Reached my PC's limit.

[Caz1402]

Reached a population of around 25,000. Made a very detailed city and my pc overheats after a short period of time and auto shuts down now. Very sad. I have decent cooling but I also have a one of the newer Intel CPU's and they tend to run very hot. All my 6 fans are on full whack whilst playing too. A shame really, hopefully in the future it wont require like 100% of all system hardware to be able to run.

[Caz1402]

Intel i7 13600 13th gen 16 core CPU
GTX 3080
24GB DDR5 Ram

If anyone is curious

[[6thAL]Vol.kaboki]

Yeah, this game really heats things up, I can fry eggs on it while playing, luckily mine doesnt shutdown…

[Dr. Venkman]

Originally posted by Caz:

Intel i7 13600 13th gen 16 core CPU
GTX 3080
24GB DDR5 Ram

If anyone is curious

I5-13600KF playing with a population of 125.000. Maybe there is something wrong with your cooling

[MJM]

Maybe you won't like it, but playing in lower resolution helps. Chirper pop ups take some space in prosessing speed imo and can be switched off in options/interface. Otherwise you know your wish for Santa.

[c0hKaine]

You need a lot of graphics memory because this game sucks at LOD culling and whatnot (they rushed this out of the door with the wiring still exposed as it were). There are better techniques that handle pop-in and CO ain't using it. That's because they tried adaptive resolution and failed to execute on it, told people to turn it off. So now you're stuck at a suboptimal configuration despite it being "better".

Turn shadows off and consult a guide. If you are interested maybe learn a little GPU terminology and have some fun with it?

[Jack Greedy]

I dont want to be a bad advisor but just do like i did. Surrender for now and play more optimized games while shelf Cities 2 until spring 2024.

[c0hKaine]

Originally posted by 6thALVol.kaboki:

Yeah, this game really heats things up, I can fry eggs on it while playing, luckily mine doesnt shutdown…

Pathfinding algorithms are extremely computational if the big(o) is not restricted.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Originally posted by Caz:

Intel i7 13600 13th gen 16 core CPU
GTX 3080
24GB DDR5 Ram

If anyone is curious

Do you have all the eye candy turned up to max or what?
I'm on a Ryzen 5 2600x 6-core at 4.1Ghz with 32Gb 5200 memory and a RX570 8GB @ 1080p and my city is over 170K and growing with most graphics set to MED or HIGH but I turned off DoF, DR, clouds, fog, and volumetrics. My computer runs a bit warm but far from hot. The video card is at way higher temps than the CPU during the game around 150F. The CPUs vary, but average around 120F. The bridge and memory temps are bouncing around 100F. The mobo power supply temp is worrying when it hits 180F sometimes, but it's not going into overheat shutdown protection until well over 220F so it's fine.

EDIT: I cleaned the case intake fan filters, the PSU exhaust fan, and the case exhaust fans, and now the power supply temp is bouncing around 150-160. The 'system temp' which is between the mosfets and the PCI bridge assemblies dropped by over twenty degrees, but it's right next to the case's rear exhaust fan. Memory temp dropped almost twenty degrees, but they are being hit directly by an intake fan with a foam filter. The other component temps dropped less than ten degrees, but they dropped. The biggest gain was 'case temp' which is directly in the middle of the mobo and not near a heat source, apparently, now reads 91F instead of bouncing over 100F.
I need to remember to clean those filters and fans more often.

[Daveyboy]

Is that a laptop? If not maybe the cooling/case isn't so good?
I've only gone to, I dunno around 10K pop maybe so far? But so far my 15 year old Core i7-920 is coping well and actually running quite cool. Getting a lot of hot air from my GTX 970 though. It's in quite a large coolermaster case.
I imagine at higher pops my CPU is going to be quite busy, but could always overclock it a bit more. Currently have it at 3.3GHz, I've had it to, I think, 4GHz before which it handles, though power consumption and fan speed increase quite a lot at those levels.

[Christian Mahony]

With my computer - at the time - NO!

[belaya smert]

Sounds like thermal overload. I have an i3-13100F, GTX 1070 TI, 32 GB DDR4 and hit pops of 190k + and high temps but no shutdowns. Replaced the stock Intel cooler with a Thermalright Assassin X 120 SE CPU cooler and now temps are 20-30 degrees C lower. You might want to try the app Core Temp and see what the CPU cores are running at - anything above 80 C isn't good - the limit for the CPU thermal junction is 100 C. Hope this helps!

[playboi14]

You might want to look into running MSI Afterburner + RivaTuner Statistics Server. Using that you can get an overlay showing your CPU/GPU usage, temperature, and voltage. If you're getting actual shutdowns then you're probably either hitting a voltage limit (because things are running at near 100%) or you're well above the thermal throttling limit of 100 degrees on your 13th series CPU

With my 13900k, even with a decent 240mm AIO running at full pump+fan I'm still reaching 85-98 degrees while playing CS2 on my 500k city (almost every core is nearing 100 degrees)

Take a look at your temperatures and find out what's going on because a 25k city is relatively small

[Keldysh]

I think you should definately look some videos how to optimize your graphic settings!

There is a Youtuber named "imperatur" that recently stated in one of his videos he runs a GTX 970, which is literally the required minimum. And on top his PC is recording the video while he is playing!

In his latest video he has close to 50k pop and the game still runs fine. I got a GTX 1070 Ti and my PC is doing good aswell.

I think most players can solve their performace issues by changing the settings. You CAN have fun with the game and acceptable graphic quality with the right settings at current state, but I will not argue about the poor optimization of the game because that's a fact.

[Major Kudos™]

Yeah it's your system, I have a 550k city running fine and slow with a i5 12600k and a 3060, temps are awesome in a little Sugo 13 case with only two fans.

[snowe]

I also have 24gb mem, 3080, and an amd 8 core cpu and I am running pretty fine at around 100k now. Sounds like you need better cooling, your pc should handle that perfectly fine.