AMD Rygen with GPU built in.....possible to run game?

[wee_peem]

Futher to my previous posting re: specification for a new build.

Seent the AMD CPU that has graphics built in.
Im led to believe that you can assign memory from RAM over to this.

Assuming I have 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and assign maybe 6GB, keeping 10GB for everything else. Is it possible to 'play' the game.....maybe not at maxxed out settings, but something above Low or Off!!

Yes i know it would be best to forget this 'cheaper build' option and get dedicated graphics card, but im not hardcore gamer wanting super dooper blistering performance. Just average joe with limited budget.

cheers

[UR|wRÅR]

You won't get a "super dooper blistering performance" even on the official recommended settings. I doubt you will get any performance on any integrated GPU.
Also, I doubt you can assign more than 2 GB or so to an integrated GPU.

[wee_peem]

thanks for that....

what would you suggest as a requirement then?? some people say 1050 Ti will be ok.
So many options!

[CwipsyWispyChips]

Cities Skylines has pretty bad GPU optimization. I can barely pull 15 fps on a 1050 ti in larger cities, and I barely use any mods. However, the lower graphics settings look OK for Skylines, which the 2200g could definitely pull off at 20fps.

[UR|wRÅR]

1050 Ti is not that much faster than integrated ones... I wonder if it's much faster that the official recommended 660.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by wee_peem:

Futher to my previous posting re: specification for a new build.

Seent the AMD CPU that has graphics built in.
Im led to believe that you can assign memory from RAM over to this.

Assuming I have 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and assign maybe 6GB, keeping 10GB for everything else. Is it possible to 'play' the game.....maybe not at maxxed out settings, but something above Low or Off!!

Yes i know it would be best to forget this 'cheaper build' option and get dedicated graphics card, but im not hardcore gamer wanting super dooper blistering performance. Just average joe with limited budget.

cheers

I actually have a AMD R3 2200G I am building for my nephew. It is doing surprisingly well. I can stay above 20FPS most of the time. No workshop though.

I made a chart of performance and it is getting decent performance up to 9-tile cities and 250k population..

The AMD R5 2400G would be a better option as it has hyperthreading and more GPU cores.

Then you can switch out to a dedicated graphics card later if you can't afford one now.

Same for CPU, you can upgrade it to a better one later.

I'd recommend high speed RAM. DDR4-2933MHzz or faster. I have DDR4-3200MHz It defaults to 2400MHz and it can lag a lot as your city grown. But with 2933MHz the lag is almost gone, then a small bump in GPU speed (1.3GHz) the lag disappears.

Right now I'm in the process of testing GPU at 1.5GHz and ram at 3400MHz and CPU at 3.8GHz.

Overclocking is simple if you stay at a small bump in speed. And it will make a huge difference.

I was just using this simple guide and it worked great.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1579-overclocking-guide-ryzen-3-2200g/

Now that I'm done testing in the software app, I'm now testing in the motherboard BIOS for more fine tuning. But the gains are minimal over the software app. It really squeezes out a lot of performance.

I'd recommend a decent cooler. I got the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo

But the 2200g or 2400g would be good option if on a budget and a good option to see if you like Cities: Skylines enough to warrant a further upgrade.