Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an NVIDIA RTX4090 at 4K/Excessive, even on an empty map
Paradox Interactive has launched its newest metropolis builder, Cities Skylines 2. Sadly, although, this is likely one of the worst-optimized PC video games of 2023. Cities Skylines 2, even on a totally new/empty map, runs with 20fps on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 at 4K/Excessive.
I’m really shocked by how unhealthy this sport runs. And if this metropolis builder used Ray Tracing or Path Tracing, I wouldn’t be complaining. We all know that Ray Tracing and Path Tracing are actually demanding. However no, Cities Skylines 2 doesn’t make the most of them. And severely, check out the screenshots and video. What on Earth is pushing the RTX 4090 so onerous right here?
Since I’m not likely good at metropolis builders, we’ll use an empty map for our upcoming PC Efficiency Evaluation. In different phrases, we’ll be doing this sport a favor. As a result of if it performs like that on an empty map, I can’t think about the way it will run with a mid/huge metropolis. We do know {that a} mid-sized metropolis runs with 7-12fps on an AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX. And if the principle menu is something to go by, then we’d have an concept of the efficiency of a giant metropolis on an RTX4090. And look and behold. 10fps. 10fps on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX4090. That’s extra demanding than Cyberpunk 2077 in 4K with Path Tracing. Man, what a large number.
Colossal Order is at the moment working on making the game run better. The workforce is optimizing/balancing the results that have an effect on fillrate. Thus, they’re making adjustments to issues like Depth of Subject, International Illumination, and Volumetrics to make them work higher and never decelerate your sport.
After additional experimentation, we discovered the one setting that may cripple efficiency. That’s the Depth of Subject High quality. By decreasing it to Low, we had been in a position to enhance efficiency in the principle menu. Nevertheless, in our empty map, we couldn’t come near a 60fps expertise. As an alternative, the sport was working with 40fps. 40fps with this type of visuals on an NVIDIA RTX 4090. Sufficient mentioned.
As I discussed earlier than, we’re going to make use of an empty map to check how effectively the sport runs on totally different computer systems. It needed to check it with a medium-sized metropolis, however the sport doesn’t have a benchmark instrument, and there are not any pre-made cities to make use of. So, our benchmarks will showcase the very best efficiency you may get on this metropolis builder.
Keep tuned for extra!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He’s a PC gaming fan and extremely helps the modding and indie communities. Earlier than creating DSOGaming, John labored on quite a few gaming web sites. Whereas he’s a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots might be discovered on consoles. John liked – and nonetheless does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be the most effective consoles. Nonetheless, the PC platform gained him over consoles. That was primarily resulting from 3DFX and its iconic devoted 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has additionally written the next diploma thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics playing cards.”
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