Cities: Skylines

I'm struggling to play this at 1440p.

No matter what I set my resolution to, the game seems to stay at what I think is 1080p. Absolutly nothing changes. Anyone able to help?
 
BUDFORCE said:
I'm also on a Sandbridge CPU all be it the i7 version but yes, I am also well overdue.

I'm not planning a big city, I'm more of a detailer and the next project will definitely go small and detailed, I made a Las Vegas themed city last time (not a copy) but in my PC it became unplayable, that city wasn't even that big either.

I'm tempted to go UK themed, there are a lot of good UK style assets on the workshop, possible a costal town but I won't copy anything directly, just take inspiration from Google maps etc.

UK coastal town, you could have like a pleasure beach section, docks, then industry section. Holiday caravan parks, some cliffs, a beach, main line train station, all nice detail but not too big.
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Sounds great. That does appeal to me over typical US 'blocks' type cities. I'm picturing Devon/Cornwall type towns (but with a metro between them of course :D spending money where it just wouldn't be worth it in real life)
 
Andr3w said:
I'm struggling to play this at 1440p.

No matter what I set my resolution to, the game seems to stay at what I think is 1080p. Absolutly nothing changes. Anyone able to help?
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I play at 1440p. I find getting the dynamic resolution mod I linked before and upping the slider up really helps.

The post process/AA in the base game isnt great, but with the mod its stunning!
 
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petridish said:
Sounds great. That does appeal to me over typical US 'blocks' type cities. I'm picturing Devon/Cornwall type towns (but with a metro between them of course :D spending money where it just wouldn't be worth it in real life)
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It's really quite a challenge doing it, I dabbled a bit of my Vegas style city.

Thing is most American cities are built in blocks and straight lines, this not only makes it easier for a city building game and also I'm assuming American developers are gearing everything on that basis.

Most UK towns baring maybe Milton Keynes (and let's face it, who would want to recreate a virtual version of that) are a lot more organic. Problem is the game isn't geared up for that and the thing that will happen is you'll get lots of awkward looking flat green gaps between everything that will look awful.

One advantage of doing a desert based city is open areas of flat desert between the gaps doesn't look so bad. Basically why I did that one first, make flat desert, get the biggest brush, plop an assortment of desert plants on, then basically that looks great and build on from there.

On a UK based town basically put bushes and trees which if you look on any map is a pretty accurate representation of real life anyway, but it does mean sitting there plopping lots of trees and bushes.

More work definitely, hence keep it small.
 
BUDFORCE said:
It's really quite a challenge doing it, I dabbled a bit of my Vegas style city.

Thing is most American cities are built in blocks and straight lines, this not only makes it easier for a city building game and also I'm assuming American developers are gearing everything on that basis.

Most UK towns baring maybe Milton Keynes (and let's face it, who would want to recreate a virtual version of that) are a lot more organic. Problem is the game isn't geared up for that and the thing that will happen is you'll get lots of awkward looking flat green gaps between everything that will look awful.

One advantage of doing a desert based city is open areas of flat desert between the gaps doesn't look so bad. Basically why I did that one first, make flat desert, get the biggest brush, plop an assortment of desert plants on, then basically that looks great and build on from there.

On a UK based town basically put bushes and trees which if you look on any map is a pretty accurate representation of real life anyway, but it does mean sitting there plopping lots of trees and bushes.

More work definitely, hence keep it small.
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Yeah I do remember seeing your desert map in here actually, might flick back through and take a look.

It would be good if you could pick a theme for the terrain which would dynamically set things like hedgerows and fields around your buildings in a UK style map. That way you wouldn't have to meticulously go through and fill in the flat green spaces.

It always surprised me how much of the UK is covered in fields when seen from above. Would be good to have that as a starting point for a map.
 
petridish said:
Yeah I do remember seeing your desert map in here actually, might flick back through and take a look.

It would be good if you could pick a theme for the terrain which would dynamically set things like hedgerows and fields around your buildings in a UK style map. That way you wouldn't have to meticulously go through and fill in the flat green spaces.

It always surprised me how much of the UK is covered in fields when seen from above. Would be good to have that as a starting point for a map.
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431174019

that is exactly why I went with this copper creek map!
 
Think I've found the limit to my 3x3 map without mods. Population hit 330k, suddenly had a huge influx of deaths, stock movement gone and a mass exodus. Population plummeted by 80k and a demand for housing peaked. I've re-zoned more housing in land I was going to use for other purposes and the population still continues to drop. Something has changed in the game dynamics since I played it a couple of months ago and it's killed off my city.
 
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So hitting 230k today and the frame rate seems about the same but its starting to stutter a lot, ram useage is 90% of my 16gb and 99% of my 8gb vram...

would upping to 32gb help remove the stutters now?
 
scorchedbee said:
I did kind of think i was answering my own question there, but just wondered.
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it also depends on your processor too. CSL doesn't do multithreading very well (only uses up to 8 threads)
so a slow processor won't help matters - single core speed is more important than core count for CSL
 
tamzzy said:
it also depends on your processor too. CSL doesn't do multithreading very well (only uses up to 8 threads)
so a slow processor won't help matters - single core speed is more important than core count for CSL
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I have a Ryzen 3600 at 4.2ghz, hoping thats enough as the only real upgrade until 4000 series is cores not IPC.

latest V of my city, more robust rail network and 225k people
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZCjqnt9OCMN_qQxnpr_74enYUE_Wnh1k/view?usp=sharing
 
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