City Skylines 2 specs

[Pure_Awesome30]

Anyone know what the true minimum specs will be to play CS2? I see on Steam it say an i7-4790 chip or something close to that. However when I look this up that chip is from 2014 and when I compared it to my i5-11600KF the i5 out performed the older i7 in all benchmarks. The i5 being a newer chip, 2021, can out perform the minimum i7 they recommend. Just wondering if the game will throw a code and not run due to minimum requirements not met. Anyone know anything further on this topic?

[Tsubame ⭐]

No one has played the game yet, so what I can provide is an educated guess: look at the game's recommended specs, and then aim for something better than that, to accomodate future updates, DLCs, and mods.

CPU wise the game should not be too different than CS1, though no limits may place much higher strains than the current game if you are the sort of player that likes to build big.

I do suspect the main thing to watch will be the GPU due to its improved graphics/textures - i.e. 2080 RTX recommended.

[NameInvalid]

引用自 Pure_Awesome30：

Just wondering if the game will throw a code and not run due to minimum requirements not met. Anyone know anything further on this topic?

you overthinking it. There is no such weird mechanism.

As long as you on proper gaming capable hardware there isn't needs of worrying. CPU is just one of element, RAM and GPU also matter. If you have at least 16GB RAM + not bottom of the barrel dedicated GPU, it will be fine. Your CPU is pretty new so there's nothing to worry about.

the game WILL run on even older hardware. The listed spec is simply a references, and no dev list anything older than gen4 core-I because it's older than some gamers today...

[Half Phased]

Also worth noting, an 11th gen i5 beats or rivals a 4th gen i7 on all of the hard numbers such as core counts, clock speed and cache… and benefits from about 7 years worth of architecture improvements.

Which is needless to say, the 11th gen i5 smashes the 4th gen i7 on actual benchmarks.

About the only thing that the i7 beats your CPU on is graphics, but that’s as a KF chip doesn’t have inbuilt graphics. But you should have a GPU, so that’s not a concern.

As a good rule of thumb for intel CPUs, an i5 will equal or beat a previous gen i7.

[MarkJohnson]

引用自 Pure_Awesome30：

Anyone know what the true minimum specs will be to play CS2? I see on Steam it say an i7-4790 chip or something close to that. However when I look this up that chip is from 2014 and when I compared it to my i5-11600KF the i5 out performed the older i7 in all benchmarks. The i5 being a newer chip, 2021, can out perform the minimum i7 they recommend.

You're missing a lot of information on that comparison. Mainly, i9, i7, i5, i3, Pentium, Celeron, etc. are more of feature sets, not a performance measurement.

Plus, an i7-4790 is a 4th gen item, around 2014 and is also a DDR3/PCIe 3.0 system.

The i5-11600KF is an 11th gen part. so you're getting 7-years of advancement on technologies. considering a new CPU gets around a 17% performance increase each year, That is more than double the performance over that 7-years. when you compound that 17% every year, it is more like triple the performance over those 7 years.

I'd be very, very worried if your newer 11600KF wasn't blowing the doors off of your very old 4790.

Just wondering if the game will throw a code and not run due to minimum requirements not met. Anyone know anything further on this topic?

No, the game isn't going to block out users to their game. Just like CS1 had unsupported Intel iGPUs. The game ran just fine, but you would hit a performance wall at some point in the game.

At release I'm sure the 4790 will play the game to fruition of the vanilla game. But workshop will likely kill it's performance quickly. Just like Intel iGPU systems did in CS1.

CS2 should at ;east fully support 8-Core (16-threads) CPUs, as this is what consoles support. I'm sure we may need 12-core (24-thread) CPUs with workshop for larger cities.

If CS2's base game is 5x bigger than CS1, then I see no reason that the whole modded CS2 game reaching 5x bigger or more than CS1,

But, i7, i5 and other monikers are meaningless things in the long run.