City Skylines - Overheating Computer

[deadpirates]

So my laptop isn't new but defintely not old, and my fan works fine on all of my other hardy games. its only overheats on borderlands and sadly, City Skylines. It didn't start out with city skylines, i was able to play on it without having problems when i first downloaded it so idk whats going on tbh
is it from city skylines or is this a computer problem?

[ThisHero]

when you first start out there is almost nothing for the computer to process. as you add more and more to your city, the resources required will grow in lockstep. your computer is almost certainly not capable enough to get far in the game. what are your pc specs?

[deadpirates]

Originally posted by ThisHero:

when you first start out there is almost nothing for the computer to process. as you add more and more to your city, the resources required will grow in lockstep. your computer is almost certainly not capable enough to get far in the game. what are your pc specs?

Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.9 GB Usable)
System Type: 64-Bit operating system, x64-based processor

[Verullus Forgefire]

Originally posted by maxrants:

Originally posted by ThisHero:

when you first start out there is almost nothing for the computer to process. as you add more and more to your city, the resources required will grow in lockstep. your computer is almost certainly not capable enough to get far in the game. what are your pc specs?

Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.9 GB Usable)
System Type: 64-Bit operating system, x64-based processor

No GPU?

[deadpirates]

I have Intel(R) UHD Graphics Card and NVIDIA GeForce GTX

[Verullus Forgefire]

Make sure that your Nvidia GPU is set for taking over games instead of your Intel GPU. Your processor would also tell if your laptop is meant for gaming or not.

Nevertheless most laptops are not really meant for gaming. Need proper airflow to cool down all your hardware or else they for sure start to struggle.

[deadpirates]

Originally posted by Verullus Forgefire:

Make sure that your Nvidia GPU is set for taking over games instead of your Intel GPU. Your processor would also tell if your laptop is meant for gaming or not.

Nevertheless most laptops are not really meant for gaming. Need proper airflow to cool down all your hardware or else they for sure start to struggle.

my pc is a Republic Gamer so i sure hope it would be made for gaming lmao
How do i set up my Nvidia GPU as the active one?

[MaskMcgee]

Anything called 'Gaming" is generally a scam to trick idiots who didn't bother to do their research into buying junk.
How about your actual model of CPU, the one component that more than any other will dictate preformance in this game.

[ThisHero]

64bit processor is about as much relevant information as saying im using a processor made in the last ~10 years. can you go into any more detail there? quadcore? 6? 2?

[Banana4Two]

Clean out your fans, and maybe apply some thermal paste.
Also a cooling pad underneath your laptop might help a bit.

[Viper]

Are you speaking of the Asus Republic of Gamers laptops. While some of them are decent. They are still laptops. Laptops struggle to play games. They also run hot since the components are all packed together very closely and generally there is only 1 fan. They can get very hot if your demanding any graphics from them other than the Windows desktop. Which ROG laptop do you have.

[wilky]

I play this game on a gaming laptop just fine. My chip is an i5 (not an i7; the i7s are supposed to overheat worse than the i5). I currently have 16 GB RAM and a 6GB GPU, so I think our laptops are fairly comparable.

My laptop does not get hot, though, when I play. Do you use a cooling fan/pad underneath your laptop? Do you clean out your laptop with like compressed air?

[ThisHero]

"gaming laptop" is just marketing speak. nearly every company puts out an i3 8gbRAM pc as their entry level machine, but this does not make it a gaming laptop in the way anyone even half honest would suggest.

OP, 64bit processors debuted around the turn of the century. im not sure when the last 32bit x86 was sold, but it couldnt have been past 2010. because the rest of your rig seems capable enough i am beginning to suspect your performance issues are processor related.

some clarity would be useful: generation/variant plus clockspeed.