Laggy af

[domob17]

reinstalled the game after a couple of months, tried to play again my first and only city with 1m pop. The issue with fps at medium to high settings before was bearable, but now it's a lot worse. It felt my machine is a potato, even after I set everything to low settings.

ROG Strix G713QY Advantage Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
32GB ram

I bought the ultimate edition yet I can't play it anymore. Do you guys think I just need to start with a new city? or just wait for more updates... or it's time to buy a new laptop? Sigh... I really loved CS1 and I can't say the same with CS2.

[domob17]

restarted the game and it's now bearable... damn game

[Scott-ish]

Finding the game lagging on a city with only 6,000 pop.

[City Builder]

Start a new city for now, it appears cities above 300 to 500k can slow down many peoples potatoes and onions, perhaps they'll be able to optimize it, perhaps not.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by domob17:

reinstalled the game after a couple of months, tried to play again my first and only city with 1m pop. The issue with fps at medium to high settings before was bearable, but now it's a lot worse. It felt my machine is a potato, even after I set everything to low settings.

ROG Strix G713QY Advantage Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
32GB ram

I bought the ultimate edition yet I can't play it anymore. Do you guys think I just need to start with a new city? or just wait for more updates... or it's time to buy a new laptop? Sigh... I really loved CS1 and I can't say the same with CS2.

Laptops aren't the best for this game. Laptops are low powered and poor cooling. They can overheat quickly and have possible damage. or self throttle to prevent damage anyway.

I don't know if the devs have gimped the AI for it to use fewer cores. But it was using almost all of a 48-core CPU on larger cities.

But a 5900HX is only using 12-cores and around 3.3GHz, vs 5900X with 12-core and 4.6GHz.

But even a 16 core 5950X runs at 4.9 GHz. That would take 3 of those CPUs for theoretical max out the game.

I almost bought a 32-core threadripper for $1,000, but it only ran around 3GHz. So it likely would run a little better than the 5950X.

[domob17]

Originally posted by Scott-ish:

Finding the game lagging on a city with only 6,000 pop.

damn, never knew it's this bad

[domob17]

Originally posted by City Builder:

Start a new city for now, it appears cities above 300 to 500k can slow down many peoples potatoes and onions, perhaps they'll be able to optimize it, perhaps not.

wonder if they can get a server for all the computing power this game needs

[domob17]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by domob17:

reinstalled the game after a couple of months, tried to play again my first and only city with 1m pop. The issue with fps at medium to high settings before was bearable, but now it's a lot worse. It felt my machine is a potato, even after I set everything to low settings.

ROG Strix G713QY Advantage Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
32GB ram

I bought the ultimate edition yet I can't play it anymore. Do you guys think I just need to start with a new city? or just wait for more updates... or it's time to buy a new laptop? Sigh... I really loved CS1 and I can't say the same with CS2.

Laptops aren't the best for this game. Laptops are low powered and poor cooling. They can overheat quickly and have possible damage. or self throttle to prevent damage anyway.

I don't know if the devs have gimped the AI for it to use fewer cores. But it was using almost all of a 48-core CPU on larger cities.

But a 5900HX is only using 12-cores and around 3.3GHz, vs 5900X with 12-core and 4.6GHz.

But even a 16 core 5950X runs at 4.9 GHz. That would take 3 of those CPUs for theoretical max out the game.

I almost bought a 32-core threadripper for $1,000, but it only ran around 3GHz. So it likely would run a little better than the 5950X.

it sounds like it might take me a while to afford a system that can decently run this game, but thank you

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by domob17:

it sounds like it might take me a while to afford a system that can decently run this game, but thank you

Just keep an eye on the game. It will likely be capped for consoles, so the devs may gimp itself to 8-core/16-thread CPUs. Otherwise console players may get upset.

But yo should be able to play the game just fine. worst case is that you may be limited on tiles unlocked before lags kicks in badly.

[City Builder]

Not sure what your FPS are but for my eyes 30 is perfectly playable, it isn't until it gets below 20 that I really start noticing the slow down.
I play on high settings on my laptop listed below:
Lenovo laptop
Windows 11 64b
16GB RAM
Nvidia RTX 3060 6GB VRAM
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H

This gets me a minimum of 30 FPS until I'm so bored staring at the same city I start over, on medium and lower settings the FPS goes up okay but it's damn ugly to me but required to keep the FPS up high enough that it's smooth to my eyes.

[domob17]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by domob17:

it sounds like it might take me a while to afford a system that can decently run this game, but thank you

Just keep an eye on the game. It will likely be capped for consoles, so the devs may gimp itself to 8-core/16-thread CPUs. Otherwise console players may get upset.

But yo should be able to play the game just fine. worst case is that you may be limited on tiles unlocked before lags kicks in badly.

i really hope they do *fingers crossed*

[Cosmic Sea]

Theres no lag since the game is not an online multiplayer game. If your framerate is bad at 6k population, then you definitely need to make some hardware upgrades.

[Cosmic Sea]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by domob17:

reinstalled the game after a couple of months, tried to play again my first and only city with 1m pop. The issue with fps at medium to high settings before was bearable, but now it's a lot worse. It felt my machine is a potato, even after I set everything to low settings.

ROG Strix G713QY Advantage Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX 6800M
32GB ram

I bought the ultimate edition yet I can't play it anymore. Do you guys think I just need to start with a new city? or just wait for more updates... or it's time to buy a new laptop? Sigh... I really loved CS1 and I can't say the same with CS2.

Laptops aren't the best for this game. Laptops are low powered and poor cooling. They can overheat quickly and have possible damage. or self throttle to prevent damage anyway.

I don't know if the devs have gimped the AI for it to use fewer cores. But it was using almost all of a 48-core CPU on larger cities.

But a 5900HX is only using 12-cores and around 3.3GHz, vs 5900X with 12-core and 4.6GHz.

But even a 16 core 5950X runs at 4.9 GHz. That would take 3 of those CPUs for theoretical max out the game.

I almost bought a 32-core threadripper for $1,000, but it only ran around 3GHz. So it likely would run a little better than the 5950X.

If your goal was to buy a threadripper to play the game, thats would be an enormous waste of money. This game is not as much hardware-bound as it is bound by poor simulation performance, overcomplexities, and virtually non-existent performance optimization. Throwing money or hardware wont fix that.