My game is running very slow but it is not using all my ram

[vituba220]

My game keeps stoping randomly and it is getting pretty annoying and I don't think it is my pc's falt, because when I go to task manager it shows that my computer is only using 80% of its ram, 40% of the processor and only 20% of the GPU but the game still very hard to play, anyone know how to fix this?

[Shredder]

80% of RAM usage is enough to slow your pc. What are you thinking? Solve your problem by buying more RAM or unsubbing from the mass of assets you have. This game eats ram like fat children eat chocolate.

[Magnus Gray]

How much ram do you have? My game started chugging after subbing to a lot of building mods. and I had to go from 16gb to 32. 80% of ram is a lot. Your pc has to also process the stored memory.

[Rena]

How fast is your CPU? Is it overheating?

[Bloodsucker]

What CPU do you have? what does mean for your "the game is slow"?

This game is extremely intensive in CPU. Most likely your CPU isn't "at 40%" as you might believe. How are you measuring this?

[vituba220]

Wow I really didn't expected this many different awsers so let me start awsering one at a time
shreddy and Graylord, I thought that because I was only 80% of my ram there was a way to use 100% of it but aparently not >:0
Rena and Bloodsucker, my cpu is pretty good, it runs all games I try to play except for cities skylines, it is a ryzen 5 2400 I think ( I'm not sure tho ) and I'm measuring this on task manager itself

[Roro747]

You have better cpu as me (old 2700k + 8go ddr3 ) and my game work perfectly....With Gpu did yoy have??? Try to move your game on SSD if you have

[Shredder]

I have and old pc with 8gb ram and running approx. 150 assets and takes 2 minutes to load a save game. Once in game I;'m ok but my pc suffers severely. Just to give some perspective.

[vituba220]

The problem isn't the time it takes to load, the problem is that once I am in the game it keeps stoping randomly

[MarkJohnson]

Do you mean you have a Ryzen 5 2400G? If so, that has integrated graphics, which could be the cause of slowdown.

You may need faster RAM. It is set by default at a very slow 2133. It lives 3200 or higher.

Is this an OEM prebuilt, or you or someone you know built it for you? If not an OEM, csan you post the memory purchased, also the motherboard.

Do you use workshop at all? If so, remove it all until you sort this issue out.

Try to temporarily disable workshop (without unsubscribing it) using the --noWorkshop launch option flag.

Launch options post with video:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466981085

[Bloodsucker]

A Ryzen 5 2400 is NOT a super fast CPU as you claim, sir. It's just a normal budget CPU fast enough for the majority of games but not for all of them. This game **really requires a lot of CPU single core power** and not so much of GPU power. The game is slow because of your CPU in case you play medium to big cities.

I'm also assuming you have a dedicated GPU, if not then the problem most likely is the integrated GPU (or, both the CPU and the integrated GPU).

> it keeps stoping randomly

Do you mean it crashes? But that's very different than being slow. If it crashes, you probably have an issue with the workshop download. Remove them all and try the game without them.

[Lee the Yote]

My game was stopping like this and all I did was turn down the texture quality and details, i went from 15 fps to 30 on a core 2 quad. I dont have many assets though.

[vituba220]

That was very helpfull! I tested the game without the workshop and it ran very nicely, I uninstaled some mods and it was back to normal again, thanks guys! Btw my pc is dell pre build one and I'm pretty sure it has a dedicated GPU