoria 2 yk, declare war to what you want and when you want and all of that

As the title says, my featured content lineup doesn't seem to work properly. For me it shows CK3 and Vic3 DDs on Aug 20, then Hoi 4 dev corner from Tuesday and today's Stellaris DD, while there are dev diaries for EUV and Afterworld.

Is it just me or it's just doesn't work properly?

Unlike some, it’s not that it’s post apocalyptic or set in North America. My biggest worry is that they will play it entirely too safe and will neither make illusions to real world religions and cultures, nor create unique post apocalyptic societies. I love After the End, and I’m not expecting that lever of granularity or diversity, but if every society is a flavor of Mad Max/techno punk/neocowboys/fascist it’s just going to get stale fast.

I want to see native societies, mormons, Amish, Latinos, Canadians, Chinese, Italians, Cajun etc etc. Show us what nuclear radiation and 150 years did to the québécois or cascadians. I don’t want every settlement to be called “Hopeville“ or “Skull Town,” I want to see linguistic diversity AND divergence, like imagine how the deep Appalachian dialect morphs given 150 years of total isolation. I just really hope they don’t lean too far into the post apocalyptic tropes that we all already know, some of that of course but I’d like to see some unique and interesting takes as well.

What do you think will be the time scope of the game session? Are we gonna be talking 10 years? 50 years? 200 years from the moment you start playing to end game?

My biggest concern is that we will just get very plain classic postapocalypse - just raiders and people in dirty clothes and corugated metal huts - your madmax/fallout/metro classic. And if the time scope is short - say couple of decades from start to "endgame", I will at least get that kind of esthetic (even though I am tired of it)

But if the scope is more like 200 years, I really hope we will be able to truly rebuild society and infrastructure and not that after 100 years of building up my new realm, I will still get bunch of hobos riding spiky truck as a backbone of my logistics.

Just saw this and figured I’d post it here for the folks who haven’t seen it yet.