will my graphics card and processor be fine

[rune1993]

this is the recommended graphics card specs - Nvidia® GeForce™ RTX 2080 Ti (11GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 XT (16GB) my pc has a Geforce RTX 2070 SUPER dont remember what GB it is whould you say high graphics would be fine or at least 2nd highest.

same with processor this is the recommended for the game - Intel® Core™ i7-9700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 5600X and this is what i got - AMD Ryzen 7 3800x 8-core processor.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von King DaMuncha:

CS1 runs worse on my i9 than my i5 from 2015

hahaha I can slightly relate to that

[vackillers]

I know this is already answered but I think your PC should be able to handle it just fine just not on ultra settings or anything like that. RTX 2070 Super has 8GB VRAM and is one I currently use in my wifes machine who also has a Ryzen 3900x in hers. I do think RAM will be important though so make sure you have plenty, 16GB would be minimum I would aim for personally.

[Willonious]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von sirupflex:

I think you cannot answer the OPs question really. CS1 performance is limited by the CPU single-core performance. Your RTX 4090 must be bored at maybe 20% load and even with a GPU 10x faster, CS1 would not run any better.

As we don't know if CS2 is again CPU single-core limited or not, we don't know what matters with regards to CPU and GPU. If it's CPU single-core performance limited, then GPU power will be much less relevant, at least for larger cities. If CS2 is fully multi-threaded, then the GPU might easily become the bottleneck as long as you have a fast CPU with let's say 8+ cores.

But again, this is all speculation until we know more about the game's performance strategy and until we have seen first benchmarks as well.

This reality makes it difficult for those of us looking to build a PC before the October 24 release (and taking advantage of possible Prime Day deals next month.)

Currently I'm leaning towards an AMD gen 4 build (5700x CPU, RX 6750x GPU), but if CS2 does turn out to be single core dependent like CS1, it might be worth a $300 jump to an AMD gen 5 build (7600x CPU, RX 6800x GPU) since that would be a big single core improvement, and it would allow for (cheaper) future upgrades should they be necessary.

[sirupflex]

If you are focusing on gaming for your PC, I think having the highest possible single-core performance is never wrong in general. If budget allows and you're focused on AMD, you might even consider the 7700X as well, where you get 8 cores and very high single-core performance for simulation games like Cities Skylines.

Of course, that's not the cheapest solution and if there are budget restrictions, then it seems to be that the 7600X might be a better choice for gaming than a 5700X, especially if you are a simulation games fan. Gaming benchmarks usually see the 7600X in a slight lead (for 1080p), although not by much (and often irrelevant) but the ~25% faster single-core performance might make a very welcomed difference for simulation games (it certainly will for games like TPF2 that are single-core performance bound; experienced it with a similar upgrade myself, with Intel CPUs).

Also, it depends for how long that new PC should last. If you plan for rather 4-5 years it might make more sense to go for something like a 7700X (or at least 7600X), if budget allows. If you plan to buy a new one every 2 years anyway, it might make more sense to save the money and go with a 7600X or 5700X, depending on your budget decisions.

Maybe today we get some more insights in the multi-core / single-core topic in the upcoming Dev Diary.

[-Milo-]

would the 10th gen intel core i5-10400 work with CS2

[sirupflex]

Should work fine, it's above the minimum requirement and slightly below the recommended. Certainly, with large cities you will hit limits faster than with more recent 12th / 13th Gen. CPUs and nobody can currently tell you how much sooner this will happen.

[-Milo-]

thanks so much
cause im deciding should i buy the deluxe edition or not

[Willonious]

According to this article yesterday following the traffic AI diary, there will be multi-core support: https://www.neowin.net/news/this-is-how-cities-skylines-2-vastly-improves-on-the-original-games-traffic-ai/

[Willonious]

Cities Skylines makes up about 80% of my game playing time, so really, I'm building for CS2. It does seem like moving up to the AM5 platform might be a wiser choice now, and the 7600x would be the cheapest way to get me there (about $200 more than my AM4 plan). Down the line I'd have the option of upgrading, and would possibly only need to get a stronger CPU, instead of a whole motherboard, ram, cpu overhaul.

[sirupflex]

Seems like a reasonable approach to me.

In general, with the CS2 simulation making use of multi-core CPUs, I may speculate that the GPU becomes much more important for CS2 (in relation to the CPU) than it was for CS1. Means, with a "reasonably fast" 6-8 (or more) core CPU, the GPU likely gets busy in larger cities as well. You could also derive that from the recommended quite high RTX 2080 TI requirement. At least for 1440p / 2160p resolutions. Would be my 2 cent guess, at least.

[Samfisher]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Willonious:

Cities Skylines makes up about 80% of my game playing time, so really, I'm building for CS2. It does seem like moving up to the AM5 platform might be a wiser choice now, and the 7600x would be the cheapest way to get me there (about $200 more than my AM4 plan). Down the line I'd have the option of upgrading, and would possibly only need to get a stronger CPU, instead of a whole motherboard, ram, cpu overhaul.

Realistically if you're building a new system on the first gen AM5 products right now, you'll likely be replacing the Motherboard and RAM when you upgrade your CPU as well as you'll have access to far faster RAM in the future, and your motherboard may not support it. As it is AM5 boards currently has issues with supporting faster RAM.

[Fiduval]

I guess it will be okay for me too, I have a 1080ti and a AMD Ryzen 7 2700X... It's actually a good machine even 7 years after and I can run almost everything in a good way.

I was worried when I saw that recommended specs were so high but that's because of Ray Tracing... And I don't mind not playing with RT.

Some things are telling me that I will have to change my machine because with UE5, recommended and even sometimes minimum specs are getting higher and higher. But I hope I can last 3/4 more years.
10 years for a machine is a very good age.