• MrNesser@lemmy.world
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    Yeah ill be waiting for optimization before buying.

    This is going to hurt them short term especially during launch.

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    I said this on Masto, but this tells me nothing as written. You can get the first game to run like that, too.

    The thing is, if it runs that way on an empty map and degrades the same way the first one did, I can’t see it not crashing on a full endgame map. So… how does it run on endgame? Or is this endgame and it runs fine at first? Guessing no, since the devs themselves said this was a problem. And, well, I’ve seen footage from streamers and it certainly chugs on small maps, too.

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      Might be good to have a watch of City Planner Play’s Benchmarking video

      To answer your main Q from this, apparently the biggest performance dropoff is going from no pop to 10k, scaling up to 100k isn’t nearly the same dropoff.

      Even with a beefy setup on high settings, CPP suggests turning off many of the post-processing effects and definitely disable VSync. Lastly 4K is out of the question for most cards, barely playable for top end enthusiast cards, Most will be limited to 1080p for a usable experience.

      The good news from this video is that for anything above a 970 it is possible to get to late game, as long as you stick to 1080p low-med settings on any card with less than 8GB VRAM.

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        Hm. So it scales with VRAM and GPU, not CPU? Interesting.

        That’s less concerning than people had made it out to be, at least for a game of this genre. It still doesn’t sound particularly pleasant to play, but hey, less of a dealbreaker.

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      It’s not going to be worse than KSP2. KSP2 launched with game breaking bugs and all of the new features missing (and some of the old ones) as well as bad performance on ALL graphic settings no matter the specs. CS2 has features that differ it from the first game and the performance issues (allegedly) can be fixed by turning settings down (unlike KSP2). Both games launched (or will launch) without modding support which is really bad for both games.

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        I meant specifically the frame rate, not necessarily the game as a whole. I should have been more specific. I do agree with the points on KSP2 though

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    If you can’t actually play it with the new graphics what’s it’s advantage over original cities skylines?

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      There is actually a LOT more little things, that make the game very different. Besides who in the right mind would buy a 70 buck sequel with Just better grafics?

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      Just have a look at the dev diaries. For me personally its the overhaul of pretty much all simulation engines (traffic, weather, water, wind, people etc.) and that they solved (apparently) the single thread problem of their traffic simulation. For me CS1 was bottlenecked when the cities became to big and the traffic could only be simulated on one core. There is a limit to that. But my cpu was otherwise idle. I have hope that this is now solved. Plus there is apparently no agent limit anymore. So a town of 500000 could in theory simulate all people individually, CS1 couldn’t.

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    Not that I don’t believe them, but it’s odd that none of the videos from YouTubers with early access have shown that kind of performance. It makes me wonder if they are trying to set lower expectations for some reason.

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      I suspect 4K is the biggest killer. Most YouTubers aren’t playing at that resolution.

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    Honestly, that’s not an issue if you can scale down.

    I don’t understand why people assume their hardware should be able to max everything out. The game should obviously target current consumer hardware, otherwise they’ll have nobody to sell it to, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with allowing the engine to run with settings current hardware can’t handle - but newer hardware in the future will.

    If you buy your hardware to masturbate over the thought of setting the slides to “ultra” you might be disappointed. If you buy your hardware to game, turn the settings down and go be happy.

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      I have never in my 20 years of gaming not had to make some sacrifices even with new hardware. The only time I can max out all sliders is when a game is already 5 or more years old.

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        Yup even if you get top of the line everything PC games usually aren’t meant to be maxed out settings at launch. A high resolution really takes a toll on the hardware too. Of course not every game is like this but for the most part they don’t want the games to look outdated after two years. It’s always fun revisiting games after a PC upgrade because of this. Though since even the devs or publisher said that they didn’t hit performance targets this is noticably worse performance, least from all the articles I’ve seen. I enjoyed the first city skylines except the traffic so am looking forward to buying when it gets optimized.

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          The original cities skylines had atrocious performance after a certain city size as well, especially on hardware available at launch. Hopefully they can deliver on better performance over the next few months, I expect it to improve before they do their console release.

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          This is a good take. If I can play, maybe high settings, on my 1440p monitor I’ll be happy. I don’t need ultra day one. I’m excited for a refreshed city builder, I have hundreds of hours in the first one and I’m excited to see the improvements.