The guide is organized in a manner that is consistent with logic: Starting the application > loading a save > entering the game It addresses the many problems that arise at each level by modifying the hardware and fine-tuning the system. However, before you go to the in-game portion, you must first complete all of the steps in the correct order.
For instance, properly configuring your page file as part of the “launching the program” step can increase both the loading speed and the performance while playing the game. In a similar vein, the Loading Screen Mod, which is an integral component of the “loading a save” stage, will assist lessen the pressure placed on your graphics card and RAM, which will ultimately result in improved performance when playing the game.
How To Reduce Lag in Cities Skylines?
CO’s development group was modest at its inception. Due to the usage of an outdated version of the Unity game engine that isn’t “thread-safe,” the game is unable to make full use of contemporary hardware without a complete rewrite for a new game engine.
As your city expands, even high-end gaming machines will have trouble maintaining frame rates of more above 20fps. Therefore, you should be ready for it. That being said, FPS Boosting modifications are appearing, and they’re targeting critical bottlenecks in the game code to provide potentially significant performance boosts; more on this later.
Whether or if your CPU or GPU is the limiting factor in your system is what you should keep in mind while adjusting these parameters.
- Adjust the screen’s aspect ratio and resolution to fit your display.
- If the following adjustments don’t provide the desired results, try decreasing the resolution.
- The visual quality will suffer as a result, but performance will rise.
- If you want to make recording simpler, go to full-screen mode; windowed mode is preferred.
- After you’ve adjusted your screen settings, make sure Vsync is turned off.
Graphics:
- You may change the Color Correction Override setting to your desire under the Graphics options; it is more convenient to turn it off.
- If you turn off Depth of field below, the Film Grain setting won’t affect your frame rate.
- Turn off Anisotropic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing in the Quality Settings menu, as well as deactivate Shadows if they’re enabled. Set the Level of Detail to medium.
On low-spec machines, removing unneeded save games makes app start faster and occasionally boosts in-game performance. Main Menu > Content Manager > Savegames – RAM and page file. The game will lag without adequate RAM and page file.
RAM
Adding DLC and workshop content makes this game RAM-hungry. Game loading and saving increase RAM use. Buildings, cars, and roads use more RAM than modifications. The C:SL Steam store website says the game needs 4GB RAM. Even with free updates, the vanilla game won’t fit in 4GB. Laggy chaos. Base game requires 8 GB RAM.
When adding DLC and workshop, 16 GB RAM is recommended. If you don’t have enough RAM, the game will start shifting data to disk. Even super-fast NVMe M.2 SSDs are slower than RAM. More RAM reduces disk shifting, improving performance. A faster CPU can handle faster RAM. Make sure more RAM will work with your CPU before purchasing it.