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slut for ghostface has Cities: Skylines

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:07am

Time Acceleration is Broken

No amount of mashing the 1/2/3 keys or clicking the arrows in game will make time speed up, and it can be painful just sitting there slowly waiting for ♥♥♥♥ to happen. I've reinstalled two or three times and it takes restarting a game several times more in order to get one that will let me speed up time, however when I booted up into the game after saving, it was broken again.

Anyone have any ideas as to what this could be? I haven't been able to find anyone else with the same problem.

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boxman

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:12am

I know with a low end pc or with really huge cities that it really wont do much anymore since it is limited by what speed your cpu can handle to simulate at.
But that does not seem to be your problem if restarting game somehow fixes it.

slut for ghostface has Cities: Skylines

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:15am

Originally posted by boxman:
I know with a low end pc or with really huge cities that it really wont do much anymore since it is limited by what speed your cpu can handle to simulate at.
But that does not seem to be your problem if restarting game somehow fixes it.

No, I've got a high end gaming laptop, and my city wans't over 30K people before the time accel broke again.

Patrick

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:27am

If i play on my PC (i5, 8gb, gtx 760), it speed up fine. With my laptop (i3, 4gb, gt630m), speed up didnt work. So computer spec does affect speed.

Spooky

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:34am

uh? i5 ivy bridge here and no problem to acc. the speed. Sounds strange to me anyway.

slut for ghostface has Cities: Skylines

Mar 16, 2015 @ 12:55am

Originally posted by Diepvien004b:
If i play on my PC (i5, 8gb, gtx 760), it speed up fine. With my laptop (i3, 4gb, gt630m), speed up didnt work. So computer spec does affect speed.

I've got an i7 with a 4gb graphics card and 16gbs of RAM so I certainly hope it's nothing to do wigth computer speed. My laptop should be able to handle the game just fine.

Khalek

Mar 16, 2015 @ 2:43am

ppl need to relise that its not exclusively based of the rig you are playing on

SdcDev

Mar 16, 2015 @ 2:56am

Originally posted by RadioInvader:
No amount of mashing the 1/2/3 keys or clicking the arrows in game will make time speed up, and it can be painful just sitting there slowly waiting for ♥♥♥♥ to happen. I've reinstalled two or three times and it takes restarting a game several times more in order to get one that will let me speed up time, however when I booted up into the game after saving, it was broken again.

Anyone have any ideas as to what this could be? I haven't been able to find anyone else with the same problem.

The biggest factor is the amount of objects. think of it this way. you have lets say 50k citizens, witht the potential for at least 30k vehicles maybe more, hundreds of buildings, and the water physics. It has to run, position, status & other calculations for ever object per second, then you are confused when you ask it to go three times as fast. same happens in games like TS3, more content=slower processing.

slut for ghostface has Cities: Skylines

Mar 16, 2015 @ 3:04am

Originally posted by SdcDev:
Originally posted by RadioInvader:
No amount of mashing the 1/2/3 keys or clicking the arrows in game will make time speed up, and it can be painful just sitting there slowly waiting for ♥♥♥♥ to happen. I've reinstalled two or three times and it takes restarting a game several times more in order to get one that will let me speed up time, however when I booted up into the game after saving, it was broken again.

Anyone have any ideas as to what this could be? I haven't been able to find anyone else with the same problem.

The biggest factor is the amount of objects. think of it this way. you have lets say 50k citizens, witht the potential for at least 30k vehicles maybe more, hundreds of buildings, and the water physics. It has to run, position, status & other calculations for ever object per second, then you are confused when you ask it to go three times as fast. same happens in games like TS3, more content=slower processing.

No, this is a problem that's happening when I first boot up a new game. If I start with a new map, and I try to accelerate time, it won't. Even though there is absolutely nothing on the map yet. I've tried lowering graphics to nil and reinstalling and nothing works. So far I seem to be the only one who's having this problem and not have it relate to computer speed or graphics.

SdcDev

Mar 16, 2015 @ 3:14am

Originally posted by RadioInvader:
Originally posted by SdcDev:

The biggest factor is the amount of objects. think of it this way. you have lets say 50k citizens, witht the potential for at least 30k vehicles maybe more, hundreds of buildings, and the water physics. It has to run, position, status & other calculations for ever object per second, then you are confused when you ask it to go three times as fast. same happens in games like TS3, more content=slower processing.
No, this is a problem that's happening when I first boot up a new game. If I start with a new map, and I try to accelerate time, it won't. Even though there is absolutely nothing on the map yet. I've tried lowering graphics to nil and reinstalling and nothing works. So far I seem to be the only one who's having this problem and not have it relate to computer speed or graphics.

Then thats certainly strange. Must be some kind of hardware problem though as I fail to see how any kind of glitch could be occuring. Perhaps you have other processes soaking the power up in the background? Did you try a lower Res?

Failing those, try contacting the devs...

Last edited by SdcDev; Mar 16, 2015 @ 3:17am

hiro_x

Mar 16, 2015 @ 3:26am

You are not alone. Works fine for a few minutes and then it stops even if I'm just starting. Also playing on a laptop

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slut for ghostface has Cities: Skylines

Mar 16, 2015 @ 3:44am

Originally posted by Geff:
You are not alone. Works fine for a few minutes and then it stops even if I'm just starting. Also playing on a laptop

It's relieving knowing that I'm not the only one... What's annoying is that because there seem to be so few people having the problem is that it's not even on the official list of known bugs. I will have to try contacting the devs, and see if they can figure it out.

Originally posted by SdcDev:
Originally posted by RadioInvader:
No, this is a problem that's happening when I first boot up a new game. If I start with a new map, and I try to accelerate time, it won't. Even though there is absolutely nothing on the map yet. I've tried lowering graphics to nil and reinstalling and nothing works. So far I seem to be the only one who's having this problem and not have it relate to computer speed or graphics.
Then thats certainly strange. Must be some kind of hardware problem though as I fail to see how any kind of glitch could be occuring. Perhaps you have other processes soaking the power up in the background? Did you try a lower Res?

Failing those, try contacting the devs...

Yeah, thanks. I will try a couple of last ditch efforts to fix it myself, taking your advice, and then try contacting the devs. It's bothering me that it's not even on the list of known bugs, so for all I know there won't be a patch fixing the problem, if it is a game problem. However considering this is a brand new laptop and every other game I own works perfectly fine on it... I doubt it's a hardware issue. If it was, I would likely be having problem with the multiple other games I have.

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hiro_x

Mar 16, 2015 @ 4:00am

I even tried to put it at the lowest possible settings but it still stops accelerating

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SdcDev

Mar 16, 2015 @ 5:37am

Originally posted by RadioInvader:
Originally posted by Geff:
You are not alone. Works fine for a few minutes and then it stops even if I'm just starting. Also playing on a laptop
It's relieving knowing that I'm not the only one... What's annoying is that because there seem to be so few people having the problem is that it's not even on the official list of known bugs. I will have to try contacting the devs, and see if they can figure it out.

Originally posted by SdcDev:
Then thats certainly strange. Must be some kind of hardware problem though as I fail to see how any kind of glitch could be occuring. Perhaps you have other processes soaking the power up in the background? Did you try a lower Res?

Failing those, try contacting the devs...
Yeah, thanks. I will try a couple of last ditch efforts to fix it myself, taking your advice, and then try contacting the devs. It's bothering me that it's not even on the list of known bugs, so for all I know there won't be a patch fixing the problem, if it is a game problem. However considering this is a brand new laptop and every other game I own works perfectly fine on it... I doubt it's a hardware issue. If it was, I would likely be having problem with the multiple other games I have.

Yeah, let me know how you get on. They will investigate it if you ask but without putting a message forward, they won't be looking for it and you won't get your fix. its worth noting that I7 processors actually perform less good than I5's in the gaming department. The way I7's are made for some reason makes them better encoder/decoders than gaming chipsets. Worth asking them about the problem if you think this is unlikely to be it though :) keep us informed!

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