This game vs Cities Skyline perfomance-wise?

[MagnusA]

A while ago I bought Cities Skyline as a popular an complex city builder. But I got disappointed because my computer has performace issues with it. Stuttering and low FPS made it almost unplayable even without any DLC enabled.

From Youtube and these forum I think I have a pretty good grasp of the gameplay, complexity, micromanagement and very steep learning curve of this game. But how does it compare performace-wise to for example the popular CS game? My computer do meet the minium system requirement but there are no "recommended specs" on the Store page... Is this game GPU hungry? Memory demanding?

[forzion]

The game is mainly CPU dependant for calculations and the graphics can be adjusted but you need at least a dedicated GPU. Then the more RAM you have the better. There are people playing this on slow machines but the hardware can limit you as the more workers and vehicles you get the more your frames will drop. But there is nothing wrong with playing with less workers and spreading your industries a bit. Just keep in mind that the FPS can easily drop below 20 if there will be too many workers and moving objects in your republic.

[TheAmishStig]

When I first started playing, I had:

FX-8150
8gb RAM
Radeon 7850

And would start dropping frames at around the 20k population range, especially on the games where I had dense cities and lots of vehicles in motion.

[DeltaDude]

Originally posted by forzion:

The game is mainly CPU dependant for calculations and the graphics can be adjusted but you need at least a dedicated GPU. Then the more RAM you have the better. There are people playing this on slow machines but the hardware can limit you as the more workers and vehicles you get the more your frames will drop. But there is nothing wrong with playing with less workers and spreading your industries a bit. Just keep in mind that the FPS can easily drop below 20 if there will be too many workers and moving objects in your republic.

My observations show that the game is very bad performance wise when it comes to rendering lots of small objects in one space. For example pipe truss and crop field fences can cause a huge FPS drop for me in particular (the developer responded to me on this and is currently working on optimizing these). I believe most buildings and vehicles have LOD systems so they don't present too much of a problem.

For me rendering these complex shapes causes the most problems even with a good GPU. Otherwise the CPU side of the game is pretty good compared to other city-builders. Multithreading was added a few patches ago so you can have a very large republic if you have a good machine and keep things spaced out.

If you have major performance issues... I got mine more stable by keeping oil and heating pipe segments as close to the ground as possible, and keeping all my crop fields centralized somewhere remote so I don't have to render them on screen at the same time as my big cities. Optimization has improved a lot since release and will probably get better in the future.

[Marius]

The main problem is this game uses only 2 cores in your CPU, Skylines uses all of them (therefore better fps since it optimizes your CPU use). In the other hand, graphics are less demanding here but you will need "some" memory in your card, also some RAM.. the more the better.

Perfomance therefore might be worst, more when your map get big in terms of population and vehicles.

Anyway this game is much much better than Skylines :) So there is your choice, I currently play it even with 10 FPS or less in a very big map with many mods, but I am quite hardcore :D

[Myricaulus]

I have the feeling, that my workshop items are causing my game to constantly be around 20FPS although i do have quite an high end pc. But i do have already around 150.000 Inhabitants, so its okay. I once got a detailed FPS display with F5, but i dont know exactly how i did that. What i know is, that the display of the map can eat quite a big chunk of hardware resources.