AMD CPU/GPU Users, what's your launch experience been like?

[Hehaho15]

So I'll preface this with, I had a Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon RX6600, 500GB WD Blue SN570 M.2, and 32GB DDR4 RAM... And I was never even able to see the main menu.

I've since refunded it since I'm not confident that they won't up the minimum and recommended specs again beyond my CPU & GPU being covered.

It seems obvious that there's some weird hardware disparity between issues, even after the people able to get into the game make some graphics setting adjustments... I'm wondering if anyone else with AMD CPU/GPU had critical issues.

[smooney3]

5800X and 7900XTX. No issues so far and decent fps at 5120x1440. Mostly high settings.

[Caldrin]

7800x3d
7900xtx
32gb Ddr5
Game on fast NVME OS on separate fast NVME.
Running at 4k default detected setting I was getting about 25fps.

With some tweaking and turning off a few things and everything else on high I now get 60 to 80fps.

[SilentScav]

Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 22621) (22621.ni_release.220506-1250)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor (12 CPUs), ~4.7GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Dedicated Memory: 24156 MB
Monitor Model: Odyssey G40B
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080

New city plays at 60fps, seldom dips into the low 50's. At around 5k citizens it tends to play at low 50's, dips into low 40's. I notice the textures keep popping in an out, going from high to very low resolution and holding at low res more time that at high.

[Manadeath]

Ryzen 7 5800
Gtx 3060 ti
16 gig ram 3200

getting 60 fps by using 1920x1080 resolution on medium settings. Think most of the complaints are people trying to run game at 4k with everything turn on, but using a toaster for a PC

[Nutz Out For Peanut]

5800x, 7800xt, 64gigram - 1440 Ultrawide FSR 90% TAA, Global Illumination turned off, shadows medium. 35-80 fps.

[poida84]

Runs great for me no issues with crashes or bugs yet.

Ryzen 7 7600X
RX 6700XT 12gb
1TB Samsung 990 pro M2 SSD
Corsair 32gb ram 5600mhz CL36
i have most of my settings on high @1080p, with some of the after affects disabled (Depth of field, volumetric, motion blur)

i'am only up to around 10,000 pop runs around 55-65FPS
i have loaded the 100k pop city too for testing avg 40-50 does get down to avg 30 when zoomed into main CBD area.

[DutchEllie]

I might not be representative. I run Linux with a Threadripper 3960X, 128GB of ram and an RX 7900 XTX. Works just fine for me lol

[Sqwishy]

I7 12700k 32gb ddr4 with 3080
Cant get past the main menu screen boss.
The game makes my PC lose all GPU drivers. All 3 screens go black and you have to force a reboot to get it back. Awesome game. 10/10 would recommend.

[linusno]

on a amd 5950x, radeon 7900xtx 64gb ram 1440p reolution and running on linux.

when tested on a save with 100k population I get 25 - 40 fps on high setting depending on how fast I pan and scroll in the city.

If I apply these settings https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17efe6b/your_performance_guide_and_psa_for_cs_ii/ I get around 60fps with occasional drops down to 50

If I set level of detail to medium I loose maybe 5 fps

[Drachma]

Overall it's ok with some compromises.

In the game's main menu my gpu utilization went up to 99%, which is bad for a main menu especially with 53 fps.
Deactivating depth of field was an instant solution. Utilization went down to 45% and fps went up to 60 (limited by driver).

While playing the game I had 60fps most of the time, but the gpu utilization was still a bit too high for my taste, so I set the overall graphics quality from high to mid. This took more stress of the gpu utilization and I guess I leave it there.
I try to find out more hardware demanding features.

Hardware: 7900XTX, 5800X3D, 32GB 3200Mhz

[pgnonick]

I upgraded my AM4 system from Ryzen 2600 to Ryzen 5800x3D and my Nvidia RTX 2070 to an ASROCK Challenger 7800 XT. The last 1.5 months easy playing all games on 3440x1440 highest settings with good FPS. 32 GB RAM and NVME SSD.

But CS2 is my biggest challenge :D

At first start I thought my GPU is dying in the Main Menu! FANS were spinning up as hell and HotSport Temp greater than 90 degrees. Utilization at 100%. I went into Adrenalin and reduced the power consumption on CS2 over -10% and set Radeon Chill between 30 and 50 FPS. After this utilization was still 100% and no FPS loss, but a more silent and cool system. HotSport now on 70-80 degrees, much better.

After this adventure I downloaded the 120000 pops sample save from gamester and started tweaking the settings. Mostly I did the same what were suggested by influencers, Paradox and the people here in the forum. Deactivated 3 options. Rest on high. Changed anti aliasing settings and reduced detail depth to 35%.

Now I have on 3440x1440 mostly high, 35-50 FPS in a 120000 pops city. It is looking fine and I hope, there will come some improvements on AMD driver side and the optimizations by Colossal Orders.

I started then a new game and I had fun last evening to play and will continue today :)

BUT the current status of the game is terrible and extra 6 months will be better for this game.

[Ember]

R5 3600 + RX 6800 XT + 16GB
I am runing the game on Linux and am having no problems whatsoever. Performance is completely fine for my standards even after 6 hours of playing (graphics settings on high, this is not a game i ever expected or needed to run at 60FPS anyway), no crashes or whatever.

[Cookie]

For any Radeon users that have hard crashes or forced PC reboot, lower the power target in Adrenaline by 5-10% will stabilize the power surge that this game creates at initial map loading. My first boot up of the game hard rebooted my PC with 7900XTX, lowered the power target and it's been smooth sailing ever since.

[Jez]

ryzen 7700x, radeon 7900xtx and 32GB DDR5, Game installed on NVME.

No issues running at 4k with some settings like DOF and motion blur off. Took me about 15minutes to play with settings to get a stable 30fps which I feel is fine for this sort of game, especially at launch.

[Smaqx]

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.59 GHz // mostly around 60-65 °C running at 35% workload.
Nvidia Gerforce RTX 2080 Titan // running at 95% workload.
4x16GB RAM G.SKILL Aegis DDR4-3200 CL16 32GB K2 SW

Additionally I disabled Cloud Qualtiy, Fog, Depth of Field, and Motion blur. Animation Qualtity set to Mid. Overall still enabled Graphic settings are set to High, resp. the High-Preset was used and then altered.
I'm now running at about 45-60 FPS depending on what I'm doing, but gameplay isn't really impacted at all.

I understand that it doesn't work the same for everyones systems, but I've seen people with far better equipment than me complain about performance. Ofc my machine is reaching it's limits as well, and considering there are many updates and DLCs to come, I'll definitely have to make some Upgrades.

For now though, if you're experiencing known issues, I highly recommend changing said settings. I previously had about 30 FPS, and with some graphics modifications, I was able to almost double it.
Good luck