No thank you @simbaleroi2006! For commenting a liking the comparisons. Haha, I have a healthy relationship with my boss, but also an upcoming holiday... so a good time leave the K8s clusters for what they are and maybe play Cities Skylines a bit more (but Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate, my next video... 😅).
Thank you for making this video. Its probably the most detailed analysis on this topic I've seen so far. I will definitely be revisiting my settings while watching this video again.
Well thank you @hannodb1961 for watching and leaving this comment! In the description I have put the settings as well, perhaps that's more convenient to have a look at when you are revisiting your settings.
Been a while, only just now had a look. Is it the same as very low texture quality with Trilinear filtering? But yeah, mainly zoomed in a saw a nice difference in FPS. Textures were a little bit less sharp I think, but not at all horrible to look at or something. So, nice one.
My computer runs it well enough but I am wondering if upgrading my processor will increase the simulation speed at 200k pop. Any idea if this is a hardware dependent variable or something hard coded based on population.
Hi @Secretsofsociety, that is a difficult question for me to answer. Simulation speed could increase with a faster cpu, but probably only if your cpu is performing at maximum (or some cores at least). Is there some way you can view your cpu usage when running the game? If you see any cores running at 100% a new / faster cpu could help. You could have a look in Windows taskmanager, or perhaps the Nvidia overlay (if you run an Nvidia card). Does this help in any way? Thanks for your comment though!
Mine lag spikes like it's trying to auto save every 1-4 seconds and the CPU graph drops to 10 processes or sometimes 5. Don't have autosaving on or have an issue with it. But it seems like the game is trying to load assets and lag the fk out.
That's a difficult one to answer I'm afraid. To see if this is graphics settings related you could turn the game to the lowest preset and see if the issue then still persists. If it does, it's at least not solvable by turning down graphics. If it doesn't, then some graphic setting is causing the issue. Perhaps also good to check if your memory is full or near full, or perhaps your VRAM? (wondering if it could be swapping of memory) Perhaps also good to check if you have any background processes running that could cause the issue. Hope these tips help for the first step in researching this issue. But also thanks for commenting @jl644 !
Amazing thank you. I have tried all sorts of advice and this works for me. I don't know if playing on Xbox live makes a difference. I think we are behind with the patches but you have cured my flickering. New fan here 😁
Good to hear @ilearn8950. Yes, that flickering was terrible. Don't know actually if playing from Xbox has a disadvantage. If we are left behind with patches that would be a shame. Well... good we have each other to get the game running and looking well 😉
They are saying VSync is actually not working well in this game and negatively impacting performance. I don't know if that's been fixed, but I'd rather keep it off for now. If anything I'll turn my monitor's G-Sync on.
@pheonix7289 thanks for replying. Yeah, if you have G-Synv, probably best to use that. My TV doesn't support that. V-Sync will always impact performance a bit, but it helps getting rid of tearing. But Yeah, G-Sync does that as well doesn't show tearing even if you get higher or lower fps.
One thing I want to say is Fog Settings. It makes this game's graphics even better, but loses so many FPS. Anyway without that, this is one of the best settings for optimization! 🙂😀
Hi @joe7822, TAA is a bit more blurry that SMAA. Are you running at a lower resolution perhaps? I think someone in the comments mentioned that when he turned on TAA things got too blurry but he was running at lower res. If that is the case, you could try to increase resolution, but perhaps you need to lower res to play the game correctly. Don't know if the other AA solutions perhaps are a better fit than.
@@HEnKisGaming Hey thanks for answering and trying to help! I‘m am running everything on the highest possible settings.. My game still looks a bit blurry only the closest housings (like 5-10 meters) are sharp but everything else is a bit blurry and as I said when I turn on TAA everything gets super blurry… The first time I turned TAA on was because I had this super annoying flickering (especially the trees…) But I fixed that by turning off the day/ night cycle. But yeah I just don‘t understand why my game doesn‘t look as good as it does with many TH-camrs especially since I do have everything on the highest settings..
@@joe7822 Haven't played the game for a while, I will try to have a look this evening to see if I can come up with something Joe. Maybe something in resolution scalers (but well, you probably have these off of set to quality levels). But well, don't know if I can help, but check if I see something. Will come back to you.
Hi @joe7822 , Can it be the Depth of Field? I just turned it to Tilt-Shift, and then the center is clear, but everything around that is very blurry. Think it shouldn't really matter what the Anti-Aliasing is set to though, but well, can you have a look? If it is set to Tilt-Shift, try setting it to Psysical or Disabled. Or have you set an Upsampling Filter? Noticed if you set this to Catmull-Rom the screen gets quite blurred as well. Best use one of AMD's Fidelity FX filters. Or, is your computer is really up for it, disable dynamic resolution scale quality (but then you really need a beefy machine). Let me know Joe! Hope it's one of these things.
Great video! I put similar settings with some things changed, like AA and dynamic res. TAA might look good in 4k, but unfortunately it looks awful in 1080p, making everything really blurry. The shimmering isn't that bad tho with SMAA in 1080p and imo it's more tolerable than constant blurriness.
This video provides the most comprehensive comparison to date, but may I inquire about the population of this city? I'd like to make a record of it for future reference. Thank you in advance.
Hello @kakashiar, thanks for the compliment. The population of this city (Tiny Town is what the game calls it) is 3800 people. That is not very large and a larger city or town can negatively impact performance. I know TH-cam channel Gamers Nexus has quite a good look at that. Hope that helps in your research.
11:57 looking at the part about reflection, you can see the bus detail does not load even if we are looking at it for a whole minute, that’s is disgusting and colossal order should be ashamed We have been tweaking all the settings just to get a playable fps, but when I set up metro station and train stations with more than 500 cims waiting already make all the time spent wasted, because whenever there are a lot of cims the fps will drop significantly
@pakchi70 Yes, those texture really took a while to load. Now I did see some texture loading on the main menu, don't know if waiting for that, and then loading your save helps. But yeah, this game is all about having a lot of cims so it's a shame fps drops when you have so much. Really hope Colossal Order can fix so you can play the game while running great. They did support Cities Skylines 1 for a long time, so I would like to think they are hard at work patching the game. Anyways, thanks for your comment!
@rbursell1 Just checked... it did do something. Game ran better, but I got the idea they changed something in the Level of detail. Think I saw some LOD's change on the high setting, which I didn't saw changing before when using the high setting. Curious.
Hi @vsbaratinho, ofcourse, my system is a Ryzen 7700x, GTX 4070Ti (12 GB VRAM), 32GB DDR5 ram. Those are the thing that matter most I guess. And thanks for the comment! What specs are you running on?
Nice system! Don't know how much worse performance gets when you have a bigger city, but so far I think there is headroom with your system. Also, a recent Patch already improved performance a little bit I think... and there will probably be more patches (and more improvements in performance).
@@HEnKisGamingman I saw some bad bad reviews with 4090 before those patches. I'm glad to see things are getting better. Btw, the joke at the end was just awesome lol
@justdude7222 Ow no! And all black friday deals are over, so no new laptop I guess. Well, luckily it's winter then, consider playing CS2 outside 😅, natural cooling. 😛 Thanks for commenting!
That doesn't sound good @SirCumcisi0n, does selecting a preset at least remove this issue? Don't exactly know which setting this could be. Is it an option to try switching them one by one to see which setting is causing this effect? But also thanks for commenting!
You could try and see if you are ok with running at 30Hz with v-sync on, if you find that playable, you could maybe set some settings higher. If you're ok with medium, perhaps your monitor of tv supports 50Hz, then you could play at that framerate with v-sync. (if your monitor supports g or free sync, use that of course) Hopefully some optimizations for the game in time will make it a bit less heavy to run.
@ben-niej-barkii4888 zeker wel!! Weet niet of je tot het eind hebt gekeken, maar zeg steeds: Houdoe Ik hoop dat dat de voornaamste weggever is en niet m'n Dunglish 😛
Ja, da is. Hopen dat Amerikanen of Engelsen het charmant vinden 😛. Misschien dat ik in een toekomstige video eens ga proberen 'm ook nederlands te dubben. Maar goed, tot die tijd zal je 't met m'n Nederlands accent moeten doen 😝
Thanks for this video! I really like the fact you show each settings separately with comparaison!
Good luck with your boss and your K8S cluster 😝
No thank you @simbaleroi2006! For commenting a liking the comparisons.
Haha, I have a healthy relationship with my boss, but also an upcoming holiday... so a good time leave the K8s clusters for what they are and maybe play Cities Skylines a bit more (but Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate, my next video... 😅).
Thank you for making this video. Its probably the most detailed analysis on this topic I've seen so far. I will definitely be revisiting my settings while watching this video again.
Well thank you @hannodb1961 for watching and leaving this comment!
In the description I have put the settings as well, perhaps that's more convenient to have a look at when you are revisiting your settings.
Hi Henk, try setting the mip bias of the texture settings to max and keep trilinear filtering. You might be surprised
Cool @teq3dw, will have a look at that. And thanks for the comment!
Been a while, only just now had a look. Is it the same as very low texture quality with Trilinear filtering? But yeah, mainly zoomed in a saw a nice difference in FPS. Textures were a little bit less sharp I think, but not at all horrible to look at or something. So, nice one.
My computer runs it well enough but I am wondering if upgrading my processor will increase the simulation speed at 200k pop. Any idea if this is a hardware dependent variable or something hard coded based on population.
Hi @Secretsofsociety, that is a difficult question for me to answer. Simulation speed could increase with a faster cpu, but probably only if your cpu is performing at maximum (or some cores at least). Is there some way you can view your cpu usage when running the game? If you see any cores running at 100% a new / faster cpu could help. You could have a look in Windows taskmanager, or perhaps the Nvidia overlay (if you run an Nvidia card).
Does this help in any way?
Thanks for your comment though!
Mine lag spikes like it's trying to auto save every 1-4 seconds and the CPU graph drops to 10 processes or sometimes 5. Don't have autosaving on or have an issue with it. But it seems like the game is trying to load assets and lag the fk out.
That's a difficult one to answer I'm afraid. To see if this is graphics settings related you could turn the game to the lowest preset and see if the issue then still persists. If it does, it's at least not solvable by turning down graphics. If it doesn't, then some graphic setting is causing the issue.
Perhaps also good to check if your memory is full or near full, or perhaps your VRAM? (wondering if it could be swapping of memory)
Perhaps also good to check if you have any background processes running that could cause the issue.
Hope these tips help for the first step in researching this issue.
But also thanks for commenting @jl644 !
Amazing thank you. I have tried all sorts of advice and this works for me. I don't know if playing on Xbox live makes a difference. I think we are behind with the patches but you have cured my flickering. New fan here 😁
Good to hear @ilearn8950. Yes, that flickering was terrible. Don't know actually if playing from Xbox has a disadvantage. If we are left behind with patches that would be a shame. Well... good we have each other to get the game running and looking well 😉
Great vid! Thanks for the tips 👍
@izziemoretti Thanks for your comment and glad I could help ofcourse!
They are saying VSync is actually not working well in this game and negatively impacting performance. I don't know if that's been fixed, but I'd rather keep it off for now. If anything I'll turn my monitor's G-Sync on.
@pheonix7289 thanks for replying. Yeah, if you have G-Synv, probably best to use that. My TV doesn't support that. V-Sync will always impact performance a bit, but it helps getting rid of tearing. But Yeah, G-Sync does that as well doesn't show tearing even if you get higher or lower fps.
One thing I want to say is Fog Settings. It makes this game's graphics even better, but loses so many FPS. Anyway without that, this is one of the best settings for optimization! 🙂😀
@woojunlee, thanks for the compliment 😁. And good to know you play with the fog off. Hope people see your reaction and get some inspiration from it.
When I turn on TAA my whole game gets blurry as hell! I‘ve seen this idea on many platforms now but it doesn‘t work for me do you know why?
Hi @joe7822,
TAA is a bit more blurry that SMAA. Are you running at a lower resolution perhaps? I think someone in the comments mentioned that when he turned on TAA things got too blurry but he was running at lower res.
If that is the case, you could try to increase resolution, but perhaps you need to lower res to play the game correctly. Don't know if the other AA solutions perhaps are a better fit than.
@@HEnKisGaming
Hey thanks for answering and trying to help!
I‘m am running everything on the highest possible settings.. My game still looks a bit blurry only the closest housings (like 5-10 meters) are sharp but everything else is a bit blurry and as I said when I turn on TAA everything gets super blurry… The first time I turned TAA on was because I had this super annoying flickering (especially the trees…) But I fixed that by turning off the day/ night cycle.
But yeah I just don‘t understand why my game doesn‘t look as good as it does with many TH-camrs especially since I do have everything on the highest settings..
@@joe7822 Haven't played the game for a while, I will try to have a look this evening to see if I can come up with something Joe. Maybe something in resolution scalers (but well, you probably have these off of set to quality levels). But well, don't know if I can help, but check if I see something. Will come back to you.
@@HEnKisGaming Thank you so much!
Hi @joe7822 ,
Can it be the Depth of Field?
I just turned it to Tilt-Shift, and then the center is clear, but everything around that is very blurry. Think it shouldn't really matter what the Anti-Aliasing is set to though, but well, can you have a look?
If it is set to Tilt-Shift, try setting it to Psysical or Disabled.
Or have you set an Upsampling Filter? Noticed if you set this to Catmull-Rom the screen gets quite blurred as well. Best use one of AMD's Fidelity FX filters. Or, is your computer is really up for it, disable dynamic resolution scale quality (but then you really need a beefy machine).
Let me know Joe! Hope it's one of these things.
Great video! I put similar settings with some things changed, like AA and dynamic res. TAA might look good in 4k, but unfortunately it looks awful in 1080p, making everything really blurry. The shimmering isn't that bad tho with SMAA in 1080p and imo it's more tolerable than constant blurriness.
Hi @fancreper, good tip for me to, future videos, perhaps have a look at 1080p as well. Thanks for the tip and for commenting ofcourse!
This video provides the most comprehensive comparison to date, but may I inquire about the population of this city? I'd like to make a record of it for future reference. Thank you in advance.
Hello @kakashiar, thanks for the compliment. The population of this city (Tiny Town is what the game calls it) is 3800 people. That is not very large and a larger city or town can negatively impact performance. I know TH-cam channel Gamers Nexus has quite a good look at that. Hope that helps in your research.
Great video! Informative 👍
Thanks @myemschalk5074, glad you found it informative!
11:57 looking at the part about reflection, you can see the bus detail does not load even if we are looking at it for a whole minute, that’s is disgusting and colossal order should be ashamed
We have been tweaking all the settings just to get a playable fps, but when I set up metro station and train stations with more than 500 cims waiting already make all the time spent wasted, because whenever there are a lot of cims the fps will drop significantly
@pakchi70 Yes, those texture really took a while to load. Now I did see some texture loading on the main menu, don't know if waiting for that, and then loading your save helps.
But yeah, this game is all about having a lot of cims so it's a shame fps drops when you have so much. Really hope Colossal Order can fix so you can play the game while running great. They did support Cities Skylines 1 for a long time, so I would like to think they are hard at work patching the game.
Anyways, thanks for your comment!
What kind of chair is that? looks cool
Haha, thanks @Kreemerz. It's an Ikea chair, the Markus. It's an okay one, the arm rests aren't adjustable, but I think they're just right for me.
Thanks did the latest patch change anything for you
@rbursell1, don't know yet, went back to playing Cyberpunk after this video 😇, but I will try to have a look soon and let you know!
@rbursell1 Just checked... it did do something. Game ran better, but I got the idea they changed something in the Level of detail. Think I saw some LOD's change on the high setting, which I didn't saw changing before when using the high setting. Curious.
tell us about your specs please!
Hi @vsbaratinho, ofcourse, my system is a Ryzen 7700x, GTX 4070Ti (12 GB VRAM), 32GB DDR5 ram. Those are the thing that matter most I guess.
And thanks for the comment!
What specs are you running on?
@@HEnKisGaming 13900k with 4090. My thoughts were "not a chance I'm buying this right now". Your video made me rethink it.
Nice system! Don't know how much worse performance gets when you have a bigger city, but so far I think there is headroom with your system.
Also, a recent Patch already improved performance a little bit I think... and there will probably be more patches (and more improvements in performance).
@@HEnKisGamingman I saw some bad bad reviews with 4090 before those patches. I'm glad to see things are getting better. Btw, the joke at the end was just awesome lol
Thought I was an old man mentioning Speed, but glad you liked it. 😁
Thank you!!
Well, thank you for the thanks ;) @linix4037
My laptop shuts itself off because it gets to hot while playing CS2 😂
@justdude7222 Ow no! And all black friday deals are over, so no new laptop I guess. Well, luckily it's winter then, consider playing CS2 outside 😅, natural cooling. 😛
Thanks for commenting!
im running a 3070 and i copied it to the teeth and it made my game look like im trying to zoom in a microscope
That doesn't sound good @SirCumcisi0n, does selecting a preset at least remove this issue? Don't exactly know which setting this could be. Is it an option to try switching them one by one to see which setting is causing this effect?
But also thanks for commenting!
@@HEnKisGaming I just ran it off preset and went 1 by one checked to see how it looks. Got it up to 50 fps running med settings
You could try and see if you are ok with running at 30Hz with v-sync on, if you find that playable, you could maybe set some settings higher. If you're ok with medium, perhaps your monitor of tv supports 50Hz, then you could play at that framerate with v-sync. (if your monitor supports g or free sync, use that of course)
Hopefully some optimizations for the game in time will make it a bit less heavy to run.
@@HEnKisGaming thanks boss!
jij bent sws nederlands hahaha
@ben-niej-barkii4888 zeker wel!! Weet niet of je tot het eind hebt gekeken, maar zeg steeds: Houdoe
Ik hoop dat dat de voornaamste weggever is en niet m'n Dunglish 😛
@@HEnKisGaming haha nee ben nog steeds aan het kijken naar je performance en graphic filmpje
Haha, ai, kut, dan is het m'n Dunglish Haha. 😅 Maar leuk dat je ff comment joh!
@@HEnKisGaming hahaha je kan vaak aan nederlanders horen dat ze nederlands zijn als ze engels praten :P
Ja, da is. Hopen dat Amerikanen of Engelsen het charmant vinden 😛. Misschien dat ik in een toekomstige video eens ga proberen 'm ook nederlands te dubben. Maar goed, tot die tijd zal je 't met m'n Nederlands accent moeten doen 😝