Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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FPS Booster

Description
Increases in-game frame rate, but... results may vary because there are many factors like CPU/GPU speed, RAM usage, current in-game scene complexity etc.

Disclaimer: you need good and efficient GPU cooling, because this mod may force your GPU run at full speed(laptops/notebooks) - FPS limiter included

Mini FPS Booster is not required. It won't make your game faster when FPS Booster is subscribed
FPS Booster includes all patches from Mini FPS Booster.


Compatibility:

How it works
Each frame, the game updates over 10,000 UI components, most of which don't need updating (thanks to @Egi for proving that!) - FPS Booster prevents the useless updates, which reduces CPU strain and makes the game run faster.

To achieve this, I rename the Update() and LateUpdate() method on the UIComponent base class so Unity Engine will not call them automatically from its update loop.

Patching of core game files is done before Mono runtime initializes Unity Engine.

All modifications to the game files and later mods(incompatible) are performed at runtime in-memory and they cannot be reverted while game is running, due to limitations of assembly loading.

Since everything is done at runtime, files don't have to be recompiled and remain unchanged, so there is no risk of file corruption and the mod can be unsubscribed at any time.

The mod implements few layers of protection against unexpected state, like game update or new DLC - at worst it will load an original(untouched) assemblies and disable itself.

All updates of modified types are performed by custom update loop. Instances of objects are collected in a few different ways depends on type of objects and updated in specific order to prevent rendering issues like lagging behind user input.

Incompatible mods
At a time of writing this page there was no single mod reported as incompatible.

Built-in Auto-patcher is responsible for scanning every single mod which game is trying to load to find incompatible instructions or constructs which needs to be patched. If something go wrong, patcher will load original file and then report to the user about that, along with information which mod may cause issues(not all incompatibilities can be spotted easily).

Eventual incompatibilities may result in UI problems:
  • lack of responsiveness,
  • issues with arranging UI elements,
  • missing UI elements,
  • issues with showing/hiding mod panes

IMPORTANT NOTES
Disabling FPS Booster without either unsubscribing or disabling Patch Loader will not disable processing of FPS Booster patches (limitation).

Enabled FPS Booster mod will be trying to subscribe Patch Loader mod automatically if not found.

--noWorkshop or --disableMods game commandline arguments are respected by Patch Loader, which means that patching will be skipped if Steam version of Patch Loader is installed/subscribed.

Known issues:
If you see An critical error occured while patching game! warning after starting the game and FPS Booster was working correctly before, you need to close the game and Steam client completely then start Steam and the game in that order.

If you run the game before Steam client (e.g. using game shortcut) Steam client will interrupt patching and FPS Booster won't work until you restart Steam.

Temporary solution: Always run Steam client first before you run the game.

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Missing font characters with font from Asian region (Chinese/Korean/Japan) or other font related issues?
Temporary solution: Disable Custom Font Manager in the mod options - it will fix the problem I'll try to find better solution.

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If you experience a bit longer savegame loading turn off Loading screen cooldown -> reduced fps affects loading speed because game divides loading process into actions per frame -> more FPS, more actions performed in the same timespan

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Popular Discussions View All (42)
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Oct 11, 2023 @ 9:03am
Critical Error always appears
3eongs5
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Jan 5, 2024 @ 4:48pm
Error after opening the game on an m1 mac
Tankblaster
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Apr 10, 2023 @ 3:52pm
PINNED: [SOLVED] FPS Booster does not work on Linux
Syd Bat
1,560 Comments
Krzychu1245  [author] 26 minutes ago 
@Night Rose you cannot use FPS Booster without Patch loader mod.

@gpa1090 it looks like Skyve issue, but last update was two years ago, so maybe try unsubscribing and subscribing it again? Steam workshop servers are sometimes unreliable and the client app tends to corrupt mod folders after download or sometimes download files partially without any note about issues to the user.
gpa1090 10 hours ago 
Game crashed when trying to resuming the latest save, and the following massages appear in separate windos when reaching the main menu after start game:

FPS Booster
An critical error occured while patching game
Possible solutions (follow order of operations):

Patch Loader Ineffective. Make sure you only have one Skyve installed.
Possible solutions (follow order of operations):
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Solution 1:
1.Close game completely
2.Close Steam client (right-click try icon, 'Exit')
3.Start Steam client normally
4.Start game either directly from Steam
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Solution 2:
1.Restart PC
2.Start Steam client first
3.Start the game after Steam launches
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact mod author for more info how to resolve the problem

Is this a Skyve issue? Many thanks for your help.
gpa1090 10 hours ago 
Hi, I was using Skyve with both FPS booster and Patch Loader subscribed. I played fined until about 2 months ago.
FPS Booster Log can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YVkvy_Q7NTHBve0Zd6Xy5TrXcoVW4lWm/view?usp=drive_link
Night Rose Nov 7 @ 6:30am 
help, is just disabled patch loader mod

An critical error occured while patching game!

Possible solutions (follow order of operations):

Solution 1:
1.Close game completely
2.Close Steam client (right-click try icon, 'Exit')
3.Start Steam client normally
If you use Paradox game launcher:

etc...
Neo71 Oct 30 @ 2:53pm 
WOW this MOD is BONKERS
i cannot believe my R5 5600g jumped from 40fps (in a new map) to 140 FPS
congrats to everyone involved
Vingle™ Oct 3 @ 6:58pm 
There are 2 time periods. Before this, and after this. 10/10 works wonders :SpRad_ThumbsUp:
glitchycrmareli Sep 29 @ 1:25pm 
In one of the comments some guy wrote about Cities Skylines running in Proton and this mod:

"you could solve this by simply adding WINEDLLOVERRIDES='winhttp=n,b' to your steam launch options, this ensures that wine will try to load the doorstop winhttp.dll and only use the version built into wine as a fallback"

And it DOES work. Flawlessly even
Krzychu1245  [author] Sep 22 @ 11:55am 
@guillermo2000.4 make sure that Patch Loader mod (mod dependency) is subscribed, enabled, and working correctly.
guillermo2000.4 Sep 22 @ 7:03am 
Morning everyone. I have a issue with this mod. The control panel of this mod shows a message that can read "FPS Booster Status: Not Working". I have a "good machine" with Windows 11, 16 gb RAM, GPU 3050 6GB and I5 13420H. Anyone can help me? Thanks
belqta__ Sep 20 @ 12:49pm 
OMG
This mod is such a treasure! True treasure!
There are 100% no problems and working very very well. Im playing in 4K and this thing boost my FPS from 40 to 100 average and 180 in some max scenes. Also the game running lot smooth than before.
A huge THANK YOU for the author of this mod.
P.s. For those who may have problems - change your machines! The problem is somewhere in your game.