This is what the game looks like with a RTX 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF in 2k

[Nero]

"Map;
- Mountain Village

Settings;
- Everything is set to high except Level of Detail which is set to Low, 1440p resolution.

Hardware specs;
- 3080, 32 GB ram, I5-12600KF."

He does have more ram but otherwise this is what you can expect if you have recommended specs. Looks great to me. His city isn't huge yet but performance looks fine. Can turn some stuff down if you have a lesser card. I wouldn't even try on anything less than a GTX 10 series despite minimum being a GTX 970. Also I think RAM is very important so 16gb is probably what you need minimum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfBxCbksHI

[gab3x]

This is roughly performance what you might expect from CS1 but with much better graphics and more complex, advanced simulation. Good news is this will most likely improve.

I keep banging on about this but I am still playing CS1 and with i913900k/4080/64gb RAM I still get 10-20fps on a very large city and seldom above 30 on smaller.

Yet FPS isn't important and different rules apply. Above 30fps there is really not much gain practically speaking.

[Foulcher]

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

[Noody]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

Cartoony? Really? I would actually say the complete opposite. It looks too realistic, bland and boring. A bit of stylization, like in your example of SC5, would have been nice and would solve a few performance issues as well. I don't understand why people want things to be hyperrealistic nowadays. It ages poorly.

Nevertheless, I believe mods will improve this game a lot, like it did for CS1. Maybe there even will be texture packs, that'll make it all look a bit nicer.

Looking forward to the release today anyway.

[Nero]

Originally posted by gab3x:

This is roughly performance what you might expect from CS1 but with much better graphics and more complex, advanced simulation. Good news is this will most likely improve.

I keep banging on about this but I am still playing CS1 and with i913900k/4080/64gb RAM I still get 10-20fps on a very large city and seldom above 30 on smaller.

Yet FPS isn't important and different rules apply. Above 30fps there is really not much gain practically speaking.

I thought CS1 scaled the simulation speed as the city got bigger so frame rate stayed high.

[🅳🅴🅽🅶🅺🅴]

I want to play with Steam Deck xD

[Nero]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

I actually really like SimCity and yes it looked very very pretty for its time. I still play it sometimes. The downside to its graphics were the extremely small plot sizes which pissed everyone off. Personally I didn't mind it because it led to more tweaking and the way the game was balanced you can spend days tweaking that little plot.

One thing I didn't like about skylines one is the simulation was so shallow that once you satisfied an areas needs you never needed to touch that neighborhood again as long as it had traffic access. SimCity was a much deeper simulation and Skylines 2 is going to have a lot of those elements in it.

[Foulcher]

Originally posted by Nero:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

One thing I didn't like about skylines one is the simulation was so shallow that once you satisfied an areas needs you never needed to touch that neighborhood again as long as it had traffic access.

I have the exact same feeling, CS1 has never really been satisfactory for me in terms of management.

Yes I know, SC4 relied on macro calculation and it had some flaws but it felt more rewarding, multivariate and dynamic.

[Nero]

From what I have seen the simulation is very good in Skylines 2. There are supply chains, pops have education levels which correspond to their income leading to demand for housing and jobs that match those levels. This will also effect preferred transportation. Crossing my fingers it all works well and engages the player. Don't hear complaints from content creator on this front except from some of the pure design focused creators that would rather have more control and less simulation. Personally I want a simulator first, design tool second, so sounds good to me.

[Cody]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

If you regret purchasing then refund it

[Foulcher]

Originally posted by Cody:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

If you regret purchasing then refund it

I have the same requirements than Nero, sir if sim/management is improved that’s fine.

[General T.Montana Tropic Thunder]

1.21 gigawatts !
Need to put up another solar panel for this game.

[gab3x]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

If this looks in any way better to you then you have a very specific and special sense of aesthetics. Each to their own, beauty is in eye of beholder... and all of that.

[Devio]

Whats wrong with that graf.? People are totaly fu*** nowdays. Jesus. I have the same spec. only i have the I7 processor. So only the losers cry about graf. GO to work and buy better PC.

[lefty1117]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

you don't have to regret anything. Return the game

[wolfpost]

Originally posted by gab3x:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Looks very cartoony and barely an upgrade from CS1 visually. I regret purchasing, I hope that the gameplay will contradict me...

This is SC5 released 10 years ago...

https://youtu.be/5Cb3g04kR-M?feature=shared

If this looks in any way better to you then you have a very specific and special sense of aesthetics. Each to their own, beauty is in eye of beholder... and all of that.

I always felt that the Sim game looked better than the first Skylines game. That being said, Skylines is a far better game by far.