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Cities Skylines II
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City Planner Plays did an extensive benchmark on a wide range of CPU/GPU combinations.
In the video, they retested after the latest patch on Friday, and they also discovered turning V-sync off helped as well. Both the patch and V-sync disabled resulted in an additional ~5 FPS at most.
Here is the Google sheet with all the breakdowns: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JIUokAXWOvHYsVZzJv7Skju5oKgm0-r4/edit#gid=1737240722
What CPP discovered was that this game is primarily bottlenecked due to the GPU. It’s only until you get to the very high-end GPU’s does he notice bottlenecks with the CPU.
One thing he notes is VRAM. He says this game soaks up a lot of VRAM and he recommends at least 8Gb of VRAM and 16Gb of system memory.
This gives me a tiny sliver of hope for Mac down the road. First, they HAVE to improve performance of this game so it can run on the Xbox Series S. There’s no denying that. On top of that, with Mac’s unified memory system, I’d speculate that a year or two from now, this game could potentially run fairly well on Macs. Since this game heavily utilizes both VRAM and system memory and Mac’s seem to handle memory fairly well (not to mention some Mac’s can have massive amounts of RAM accessible by the GPU via unified memory) But time will tell of course.
In the video, they retested after the latest patch on Friday, and they also discovered turning V-sync off helped as well. Both the patch and V-sync disabled resulted in an additional ~5 FPS at most.
Here is the Google sheet with all the breakdowns: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JIUokAXWOvHYsVZzJv7Skju5oKgm0-r4/edit#gid=1737240722
What CPP discovered was that this game is primarily bottlenecked due to the GPU. It’s only until you get to the very high-end GPU’s does he notice bottlenecks with the CPU.
One thing he notes is VRAM. He says this game soaks up a lot of VRAM and he recommends at least 8Gb of VRAM and 16Gb of system memory.
This gives me a tiny sliver of hope for Mac down the road. First, they HAVE to improve performance of this game so it can run on the Xbox Series S. There’s no denying that. On top of that, with Mac’s unified memory system, I’d speculate that a year or two from now, this game could potentially run fairly well on Macs. Since this game heavily utilizes both VRAM and system memory and Mac’s seem to handle memory fairly well (not to mention some Mac’s can have massive amounts of RAM accessible by the GPU via unified memory) But time will tell of course.
Oh that is a very interesting spreadsheet. It looks like the 7950X3D w/3060Ti has a CCX switching issue (unless they manually shut the other), it looks like it has less frames than the 5800X3D with the same GPU.
It's also a more boring game for some.
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Cities: Skylines 2 leaves out goofy stuff like pink vans with giant donuts on them, and I miss it
In realistic sims, a little whimsy goes a long way.
Ryzen 9 5900X (I've messed with PBO)
32GB 3600MT RAM (OC'ed to 3900 for IF sync)
Reference 6900XT Stock
Gen4 SSD
Win 11
I noticed that AMD's performance overlay doesn't actually read the CPU results right so I guess I need to run HWInfo in the background, but my CPU usage was hovering around 60 to 70%. GPU usage reported 99%. As more folks showed up the framerate dipped.
The graphics menu has an advanced option that unveils a lot of tweaking that can take place, when I get off work I will poke around a bit with it. Take my mind off the ridiculousness of SM:Wonder's "special stages".
There’s no need to mess around with settings on your own. Just check this page:
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This is based off of all the content creators that have also been told by Paradox various settings that will help with FPS.
With these new Mac’s having improved GPUs, the writing is on the wall for Mac gaming. The only barrier now is time.
I doubt this would ever happen because Colossal Order is such a small developer, but it would be great if Apple + Unity + CO had a partnership where they helped get the game running on Mac.
I have a suspicion that the integrated memory architecture with these new GPUs would be able to run the game really well with some optimizations via Unity/Apple help. I can dream.
Until then, my ETA is 1 year for CS:2 on Mac.
I doubt this would ever happen because Colossal Order is such a small developer, but it would be great if Apple + Unity + CO had a partnership where they helped get the game running on Mac.
I have a suspicion that the integrated memory architecture with these new GPUs would be able to run the game really well with some optimizations via Unity/Apple help. I can dream.
Until then, my ETA is 1 year for CS:2 on Mac.
A common bug!
garbage system is broken :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
My town has a pop of 5.3k and is generating 35t of trash. I have an upgraded recycling plant and 2 landfills and thats only enough to process about half the garbage. Each one has a 20 truck capacity but usually only 0-1 are in use at a time. Half my budget is used on trash collection and I'm...
My City is full of garbage :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
I'm consuming $4mil /h in resources for Garbage and garbage recycling and nothing is working, I have 12 land fields, 4 Incinerators, 3 recycling plants, and one Industrial recycling, I'm sure this is a glitch this is becoming frustrating to deal with...
Yup and there is a fix for poor mail services. It involves deleting all cargo train and ship depots.A common bug!
garbage system is broken :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
My town has a pop of 5.3k and is generating 35t of trash. I have an upgraded recycling plant and 2 landfills and thats only enough to process about half the garbage. Each one has a 20 truck capacity but usually only 0-1 are in use at a time. Half my budget is used on trash collection and I'm...steamcommunity.com
My City is full of garbage :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
I'm consuming $4mil /h in resources for Garbage and garbage recycling and nothing is working, I have 12 land fields, 4 Incinerators, 3 recycling plants, and one Industrial recycling, I'm sure this is a glitch this is becoming frustrating to deal with...steamcommunity.com
Is there a setting to reduce this aspect of the game? Just curious.A common bug!
garbage system is broken :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
My town has a pop of 5.3k and is generating 35t of trash. I have an upgraded recycling plant and 2 landfills and thats only enough to process about half the garbage. Each one has a 20 truck capacity but usually only 0-1 are in use at a time. Half my budget is used on trash collection and I'm...My City is full of garbage :: Cities: Skylines II General Discussions
I'm consuming $4mil /h in resources for Garbage and garbage recycling and nothing is working, I have 12 land fields, 4 Incinerators, 3 recycling plants, and one Industrial recycling, I'm sure this is a glitch this is becoming frustrating to deal with...
Just don't have trash services. The game will received those services from neighboring cities. And for right now it doesn't cost you anything (also a bug).Is there a setting to reduce this aspect of the game? Just curious.
Didn't they patch this with the latest patch last week, or is this a different bug?
Probably the same bug. I am playing on GP we haven't gotten the patch yet.
Ah, makes sense. Yea they changed a lot in that patch, garbage output seems to be a lot less. Seems way more balanced, but I did have to delete quite a few incinerators (unfortunately lost a lot of my electricity production!)
Garbage is fixed, but the post office (mail) is still messed up. I have to occasionally run the game in dev mode and send everyone home. I've downloaded a couple mods (one fixes the school capacity, the other fixes the traffic lights). I'm up to 110k people.