Settings that work great for me for quality and framerate

[Jupix]

Screen resolution: Native (3840 x 2160 x 144hz for me)

Display mode: Fullscreen (Important, it gives +10 % framerate)

Depth of field: Disabled

Global graphics quality: High (it is only a preset, it will change to Custom soon)

Dynamic resolution scale: Disabled

Antialiasing: None (current version as of April 2024, TAA is broken, use below settings when it is eventually fixed:)

TAA settings:
Antialiasing: Custom
- AA method: TAA
- AA quality: High
- AA samples: 4x

Clouds: Disabled

Fog: Disabled

Volumetrics: Disabled

Global illumination quality: Disabled

Reflections quality: Custom
- Transparent reflections: Enabled
- Maximum ray steps: 128

Depth of field: Disabled

Motion blur: Disabled

Shadow quality: High
- Directional shadow resolution: 2048
- Terrain casts shadows: Enabled

Terrain quality settings: Custom
- Subdivisions: 5
- Target patch size: 64

Water quality settings: Custom
- Enable water flow: Enabled
- Maximum tesselation factor: 15
- Tesselation fade start distance: 4000
- Tesselation fade range: 4000

Level of detail: Custom
- LoD distance: 100%
- Cross-fade: Enabled
- Max light count: 16K
- Geometry cache limit: 4 GB
- Strict geometry limit: Disabled

Animation quality: High
- Skinning quality: 4

Texture quality: High
- Mip bias: 0
- Filter mode: Trilinear


5600X / RTX 3090 / 32GB RAM

4K with 80% FSR, 35fps zoomed in, 40-50fps zoomed out.

Copy and adjust for your specs.


EDIT: Remember to restart the game after first adjusting the settings.

EDIT 2: Good settings to lower from here if you have framerate problems would be the sliders under each enabled advanced setting and to disable antialiasing, then reducing the scaler percentage of AMD FSR to 75%, then 60% and then 50% and see which produces an acceptable framerate for you.

EDIT 3: TAA is currently broken, do not use it. Global illumination seems to produce ghosting, disable it or use at your own peril.

Note: this is not a 60fps nor 144hz game (for most people)

[Jupix]

Bumping this once in case someone finds this helpful.

[shriverma461]

That’s work great, thanks for that👍

[Sullen Secret]

Under Global Illumination, I reduced Ray Steps to half and got better performance. Also, Second Pass is disabled. Everything looks fine.

[Caldrin]

Just turning off depth of field makes a massive difference.

[Radimov]

Originally posted by Caldrin:

Just turning off depth of field makes a massive difference.

Besides, who wants depth of field in this game?

[BIG C 90]

GPU usage was at 100 when i lauched the game and started a new game. was getting 60fps in menu and 50 on the map. I changed settings to medium and still getting 50fps and GPU halved its usage so that was good. I only done basics on the map so will see how it goes. [RTX 4070]

[MessengerOfRage]

great, thank you!

[Jupix]

Originally posted by Radimov:

Originally posted by Caldrin:

Just turning off depth of field makes a massive difference.

Besides, who wants depth of field in this game?

Yep and I would say the same for clouds and fog and other things I disabled. Totally pointless in a top down citybuilder game in my opinion. Of course someone else might find them beautiful for photos or whatnot but settings don't have to be permanent, can enable that stuff when needed for beauty shots but otherwise keep them disabled for fps.

[Vimes]

Thanks, I'll try these settings later when I have a little more time.

I have a 4k monitor
4080 GPU - latest drivers
12700k at 5.1Ghz
32GB RAM.

At default settings, it is like a powerpoint slideshow presentation.

I do wish that the in game UI could be made smaller.

Trees seem to flicker at a certain distance.

[Jupix]

Originally posted by Vimes:

Thanks, I'll try these settings later when I have a little more time.

I have a 4k monitor
4080 GPU - latest drivers
12700k at 5.1Ghz
32GB RAM.

At default settings, it is like a powerpoint slideshow presentation.

I do wish that the in game UI could be made smaller.

Trees seem to flicker at a certain distance.

I wish also that the UI scaling option went below 100%, for 4K resolution something like 75% or 50% would be nice and is available in other games.

I also had severe flickering in the game and it went away after I restarted the game. Mine wasn't trees though, it was detail geometry (only). For example fences. By disabling shadows or adjusting LoD or bilinear/trilinear filtering there was no improvement, which was surprising because those usually cause flickering, but then it disappeared after a restart.

I also find that in this game native resolution is pretty choppy, then 80% scaling with AMD FSR doesn't quite produce quite as nice image as in some other games, probably because the sharpening of FSR can't be adjusted, but enabling TAA on top of FSR helped a lot to smoothe the image.

[gimlikos84]

I love volumetric clouds.

[Arsalaan]

Originally posted by Vimes:

Thanks, I'll try these settings later when I have a little more time.

I have a 4k monitor
4080 GPU - latest drivers
12700k at 5.1Ghz
32GB RAM.

At default settings, it is like a powerpoint slideshow presentation.

I do wish that the in game UI could be made smaller.

Trees seem to flicker at a certain distance.

Do yourself a favour and start by disabling motion blur and depth of field, and i guarantee that alone will make it run a lot better. I am on a laptop with a low watt 3080 and its running fine at 2k with 16gb ram

[Vimes]

Originally posted by Arsalaan:

Originally posted by Vimes:

Thanks, I'll try these settings later when I have a little more time.

I have a 4k monitor
4080 GPU - latest drivers
12700k at 5.1Ghz
32GB RAM.

At default settings, it is like a powerpoint slideshow presentation.

I do wish that the in game UI could be made smaller.

Trees seem to flicker at a certain distance.

Do yourself a favour and start by disabling motion blur and depth of field, and i guarantee that alone will make it run a lot better. I am on a laptop with a low watt 3080 and its running fine at 2k with 16gb ram

Thanks, will do. 👍

When I get back to my PC at least I have some options

Thanks

[motogopher]

Where are these settings? They don't appear under the normal settings menu.

[vfr]

Originally posted by motogopher:

Where are these settings? They don't appear under the normal settings menu.

It's under Graphics/Advanced.