Issue: The applications performance is severly reduced while playing in Steam’s Offline Mode (deliberate).
Since somewhat a year I am having issues playing AoE IV in Offline Mode, since I am not into the seasonal events created for this game (getting addtional banners, TC monuments and PFPs).
Whenever I am playing online, I am not experiencing any issues. Game is running perfectly at 75 FPS locked without any stutters or input lags. With Steam’s offline mode active however games FPS are around 30-25 with single digit 99%ers. Game is showing prompt at Main Menu about being unable to save current changes regarding banners, TC monuments or PFPs, despite no changes being made whatsoever.
Trigger Event: Activating Steam’s Offline Mode deliberately and starting AoE IV
See above
Repro Steps:Running AoE IV on two different PCs.
Since this problem is lasting over more than a year, I got myself a new PC with greatly increased capabilities going beyond the minimum requirements.
PC no. 1: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD RX 6600 (8GB), 16 GB RAM, game installed on SSD.
PC no. 2: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3d, Nvidia RTX 5070ti (16GB), 32 GB RAM, game installed on SSD.
Issue persists, disabled any GPU related overwriting (no frame lock oder upscaling via the GPU options on both PCs). No changes occuring.
Theory: Application is hellbent or hardcoded on establishing online connection and redistributing app related resources attempting to transfer and synchronise local & cloud saved info, despite Offline Mode being activated deliberately., thus tanking overall performance.