r/CitiesSkylines • u/OkEntrepreneur3340 • Oct 25 '23
Have I been pranked? Game Feedback
"Unplayable". "Shouldn't have been released". "Atrocious".
Based on the early reviews I read last week, I was disappointed that this game almost certainly wouldn't run on my mid-range 6 year old ROG laptop. People with $5k desktops were describing a game so slow they couldn't even play it, so I figured I'd be lucky to see the main menu.
To my shock, not only did the game run, but I don't think I even would have noticed a performance issue had no one mentioned it! Has everyone been messing with me? Sure, it's certainly not running at 10,000 fps and the camera jerks a little when you scroll or zoom, but come on. I don't even know my fps. I don't care. Why would I? It's a city builder. It's not impeding my enjoyment of the planning, the design, the tinkering, the problem solving.
I'm prepared for the downvotes, but this game is beautiful. I can only assume the developers are working frantically to improve the performance, and they probably did rush the release too much, but look past it for a minute and you'll see some incredible work.
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u/symphwind Oct 25 '23
Yeah, this game runs just fine on my computer (i7-9800x, 32 gb ram, GTX 1660 6 gb, all SSD ... definitely graphics card bottlenecked). Where I left CS1, the simulation couldn’t even run on slow speed and pretty sure I was getting 5 fps. Granted, I have a small city in CS2 but it is very smooth in comparison, and everything still looks great even on lower graphics settings. The water actually looks like water and the trees aren’t doing aerobics. My complaints have nothing to do with performance and everything to do with the irritating radio.