Fear of missing out

[Kompaktive]

While others were debating how big the map could be, how realistic it could be, etc., I was excessively worried about whether my laptop would be able to run the game at all. The minimum system requirements caused me to fear missing out on the game. What about you guys?

Ryzen 7 5800H
RTX 3050TI (laptop)
16GB RAM

[Costarring]

I wasn't....

Ryzen 5 5600X
RX6600
32GB DDR4
500GB M.2 drive
Winblows 10

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Hugh]

Are you able to play a 25 tile game in CS1?

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

Originally posted by Kompaktive:

While others were debating how big the map could be, how realistic it could be, etc., I was excessively worried about whether my laptop would be able to run the game at all. The minimum system requirements caused me to fear missing out on the game. What about you guys?

Ryzen 7 5800H
RTX 3050TI (laptop)
16GB RAM

Lowering the resolution to 1024 and switching graphics to the minimum will help you + playing on main grid power, not on battery.

Perhaps there will be a mod that can reduce the default map to 10% -20% of its size for you.
Maybe there will be other mods that reduce simulation values or lower their refresh rates, to save on cpu calculations - Especially the traffic puts a big burden on gamers cpu`s.

Having 32gb ram in your system would also help.

Playing Cities Skylines 1 with your system could be a good practical test for you, to see how things are. Good luck :)

[Kompaktive]

Originally posted by Hugh:

Are you able to play a 25 tile game in CS1?

I don't play with mods, but 60k population has slowed down the simulation a bit.

[Hugh]

Originally posted by Kompaktive:

Originally posted by Hugh:

Are you able to play a 25 tile game in CS1?

I don't play with mods, but 60k population has slowed down the simulation a bit.

Well then CS2 is likely to slow down your game a bit more as cs2 starts out at about the level you are at now. You could if you wish get CS2 and be able to enjoy particle benefits of playing with mods while still claiming to play vanilla but you could do the same thing in CS1. There is in fact very little that you can do with CS2 that can not be achieved equally well with CS1.

They have of course lifted the hardcoded limits in CS2 but in your case that doesn't much matter as with 16Gb RAM you are likely to run out of memory, even with a 3x pagefile, before the limits would kick in.

I wouldn't be in any hurry to rush to the register with the 49,00 in hand were I you. I'd wait to see if there was anything I could do with CS2 that I couldn't achieve with CS1. But that's just me and I'm running i9 with 64Gb. And I'll drop more than 49.00 on my way to pick the morning mail.