Cities Skylines 2 has launched large on Steam, hitting over 100,000 concurrent gamers and sitting atop the best-sellers chart. But efficiency points have marred the launch, which was met with a ‘combined’ person evaluation score of 48% on Valve’s platform.
The majority of the unfavorable person critiques embody complaints concerning the metropolis builder’s efficiency, which developer Colossal Order had warned could be an issue earlier than the sport got here out. The present ‘most useful evaluation’ for Cities Skylines 2 on Steam, from person Ariegan, merely states: “Who would think about that we might get one other unoptimized mess of a sport in 2023… I’m drained, boss…”
Steam person CountCristo goes into extra element. “Sadly the sport is not prepared for launch, maintain off for now – I’ll be completely satisfied when the time comes to vary this evaluation! The sport performs horribly, and on the settings that permit it to scrape by with 20fps it seems dramatically worse than Cities 1. There are additionally varied bugs (particularly round ‘not sufficient prospects’) that fill the sport with annoying bubble alerts for no purpose.”
And right here’s one other Steam evaluation, from person Stin: “Everyone already is aware of the efficiency is horrible, so I’ll simply share my expertise so you may have an extra instance to check to. I’ve a 13900k, 64GB of RAM, and a RTX 4090, taking part in on a 1440p ultrawide monitor. I received 35fps on the major menu and in sport on a model new map w/o constructing a single factor. Turning off movement blur and depth subject elevated this from 35 to 50fps. Not a single different graphics setting modified the efficiency in any respect. I turned off each single setting I might or set it to the bottom attainable, and nonetheless solely received 50fps. This is impressively dangerous optimization, I really cannot recall one other sport not too long ago the place altering the graphics settings actually did nothing to fps. Just avoid this till they repair it.”
This week, Colossal Order builders revealed Cities Skylines 2 targets 30 frames per second, even on probably the most highly effective PCs. Chief technical officer “damsku” mentioned there’s “arguably no actual profit in a metropolis builder to goal for larger fps”. What issues extra with metropolis builders, damsku mentioned, is to keep away from stutters and have a responsive person interface.
Earlier this month, Colossal Order admitted Cities Skylines 2’s efficiency wasn’t as much as scratch, however insisted it could launch town builder on PC as deliberate on October 24. “Cities: Skylines 2 is a next-gen title, and naturally, it calls for sure {hardware} necessities,” Colossal Order mentioned on the time. “With that mentioned, whereas our crew has labored tirelessly to ship the perfect expertise attainable, we now have not achieved the benchmark we focused.”
In a brand new submit on Steam issued in the present day, October 25, Colossal Order went into extra element on the controversial choice to launch Cities Skylines 2 understanding it had these efficiency points.
“While some setups on PC have challenges, we concluded the efficiency shouldn’t be a dealbreaker for all of the gamers,” the developer mentioned. “For us, the primary precedence is for the gamers to have enjoyable with the sport, and we had seen sufficient suggestions from gamers having fun with the sport that it could be extra unfair to postpone. We know we’ll maintain engaged on the sport and do our greatest to repair points as quick as attainable, so we wished to respect the introduced launch date and permit folks to start out taking part in the sport.
To that finish, various performance-related updates are deliberate. “Firstly, we wish to guarantee you that the problems usually are not deeply rooted within the sport’s basis, so we absolutely count on to have the ability to enhance efficiency going ahead,” Colossal Order mentioned. “The points we’re at the moment dealing with are tied to the rendering of the sport, and reducing the standard of visible results corresponding to Depth of Field, Global Illumination, and Volumetrics will get you a good efficiency with out affecting simulation – at the price of some eye sweet.”
Colossal Order advisable the next to these expertise low FPS in Cities Skylines 2:
- Reduce display screen decision to 1080p
- Disable Depth of Field and Volumetrics
- Reduce Global Illumination
The developer even revealed a information to enhance Cities Skylines 2’s efficiency. “With the upcoming patches, the state of affairs will largely enhance with default settings,” Colossal Order insisted.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
