Cities: Skylines

Andr3w · 27 Aug 2020 at 14:58

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?

petridish · 27 Aug 2020 at 15:00

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.

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

spending money where it just wouldn't be worth it in real life)

scorchedbee · 27 Aug 2020 at 17:26

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?

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!

BUDFORCE · 27 Aug 2020 at 19:14

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 spending money where it just wouldn't be worth it in real life)

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.

robfosters · 27 Aug 2020 at 20:12

Any news of a sequel?

scorchedbee · 27 Aug 2020 at 23:50

here is my latest map version

215K, traffic at 84%.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bICRwd5fvjr0wENIOtT8c0EYdE3qZSpE/view?usp=sharing

petridish · 28 Aug 2020 at 09:49

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.

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.

scorchedbee · 28 Aug 2020 at 10:52

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.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431174019

that is exactly why I went with this copper creek map!

Vimes · 28 Aug 2020 at 10:58

^^^^ your mod list doesn't actually display "your" mod list

petridish · 28 Aug 2020 at 11:29

scorchedbee said:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=431174019

that is exactly why I went with this copper creek map!

Ah wow that's pretty much what I was thinking. Although coupled with coastal features for what budforce was thinking. More cliffs/hills and maybe smaller uneven fields of long grass. I've saved this one for my own play through though, thanks!

Steeps · 28 Aug 2020 at 11:39

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.

picnic · 28 Aug 2020 at 11:47

scorchedbee said:
Here is a link to my mods used https://steamcommunity.com/id/scorchedbee/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710&browsefilter=mysubscriptions

That link shows me my workshop files, can I get to see yours this way? Keep meaning to have another go at CS. Always crash at burn at about 550 (people not K people

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scorchedbee · 28 Aug 2020 at 12:36

Hopefully this helps!

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Timboh's Second Cloverstack Interchange (w/ central reservation ramps)
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Timboh's Clovermill Interchange
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CSL Map View
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Improved Public Transport 2
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Advanced Incineration Plant
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Large Advanced Incineration Plant
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16MW Waste to Energy Incinerator
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Skip Intro
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Empty It!
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Clouds & Fog Toggler
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Extra Landscaping Tools
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Cross The Line
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Roundabout Builder
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Tree Brush
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Zoom It!
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Loading Screen Mod
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First Person Camera: Updated
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Sharp Textures
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Vanilla Lake - Updated 2019
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Copper Creek
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Navilla
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Network Extensions 2 (Updated for Sunset Harbor)
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Achieve It!
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KFC
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picnic · 28 Aug 2020 at 13:10

That works, thanks

scorchedbee · 28 Aug 2020 at 18:58

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?

tamzzy · 28 Aug 2020 at 19:03

scorchedbee said:
ram useage is 90% of my 16gb

scorchedbee said:
would upping to 32gb help remove the stutters now?

quite possibly

scorchedbee · 28 Aug 2020 at 19:13

tamzzy said:
quite possibly

Thank you.

I did kind of think i was answering my own question there, but just wondered. Since this is the only game i seem to be playing right now and 16gb of corsair vengance pro (same as i have) is only £80 on the rainforest, why not!

tamzzy · 28 Aug 2020 at 19:49

scorchedbee said:
I did kind of think i was answering my own question there, but just wondered.

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

scorchedbee · 29 Aug 2020 at 00:57

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

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

Vimes · 29 Aug 2020 at 09:03

scorchedbee said:
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

Your saved game runs well, very smooth, with under 14GB of memory used, I have 32GB installed....

screenshot below

EC03218FA78D15C0BE5E8C1D7808FF3EBA46BA9D

10GB or so memory used on GPU. Low CPU load.