Addressing widespread Cities: Skylines 2 performance problems in the city-builder’s launch version, developer Colossal Order has stated that “the issues are not deeply rooted in the game’s foundation, so we fully expect to be able to improve performance going forward. The issues we are currently facing are tied to the rendering of the game.”
Colossal Order announced that it planned on pushing out a series of smaller patches and likely one bigger update to address performance issues. It further stated that it had already identified some problems connected with specific hardware setups that came unexpectedly.
Improvements are currently being worked on that seek to remove stutters, optimize and balance GPU performance, and further optimize CPU performance. Expanding the upscaling options for the game is another area Colossal Order is working on. Both FSR2 and DLSS2 aren’t possible to use at the moment due to some objects being incompatible with the temporal anti-aliasing technique, but the developers are “currently working towards making this possible, which will not only help to boost performances but also provide a better quality anti-aliasing solution than the one we currently use (SMAA by default).”
Talking about the goals of this post-launch optimization process, Colossal Order stated: “With the upcoming patches, the situation will largely improve with default settings. It is worth mentioning that for a game like this, the performance target is to run at a steady 30 FPS minimum. There is no real benefit in a city builder to aim for higher FPS (unlike a multiplayer shooter) as a growing city will inevitably become CPU-bound. What matters more with this type of game is to avoid stutters and have a responsive UI.”
That does not mean, the company emphasized, that optimization would be stopped once that 30 FPS target has been reached.
At the end of the day it looks like not all players are affected by grave performance issues, which is often the nature with PC games – hardware setups are so different throughout the board that issues and their solutions vary a lot. Until Colossal Order has updates ready to roll out, you can use our best Cities: Skylines 2 settings to increase performance.
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The American Hockey League isn’t for everyone. Cole Caufield learned this well when he was sent to Laval at the start of the 2021-2022 season. That’s what Les Sport’ischhh podcast photographer Bernard Olivier Loyer told us during the recording of the latest episode Bernard Olivier Loyer was an equipment manager for the Rocket when Caufield joined the team to get his bearings. He recounted how, when he first joined the team, Caufield was told he’d have to wear CCM instead of his usual Bauer gear – all because the AHL has a partnership with CCM that means only three players per team can wear anything other than CCM. According to Bernard Olivier Loyer, Caufield really didn’t like the announcement and even called Marc Bergevin directly to ask for his Bauer gear back. The problem is that the three players who use different equipment are often team leaders or veterans with many years of professional experience. Caufield, on the other hand, was arriving there in his first full professional season. He finally got what he wanted and was able to play with his Bauer equipment thanks to Gabriel Bourque, who agreed to wear CCM until Caufield’s recall. [content-ads] Bourque has long played with CCM equipment. His only visible piece of equipment that wasn’t CCM was his Warrior stick, and you’d have to be a real badass to change sticks like that, considering it’s perhaps the most important piece of equipment in hockey. Still, Caufield proved that playing with his equipment was worth it, as he finally established himself with the Canadiens as a first line player.You can listen to the full episode of the Sport’ischhh podcast, here. [spacer title=’Overtime’] – The Alouettes will miss Davis Alexander: – Byram would still be at risk of changing addresses. – MLB deal. – A sad story.
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