Question - system requirements

[Asfuma1]

Can someone help me understand what the system requirements are for CS2? I have B450M DS3H mboard with AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, 64Gb RAM, and NVidia 3060 12Gb. Should I expect the game to be playable at this hardware and Win11? I can play CS1 without any problems (with many DLCs). CS2 is so slow as to be unplayable even in the beginning of the game. I haven't made it past tutorial, it was freezing/jerking so much. I really really REALLY want to like this game, I love CS1 and root for the studio, but this was a major disappointment. Any pointers?

[Aieonae]

Odd, I am using a 11 Gen laptop with 16gb ram tethered to an egpu same as yours it's running fine on 1650x1050 60hz

Maybe more technical support players can shed some like on AMD comparisons?

[sternenstaub70]

Originally posted by Asfuma1:

Can someone help me understand what the system requirements are for CS2? I have B450M DS3H mboard with AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, 64Gb RAM, and NVidia 3060 12Gb. Should I expect the game to be playable at this hardware and Win11? I can play CS1 without any problems (with many DLCs). CS2 is so slow as to be unplayable even in the beginning of the game. I haven't made it past tutorial, it was freezing/jerking so much. I really really REALLY want to like this game, I love CS1 and root for the studio, but this was a major disappointment. Any pointers?

I have a pretty similar setting:

I7 12700f which is about 66% faster than your Ryzen.
I have also 64 GB RAM and an Nvidia rtx 3060 12 GB.
I'm running the game at 2K resolution.

New games run pretty fast, with 50-70 fps, so even if your cpu is slower - since it's a new town - there is not much to calculate, therefore you should have similar results.

Important: don't use max. graphics settings in your game. Disable volumetric, Enable DLSS, Set shadows to low....

Since you have the same GFX card as I have, try to optimize the graphics settings of the game with the Nvidia App.
Go to Nvidia App -> Graphics -> Cities Skylines II (*) -> Optimize

(*) If Cities Skylines II does not show up in the program list, add Cities2.exe manually.