Will Cities Skylines Run on My PC?

[walkingwiki686]

I'm thinking of getting cities skylines during the steam sale and am wondering if my laptop can handle it.
My Laptop runs Windows 11 on a 64 bit operating system.
I have 8GB of RAM
My CPU processor is an Intel Core i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 GHz
I have a total of 118GB of storage space on my computer, currently 22.3GB are free, but I can probably get 35-40GB available by deleting a few unnecessary downloads/mods
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620

[CyberVibes]

TBH i wouldn't even try with that rig as you don't meet minimum system requirements, you might be able to run the base game but would be very limited after that.

Here are the Cities: Skylines System Requirements (Minimum)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 4 GB
VIDEO CARD: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 512 MB
PIXEL SHADER: 4.0
VERTEX SHADER: 4.0
OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
FREE DISK SPACE: 4 GB

[buda atum]

The base game ran on my 2008 4gb no dedicated GPU i7 laptop but very slowly. It's likely not the same base game as now though, but I'd expect the current game to run on yours just frustratingly slow.

Personally, I wouldn't buy the game for your system unless it was dirt cheap so I can try it or planned to upgrade to a better pc. Even if it did run you'd be frustrated pretty quick.

[hankberube]

i wish i still had my old I7 8700k i would sell to u. hope you get a new CPU soon.

[MarkJohnson]

That CPU has too old of iGPU, plus 8GB RAM is going to be used up from the i9ntegrated graphics having no memory, so it will take a lot of RAM.

On the plus side, it will run on the laptop, but don't expect more than 2 or 3 tiles of city before it starts lagging badly.

[Retroactive Effect X]

I would recommend you buy sim city 4 instead if you are not planning on a pc upgrade. All modern city builders if they run on that laptop are going to run at a crawl.

[dan0812]

If you can add more RAM it would be worth a try - you can always refund after <2hrs if it's bad.

[CyberVibes]

Originally posted by dan0812:

If you can add more RAM it would be worth a try - you can always refund after <2hrs if it's bad.

Personally i think his money would be better served by saving up for a new machine.

[de.abacus]

Originally posted by CyberVibes:

Originally posted by dan0812:

If you can add more RAM it would be worth a try - you can always refund after <2hrs if it's bad.

Personally i think his money would be better served by saving up for a new machine.

+1

[Dimensional One]

You should be able to run the base game until you get to about 20-30k population which isn't very deep into the game... After that even without mods/assets you'd be constantly having to pause the game every 5-10 minutes and let the game catch up... It wouldn't be impossible but it would be very frustrating. And that would get slower as you got closer to unlocking all levels and monuments in the game. Probably unplayable before you could.

Depending on how much the game costs it's really gonna be up to you. Personally I'd wait for a while whether it's on sale or not. because they are about to release a bunch more DLC'S with "free content" that will be added to the game making it even more bloated for lesser pc's.

Depending on whether they actually give us better ingame tools or optimization, which right now doesn't seem very likely, you might want to wait around until cities skylines 2 launches and see if either of them will be better suited to your pc by then

[Xautos]

1.4ghz below the specs and it can't get above 1.2ghz below specs on overlocking it, crappy intel uhd graphics sharing 8gb of ram with the computer system and the graphics. the uhd 620 is actually slower than a gtx 260.

i doubt you'd even get into the game let alone having any frames per second to use. No i wouldn't expect your potato laptop be able to play it and it would likely melt itself trying to.

get a better laptop if you can before thinking about something like CS1.

[beep]

Buy it, install it, run it, refund it :)