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我的生活放荡每天抽
我的生活放荡每天摸
我的生活放荡像只狗
我的生活放荡我的生活
我的生活这是我的生活
这是我的生活
Year 我的生活放荡
大学还没毕业因为我要出唱片

爸爸妈妈暴跳如雷可是我觉得随便
反正我的青春就像一张公益彩券
刮一刮很爽杠龟也无所谓
看到鬼岩石对我说我会红
玩音乐成为我每天胡混的借口
父母要我顺利毕业顺利当兵顺利找工作
可是我顺利进了烟毒勒戒所
这样的我如何定位
搞不清被塑造成饶舌明星还是无业游民
走在西门町看到很多流浪汉
感叹地笑一笑怎会有种亲切感
原本流浪汉的身边都有一只流浪狗
只是没有钱帮狗植入芯片他就一无所有
我也是流浪狗嘴里含着麦克风想问
谁又真正的在乎我
每天起床希望今天会是个好日子
我今年23要怎样渡过24
365天思考了不止365次
要问几次像个魔术数字
我的生活放荡每天抽
我的生活放荡每天摸
我的生活放荡像只狗
我的生活放荡我的生活
我的生活放荡
这是我的生活放荡
Year 我的生活放荡
Year 我的生活放荡
我放荡
时间一分一秒滴答滴答滴答滴
要如何才能尽快结束这场闹剧
让我想起以前看 "猜火车"觉得他们很屌
没想到现在自己也被提名最佳男主角
对于未来只有一个问号
我背号23 为什么不是麦可乔丹
反而像麦克鸡块变成廉价套餐
原来夜市里我的CD一张只要99
一片歌手会不会就是我
你说我堕落我还有几年可以这样过
我的生活放荡每天抽
我的生活放荡每天摸
我的生活
这是我的生活
这是我的生活
Year 我的生活放荡
我的生活放荡每天抽
我的生活放荡每天摸
我的生活放荡像只狗
我的生活放荡我的生活
我的生活放荡
这是我的生活放荡
Year 我的生活放荡
Year 我的生活放荡
Life's a struggle
Life's a struggle
正当我睁开双眼踏入这个世界
妈妈给我生命现在让我自生自灭
这让我恐惧
在我的眼里每个人都戴着面具
回想过去难道生命就是这样延续
我抽烟抽得我的肺都黑了
就像整个社会被人心笼罩着
它也是黑的
我背着宿命十字架
也渴望Power, paper and respect
我想这大概就是human nature
佛家说烦恼即是菩提我暂且不提
我倒是希望能够回到母体
老妈对不起我时常把你气得跺脚
你说你后悔当初没有堕胎把我堕掉
讨厌穿制服讨厌学校的制度
我讨厌训导主任的嘴脸讨厌被束缚
That's true 很多人不屑我的态度
他们说我太酷
警察不爽我都将我逮捕
Life's a struggle
Life's a struggle
Year 我的生活放荡
我的生活放荡每天抽
我的生活放荡每天摸
我的生活放荡像只狗
我的生活放荡我的生活
我的生活放荡
这是我的生活放荡
Year 我的生活放荡

Year 我的生活放荡
我的生活

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Gou’s song II reveal the artist’s personal struggles and insecurities as he navigates through life. The lines “我的生活放荡每天抽，我的生活放荡每天摸” speak of his seemingly reckless behavior, while “反正我的青春就像一张公益彩券，刮一刮很爽，杠龟也无所谓” suggests that he may not be taking his life seriously enough. Despite the disapproval of his parents and their expectations for him to graduate college, join the military and find a stable job, Gou’s trajectory takes an unexpected turn as he ends up in a drug rehab facility. He questions his identity and whether he is a rap star or a jobless wanderer but finds comfort in the company of stray dogs he encounters on the streets of Ximending. In the end, he reflects on his struggles and acknowledges that life can be a challenge.

The lyrics of this song offer a glimpse into Gou’s life journey, as he confronts social conventions, personal limitations and the pressures of different expectations. They paint a picture of a young person trying to find his place in the world and grappling with self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, the song is also a commentary on contemporary society and its contradictions, as well as a celebration of individuality and rebellion. Gou’s use of colloquial language and gritty imagery adds a streetwise flavor to the lyrics, making them more relatable and authentic to his target audience.

Line by Line Meaning

我的生活放荡每天抽
Every day in my life is wild and I smoke cigarettes.

我的生活放荡每天摸
Every day in my life is wild and I touch or feel things.

我的生活放荡像只狗
My life is like that of a stray dog - wild and free.

我的生活放荡我的生活
My life is wild and free - this is my life.

我的生活这是我的生活
This is my life - a wild and free one.

Year 我的生活放荡
My life has been wild and free for years.

大学还没毕业因为我要出唱片
I haven't graduated from college yet because I want to release an album.

爸爸妈妈暴跳如雷可是我觉得随便
My parents are angry and upset, but I don't really care.

反正我的青春就像一张公益彩券
My youth is like a charity lottery ticket - unpredictable and exciting.

刮一刮很爽杠龟也无所谓
Scratching and winning is fun, but even if I don't win, it doesn't matter.

看到鬼岩石对我说我会红
Even if I have to face difficulties, I will succeed in the end.

玩音乐成为我每天胡混的借口
Playing music has become my excuse to fool around every day.

父母要我顺利毕业顺利当兵顺利找工作
My parents want me to graduate, join the military, and find a job successfully.

可是我顺利进了烟毒勒戒所
However, I ended up in a smoking and drug rehabilitation center.

这样的我如何定位
I'm not sure how to define myself in this situation.

搞不清被塑造成饶舌明星还是无业游民
I'm confused whether I'm a rap star or an unemployed vagabond.

走在西门町看到很多流浪汉
Walking in Ximending, I see many homeless people.

感叹地笑一笑怎会有种亲切感
I smile wistfully and feel a sense of nostalgia and belonging.

原本流浪汉的身边都有一只流浪狗
Homeless people always have a stray dog by their side.

只是没有钱帮狗植入芯片他就一无所有
They don't have the money to implant a microchip in their dog, so they have nothing.

我也是流浪狗嘴里含着麦克风想问
I'm also a stray dog, holding a microphone in my mouth and wanting to ask:

谁又真正的在乎我
Who really cares about me?

每天起床希望今天会是个好日子
Every morning, I hope that today will be a good day.

我今年23要怎样渡过24
How am I going to spend my 24th year when I'm 23 now?

365天思考了不止365次
I've thought about it for more than 365 days and more than 365 times.

要问几次像个魔术数字
It feels like a magical number - asking for answers so many times.

时间一分一秒滴答滴答滴答滴
Time ticks away second by second.

要如何才能尽快结束这场闹剧
How can I end this farce as soon as possible?

让我想起以前看 "猜火车"觉得他们很屌
It reminds me of the show 'Guess the Train', which I once thought was cool.

没想到现在自己也被提名最佳男主角
Little did I know that I myself would be nominated for Best Male Actor.

对于未来只有一个问号
I have only one question mark for the future.

我背号23 为什么不是麦可乔丹
I wear the number 23, but why can't I be like Michael Jordan?

反而像麦克鸡块变成廉价套餐
Instead, I feel like a McDonald's chicken nugget, part of a cheap combo.

原来夜市里我的CD一张只要99
My CD used to be sold in the night market for only 99 dollars.

一片歌手会不会就是我
Maybe I'm the unknown singer they're listening to right now.

你说我堕落我还有几年可以这样过
You say I'm corrupt, but I still have a few years to live like this.

我的生活
My life - a wild and free one.

Life's a struggle
Life is difficult and full of challenges.

正当我睁开双眼踏入这个世界
When I opened my eyes and entered this world,

妈妈给我生命现在让我自生自灭
My mother gave me life, but now she lets me live and learn on my own.

这让我恐惧
This scares me.

在我的眼里每个人都戴着面具
To me, everyone wears a mask to hide their true selves.

回想过去难道生命就是这样延续
Looking back, is life just about continuing like this?

我抽烟抽得我的肺都黑了
I smoke so much that my lungs have turned black.

就像整个社会被人心笼罩着
It feels like society is covered in darkness and negativity.

它也是黑的
It's dark too.

我背着宿命十字架
I carry the cross of fate on my back.

也渴望Power, paper and respect
I desire power, money, and respect.

我想这大概就是human nature
I think this is just human nature.

佛家说烦恼即是菩提我暂且不提
Buddhists say that troubles are enlightenment, but I won't talk about that now.

我倒是希望能够回到母体
I wish I could go back to the womb.

老妈对不起我时常把你气得跺脚
Mom, I'm sorry I make you so frustrated that you stomp your feet.

你说你后悔当初没有堕胎把我堕掉
You said you regret not aborting me when you had the chance.

讨厌穿制服讨厌学校的制度
I hate wearing uniforms and dislike the school system.

我讨厌训导主任的嘴脸讨厌被束缚
I hate the look on the dean's face and loathe being restrained.

That's true 很多人不屑我的态度
It's true, many people look down on my attitude.

他们说我太酷
They say I'm too cool.

警察不爽我都将我逮捕
Even the police arrest me if they don't like me.

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Not Just Bikes

26w↑493

This was the best analysis of CS2 benchmarks I've seen.

I had plans to make a video and a few livestreams about CS2, but in the end I decided not to, because of performance issues.

It's fine for gaming channels to promote this game, but my channel is mostly made up of city enthusiasts, not gamers. They're not going to have the latest GPUs and CPUs, and it's likely they'll be disappointed.

I have a Radeon RX6650 XT and performance is not great, even at 1080p. I'm sure it will improve, but for now, it's not good enough.

Thankfully the base game is quite good, and as you said, that's what's most important. When they resolve the performance issues, I'll be happy to recommend this game.

Mike80528

26w↑61

@Gamers Nexus It's important to understand what a function is to understand what "Higher" refers to:

"The mipmap bias of the Texture.

A positive bias makes a Texture appear extra blurry, while a negative bias sharpens the Texture.

Note that using large negative bias can reduce performance, so it's not recommended to use more than -0.5 negative bias. In most cases you can achieve better sharpening of the Texture by using anisotropic filtering."

That is from Unity documentation...

Jamie + Lion

26w↑1

From CPP and Buffa’s data, X3D CPU’s don’t offer much or any performance improvement.

I think this makes sense as cache size is still very small compared to the total memory used within CS2. The cache isn’t being hit often enough for the lower latencies of the 3D cache design to help much.

If I understand it correctly, the X3D chips show the best performance in games with a tight gameplay loop & minimal state to keep track off. That way a larger proportion of memory requests can come from the cache.

Part of my work involves a lot of cache optimisation in financial crime detection software. It’s amazing how much of a difference it makes when the resident dataset goes over the cache size. For our code, it can be a 10x difference in performance and for a game I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a 15-20x difference. Compared to the caches, main memory is painfully slow. Faster DDR5 increases the bandwidth, but still doesn’t get much below 10ns. For a CPU at 5ghz, that’s 10 wasted cycles.

Hope that’s a useful answer for your question.

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Gamers Nexus

26w↑353

If you missed it, check out our prior Baldur's Gate 3 GPU benchmarks for a well-optimized title! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAjQXdwkgEE
Huge thanks to City Planner Plays for posting his save game files. Check out his content here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8WAaaW2FnctRI9coYJoUdA
Grab a PC-themed coaster pack, new mouse mat, or PC building Modmat to support our tests like this! https://store.gamersnexus.net/

DIDAmnesia

26w↑4

1700$ for 40fps is good, right? I mean movies are only 24fps... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Special-K

26w

I want Counter-Strike 2 benchmark! also can you test some games with the new intel APO

St S

26w↑2

Linus liked this game. Is there a trend here?

SPARTAN VI

26w↑1

Can you guys figure out how to get AMD Fluid Motion Frames to work on this game? The driver level toggle doesn't work, regardless of having exclusive fullscreen and VSync Off. I'm on the Gamepass version btw.

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City Planner Plays

26w↑5.5K

Whoa, I've been watching your channel for years and it's amazing to see our worlds collide! Thanks for the shout out and I appreciate you diving into this deeper!

Gamers Nexus

26w↑1.6K

HUGE thank you for what you posted. Someone who actually knows how to play the game building a 'real' city is a great benchmark. As fun as it would be to play the game to that point, our jobs revolve around testing things fast -- and spending the time learning the game and building a city would have taken forever just to benchmark it. Feel free to email sometime, maybe we can collab on future content as they patch the game!

FrostByte

26w↑209

@Gamers Nexus This was a treat I never expected from watching both of your channels. Would love to see an updated performance benchmark after they optimize CS2 more.

nitrousgranola

26w↑44

@FrostByte”CS2” it’s happening

Ian B.

26w↑34

Love the idea of a collaboration between you two on how to dial this game in patch by patch.

ImperatorSupreme

26w↑19

I was thinking of saying that GamersNexus would probably love the benchmark files, and apparently they found them regardless! Awesome bit of collaboration.

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Not Just Bikes

26w↑493

Bettermetal830

26w↑34

You should make a gaming channel where you can create your “perfect” city!

dijikstra8

26w↑37

As subscriber to all three, NJB, CPP and Gamers Nexus, I would love that! But probably better to wait for bicycles to be properly implemented anyways. Hopefully we can make both sub-par bike gutters and dutch-style separated paths!

Robert T

26w↑19

CS2, Counter Strike 2 conversations about cities skylines video?

DenebTM

26w↑4

@Robert TCities Skylines 2

Elliott De Graaf

26w↑36

woah. never expected to see NotJustBikes here, these crossovers are getting crazy

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Will Wunsche

26w↑249

The 4090 only getting 70fps at 1080p medium half way through a save is beyond mind blowing 😂

Fernando M.

26w↑62

Especially on a game that graphically looks at least 10 years old

User

25w↑8

Oh so its not just me being opinionated about how things look even if you manage to run everything on ultra/high. Looks worse than cs1 i rate

Floor Gang

25w↑4

The fact that they managed to add that much draw call and even GI to DX11 is also mind blown.

Dibbler

25w↑2

I have 50FPS in 4k with a 4090 and thats enough for such a game. But a little but ridiculous too. Finally a game apart from FS2020 that gets everything out of my system 😅

Will Wunsche

25w

@Dibbler It's certainly pushing your system to the limit and you are lucky to have it to keep the game in comfortably playable. But I doubt it is taking full advantage of your system or anyone's system for that matter 😂

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NosyNorseman

26w↑425

Developers optimization and GPU prices/performance is a fantastic combo - it’s a “Golden Age” for carefree customer satisfaction 😂

Deetheend

26w↑46

It’s amazing that since we no longer buy 💿 that games are now released broken

Kim Bo Kastekniv

26w↑5

Nvidia and AMD enjoy this.

Ideally Jekyl

26w↑4

@pj BIG RIGS OVER THE ROAD RACING. BIIIIIIG MUTHAFUCKIN RIIIIIIIIIGS

MechanicalMonk

26w↑31

@Deetheend I'm old enough to remember the games that released broken on disks and weren't fixed for a long ass time.

We naturally don't remember a lot of those.

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Balc0ra

26w↑29

I loved their response with "But it's designed to be played at 30fps, so it won't matter" even if it's 1080p on a brand new high end card. I had high hopes for this game. But if you drop by their subreddit, the bugs on top of the FPS made me glad I waited to buy it. Shame as the first one was made in the wake of the failure of Simcity. And it did it so well.

Dar Cos

26w↑3

I'm able to get 35+ fps (35k Pop) on a gtx 1080 with an older high core cpu. I'm running 1440p mostly on medium, but did drop some stuff. For me, graphics is not really an issue. No stutter BTW

El Gonzo

26w↑1

Yeah, you can't make this shit up. It's frigging hilarious really how little shit game devs give about PC gaming these days with few exceptions, even if the largest part of the target customer base for the product are actually PC gamers. Lol...

Chris Eaton

25w↑3

@El Gonzo This one bit them in the butt on the console end too, since they had to delay the console release by months. With this kind of awful performance even on high end PCs, I'm not sure it would pass console certification at all. Sony won't be pleased seeing this struggling to do 30FPS at 1080p on a PS5 hooked up to a giant 4k living room TV. It would make the whole platform look awful.

whizzie

25w↑1

The game doesn't even look good.

FrostByte

26w↑357

Btw the bug with inverse scaling is the "Texture Quality Settings", where Very Low has Mip Bias = 3 and High has Mip Bias = 0. You can see the specifics in the Advanced tab, but for anyone reading, just set this to Very Low.

brkbeat junkie

26w↑8

That makes sense, it’s always been inverse with mip bias settings.

Gamers Nexus

26w↑185

Does that mean the developer basically used the numerical value incorrectly? Crazy.

Anno2021

26w↑3

Thank you !!! Thank you !!! this solved my problem !

Mike80528

26w↑61

doltBmB

26w↑3

That's not a bug.

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Alexey

26w↑1.4K

rtx4090 is a 1080p card. What a time to be alive

blackomegax

26w↑87

Always has been.

Fraser Stewart

26w↑241

1080p with 2005 graphics.

lavaregion

26w↑21

@blackomegax lol what? the 4090 is insanely powerful and can play some games at 8K even

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Isaac Steen

26w↑38

I LOVE that the GTX970 is still being used in benchmarks. It represents older cards, low-power cards, and the used market, all in one. It's still such a great card to aim for, glad to see it getting some love :)

smakfu

26w↑4

Thanks Steve! Seriously though, this really helped clean up a lot of obnoxious misinformation around what’s going on with performance settings in this release. It’s pretty nuts that they released it in this condition, but at least now we know what’s what.

Joey Cordeiro

26w↑118

I will say. I appreciate the hard work in getting these reviews out so fast. But with the state of games lately being released and then fixed after I think we would all forgive you for testing much fewer cards until the games become stable. Much love.

Ryan Johnson

26w

Seriously, get a few baseline to see if its even worth more stringent testing.

Unbound

26w

Though I suppose it is still useful for people who want to play right now.

MIAwuwu 22

25w↑1

Honestly, when you looking at the bigger picture, it was kinda a big f*ck ups. City management genre is one of those genre that so niche many people wouldn't touched it as a their first game or primary game to do a living (kinda like racing simulation or flight simulation) because comparatively to a MMORPG or a PvP, you're basically got control of your what you want in your space instead of hopeful to whatever gacha gods their had which also mean that if you screw up from beginning you could trashed your game.

Because of this niche market, you got yourself a very dedicated player that would played your game without hesitant (which i think is also where the problem began). That means you don't want to sacrifice your gameplay or technical aspect just for the sake of visual, because again the people who buy your game are the exact same people with them might be upgrading their pc not so much often. If the developers had been think to that way, they could avoid the mess that they've got. Design or build your game based on what was the slowest pc they get brand new instead of the fastest pc they get.

Jacob Hollenbeck

26w↑3

Appreciate this coverage! Need to keep holding game devs accountable for terrible game optimization, which falls to consumers to need unnecessary upgrades

PinjaNinja

26w↑50

The entire CS community thanks you Steve and the entire GN team, this will surely provide CS2 gamers a better experience!

Shadow 133

26w↑16

Yes, this game will certainly increase Counter Strike sales 😂

Bram esendam

26w↑28

Been watching City Planner Plays so much over the years. Glad to see he got some recognition over the benchmarks he did :D

JJL Gaming

26w↑12

This is exactly what I was looking for. Clear, precise, and full of good tips on how to improve performance. I have a 3060 Ti and I'm very surprised that a graphics card that is only 3 years old and still costs somewhere around €500 today is struggling this much with a city builder.
All devs should test their games extensively for the hardware that their buyers have, not for the best hardware available in the market. It's just common sense.

Christian Ryan

26w

I also just got my first setup, 3060ti and now I’m really regretting it, feels like it’s just immediately going to get outpaced. Guess I’ll play most current ish games for a while until these games get some patches

Lemon cake

26w↑1

@Christian Ryan If devs cannot be bothered to do basic optimization then why should we wait N' give them the chance? Uninstall/Refund is the best voice.

Jalex21

26w↑2

@Lemon cake But the developers, Colossal Order, do not control the date of release, the publisher, Paradox Interactive does. No doubt the developers are deeply frustrated that the work they've put in up to now is being undermined like this. I know I would be.

squidwardo

25w

@Christian Ryan It definitely won't just because they released some unoptimized games. I also get about 60-70fps in this game at 1440p with a regular 3060 so these tests don't tell the full story at least for most people

TechnoFuzzy

26w↑66

Please follow this up with a CPU test, i would really like to see how intel vs AMD does in this game, specifically 3D vcache. I know CS1 loves the 3D cache CPUs. Thanks Techno

Nickayz

26w

Agreed!

Kiloku2

26w↑5

If they can figure out how to get the simulation tick rate, it'd be perfect. A city builder could run at a buttery smooth graphical frame rate but have extremely slow simulation if the CPU can't keep up, making it unplayable.

asmi06

26w

It doesn't matter what cpu you use as the bottleneck is clearly in gpu. I'm so happy I held off buying the game before launch as I play at 1440p and will never go back to 1080p. Hopefully in a few months devs will make it playable on my 3080ti at 1440p.

TechnoFuzzy

26w

@asmi06 i run 1440p but i have a rtx 3080, so i dont really have a problem, but i cant play it on high or ultra, so i run medium, with 4 things turned off. You cant really tell a difference tbh

asmi06

26w

@MrTechnofuzz wait until you have a 100k pop and then we'll see if you have a problem 😉

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Hi Ho

26w↑7

The shot with the reverse order texture quality on the billboard is comedic gold.

JC

26w

yeah very amusing

LK P

26w↑6

I had blinking shadows and game looked horrible almost unbearable with shadows on. I saw a post about using TAA under advanced settings in regards anti aliasing and it stopped the blinking shadows and improved FPS by about 8 for me and made everything look better.

AlienRenders

26w↑541

I'm a developer (I've implemented megatexturing and other texturing systems). The textures getting blurrier with better settings can be due to multiple factors. The most obvious is that they decreased the max LOD number instead of increasing it. This can happen when you use inverted LOD numbers internally (quite common). Some people like using 0 as the highest resolution id. But if you increase that number, then you're gonna get blurrier textures. For example, if maxLOD = 0 and minLOD = 5 for the minimum setting and the code is set to increase maxLOD for higher settings, you'd get this problem. Don't ask me how I came up with this example :)

What I couldn't tell is if they are using oversampling in the higher settings. If so, then the shaders are supposed to adjust to keep reading the same texture LOD (ie. a lower resolution texture than the one demanded by the increased resolution otherwise you get aliasing artifacts). So if there's MORE oversampling at higher settings, it could be that their texture LOD adjustment is off. Sometimes, this adjustment is done twice by mistake because the engine takes care of it and the devs forget to remove the old custom shader code. IOW, an earlier version of the engine didn't automatically account for this, but a later version did and they never updated their shaders so the adjustment is done twice.

1Grainer1

26w↑5

from what i saw, biggest fps hit comes from physical DoF setting, is that something that has to more natural/precise simulation of how eye adjusts for distance?

FrostByte

26w↑29

This is caused by the "Texture Quality Settings" option. Setting this to High makes Mip bias = 0 and Filter mode = Trilinear Filtering, whereas Very Low makes Mip bias = 3 and Filter mode = Bilinear filtering. In this case, Mip bias should be 3 to fix the blurry textures issue.

vamwolf

26w↑4

game internal upscaler . seems the old one cant handle the new game engine.

yes yes

26w↑2

@1Grainer1 AFAIK DOF isn't that expensive, but I am only experienced in rendering performance, usually you can actually use strong DOF to get better performance by lowering the LOD of what is blurred, its often used in films/games/movies to hide unpolished areas. Which is part of the reason I always disable DOF in games

1Grainer1

26w↑1

@yes yes my bro got uplift from 40 to 90- ish fps or more just from disabling DoF and i think physical was default, to it was quite expensive in this case

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Steven Koppelkam

26w↑1

Hoping to see some more care reviews soon, im mentally planning a build but i wanna see how heavy hitters stack up against the new arrivals

InsaneFirebat

26w↑1

I like seeing the benchmarks for individual settings. Tuning that stuff can feel like such a waste of time when you don't know what's worth experimenting with.

fr0stb1te

26w↑14

This video actually helped me get from 25-30 fps when zoomed out to 35-40 without it looking any worse as far as I can tell so thank you very much!

Party Pooper

26w

BALLLLL'n!

Matt L

26w↑18

1080p at 30fps target on modern hardware is an insane performance target. This has been a major concern for consumers for like 5-6 years now. I am also one who starts to get headaches dealing with flicker/stutter under ~60fps. Its not just being petty, its hoping consumers get what they paid for without the expense of their health.

Lemon cake

26w↑9

Uninstall/Refund. The biggest voice. RTX4080 getting under 60fps @1080 is just unacceptable in 2023.

DMZ

26w↑3

Join the club, also get fuckin headaches when games run sub 30-60

squidwardo

25w

@Lemon cake Sadly the people that can afford cards like that aren't the type of people who will boycott games because of bad performance

Michael Edlin

26w↑21

Great video, why is no one talking about the advanced graphics settings within the menu, there are loads of options which could improve performance with the time. For example I found using TAA in the anti aliasing settings makes my game look nicer with no performance hit. Would love someone to run through these settings. Cheers

Jamie + Lion

26w↑7

TAA also preventing the strobing shadows which is a huge consideration for accessibility.

LK P

26w↑4

Yes I had blinking shadows and game looked horrible, I saw a post about TAA and it stopped the blinking shadows and improved FPS by about 10 for me.

Joe Marais

26w↑361

I think it was pretty nice of Paradox to let people play CS2 in its Beta stage. I can’t wait for the game to fully release next year when all the bugs are ironed out.

SpoonHurler

26w↑85

Why fund beta testing when the community will do it for you?

ThunderingRoar

26w↑36

and alongside a dozen DLCs

Opus

26w↑9

*free beta testing

SpoonHurler

26w↑61

@Opus better than free... people are paying to beta test

Active Entropy

26w↑9

@SpoonHurler even better, free marketing.

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Brian Russo

25w↑2

I'm quite curious to see what happens over the next coming weeks. From what I was seeing in a few places was that someone found what could in fact be causing it. High Poly renders of ever citizens teeth. Weird and way out there, but it seems even when you pull the camera all the way, it's still working to render those polys. This may very well line up with how perf drops off a cliff with high pop counts. That said though, so far with a mix of various settings, I've been in the 50's for the most part at 4k with my 5800X3D and 7900 XTX. Here's to hoping we get some fixes and soon.

Sakurakouji Luna

26w↑3

Would be good the see benchmarks on even higher population city, like 200k or more.

Meghan Travis

26w↑4

I was expecting performance to be bad, as the first one still struggles to run well even on high end systems but I didn't expect it to be THIS bad, hopefully updates will help

Eugene Havens

26w↑2

Your settings for Starfield (another poorly optimized PC game) worked great. Thanks for covering gaming in the same in-depth way you do everything else.

h91

26w↑6

Level of Depth is an interesting setting, because having that on high tanks my framerate, even in a menu. Setting it to low gives me a very playable 30fps in game 🙃 I imagine the devs knew the game wasn't quite ready for release and yet were pushed to release it on time

Exodus

26w↑4

Level of Detail

Jackson Cantin

26w↑175

The bizarre thing about this game is that the simulation seems to run quite well, it's truly just the graphics that are slow as hell. That seems like a first for a city builder.

Frank S.

26w↑5

I was wondering if the bad graphics performace is missleading as parts of the simulation get offloaded to the gpu? resulting in the illusion that the simulation is running really well, while it's actually a big part of the problem.

Unai F.

26w↑15

@Frank S.They didn't bother making proper lod. What are the odds they made that kinda optimization for the sim? Not that it makes much sense, not everything can be GPU offloaded and a city simulation seems one of the worst things to move there.

Frank S.

26w↑7

@Unai F. Well it's the core part of their engine. If the didn't optimize that, any other optimization will be 100% useless as a slower simulation speed will slow down everything else.
TransportFever 2 got an optimization where they offloaded some cpu stuff to the gpu. That resultat in an 2x->3x Framerate increase! I was going op from 60fps early game and 30fps midgame to 100 fps early game and 70fps mid game, while the late game actually was playable, something you coudln't say before as the simulation would slow down soooo much, that you would be far below 30fps

ALex alex

26w↑5

i have 400 hours in the first CS and now i have 30 in CS2 in a 4090 7950x3d and i can say the only changes i noticed where mostly the traffic now u can actually fix it before it was almost imposible to fix if u wherent a profesional, also trading and in general exporting materlias feels better, everything else feels the same but with a lot less content

Fenyrmaster MK2

26w↑2

@ALex alexnow thats dissapointing, honestly i was expecting something so much better, content wont be a problem in the future since they Will eventually upload DLCs.

I Will stick with the 1st game until i get a computer from NASA or when you can actually play the game with a mid tier system.

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UnsaltedSkies

26w↑11

We've been needing this honest appraisal of C:S2 given how many reviewers who were given advanced copies were under NDA preventing them from speaking about the game negatively.

Wei

26w↑4

Despite the games flaws I appreciate the advanced option menu. You can tweak every setting in detail which allows you to really optimized. For example you can make post process effect like dof or AO run at lower resolution than native, giving a big boost at no visual cost. It sadly isn't the deafult only at the low preset. But you could use the high AO setting, turn of fullscreen effect and get most of the performance from low but without the visual cutbacks

matroid10

26w

I have always noticed that aside from ultra shadows and ray tracing, post-processing effects are often the most GPU hungry and FPS killing options. Good rule of thumb to just never use depth of field. It's hard for me to live without ambient occlusion though. Lol

Hatem Engab

26w↑3

Bless you all, I really appreciate every detail. You guys making a great efforts and I never saw anyone doing it like you. Without you I will be lost.

Arty B

26w↑1

Steve, I also started with Caesar 3 as my first strategy/city builder game. What an absolute gem that game was, it had its flaws but I still go back to it and replay it every few years. Thanks for the reminder!

Alex Tiu

26w↑7

Nice and detailed video as always, top notch analysis from Gamers Nexus. I wanted to see some benchmarks with AMD 3D CPU as well, since I have one and I wanted to see if there will be some differences.

Jamie + Lion

26w↑1

indoorjetpacks

26w↑184

Excellent additional benchmarking follow up from city planner plays. Didn't know Steve was into city builders! Thanks for the extra info and testing guys. Would be curious to see an update after the console release to see what the optimizations end up being there

Gamers Nexus

26w↑122

I actually still play them, too! I've been playing Kingdoms & Castles lately!

ollehkacb

26w↑19

Dude, that game makes you lose track of time

"Just one more farm, a few more walls, oh I got to build the barracks.

arcadeportal32

26w↑1

@GamersNexus I have well over 3000hr into Cities Skylines 1, even though CS2 isn't a hit yet, I am sure they will add mod support which by then should fix many of the overly heavy poly models they have in the game with lower ones. I really do like the road tools playing it more now. Getting about 45fps now at med settings.

Daniel Coffey

26w↑1

You have Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom I assume? The GOG version includes the higher resolution patch by default.

Kumarsalib

25w↑1

Thanks for the incredibly detailed work. I'll definitely be waiting on this game.

doltBmB

26w↑1

the big issue seems to be a lack of proper sorting and instancing, since LOD and shadows both have such a massive impact, remember that shadows work by rendering the city a second time from the suns perspective. also it seems that shadows always have some kind of distance filtering on them, which is usually insanely expensive, it would be nice if that effect could be toggled separately from the shadows.

pyromen321

26w↑2

I’ve never wished for a source code leak, but I’d love to dive into this. How can you make something look so bad but require so much power to playably render?

Jesper

26w↑1

Excellent and detailed review Steve! Makes me realize that I either have to buy a new GPU or wait before buying the game. Keep up the good work!

Garrett Kajmowicz

26w↑1

It would have been nice to see at least one of the higher-end Intel Arc cards in the list as well.

Totally not an internet troll

26w↑443

This makes one appreciate just how well coded our simulation is. Steve looks so realistic, and so do I. My cats actually create fur balls, and my wife's makeup gets all over her area of the bathroom. It's like the devs just want to rub my nose in the realism of reality.

Анатолий Бронштейн

26w↑32

Yeah, but they still couldn't figure out how to deterministically calculate microworld all in parallel and all at once, so they had to plug it up with quantum weirdness. I mean, the cat might as well not even exist unless I look at it.

win one soon

26w↑10

True Hopefully they don't release the ww3 dlc that they have been talking about forever. The GTA 6 of war..... Lol....

Digital_Jedi

26w↑20

Does anybody know how to get rid of the "colorblind" debuff? I've been stuck playing with it for as long as I can remember and nothing I do works.

PON PON PATA PON

26w

@Digital_Jedi just be glad you don't have the "dyslexia" or "dyscalculia" debuff…

marlon.

26w↑4

@Digital_Jedi its pure rng, only can change ur debuffs by creating a new character

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Picard

26w↑1

I was hoping on a Cities Skylines 2 Benchmark from you guys! Great work, thanks. I hope you do one for CPU too. I have a friend who wants to build a PC just for this game. Your data is really helpful in making recommendations for him.

Carpe Lunam

26w↑4

Normally youd find comments below telling people how their poor or the game is just next gen, but Steve's analysis is so on point and in depth theres no argument to be had. lol Its like clockwork on game releases at this point just like the optimization updates that come a month or two later from launch.

Marx Maiale

26w↑1

It would have been nice to have some Arc results as well, particularly the a380 as it looks closest to the upcoming integrated gpu on meteor lake.
Also seen a video showing an average of around 30 fps on 13500 integrated graphics, basically bottomed out on settings, but functional. As casual game people tend to live on various integrated graphics on laptops, I would like to see if it has any functionality there. Even though it is clearly short of the min specs.

MasterDisaster282

26w↑4

Damn, this video is so complete. It helped me a lot with optimizing the settings. Thanks a lot!

Nickayz

25w↑1

Great review! Are you going to make one for CPUs, too? Including some HEDT Threadrippers so we can see, how well the game really scales CPU-wise?

sultanofsick

26w↑199

That fog is absolutely TERRIBLE and as a result the "very low" looks by far the best to me.

Tommi Laakso

26w↑25

Yeah, don't like that bleached look at all. But the trees look terrible without the shadows too.

Gareth T

26w↑26

Oddly thought the same, fog seems to just ruin the image quality completely.

BurntFaceMan

26w↑9

Ps1 games used fog to make them render less and load faster...maybe the devs were trying for that...

Teutorix Aleria

26w

Best settings for me have been medium with fog and DOF turned off and AA custom set to TAA. Subjective but I think it looks the best.

Oblivion'sLegend

26w↑11

@BurntFaceMan Old games used fog to hide low rendering distances. GTA San Andreas is a good example of a game that did this.

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Zylon FPV

26w

It would be interesting to see CPU scaling here, though it does seem like it’s GPU limited in almost all cases

John Hall

26w↑1

It would have been nice to see a Intel/AMD comparison. I did the same(ish) test (albeit current patch) and my 7800x3D (OC 5.1Ghz) with 4090 FE (OC 3050Mhz) was showing 12% higher than the test even taking the patch uplift into account. This may suggest vCache has an impact?

E.L. Crisler

26w

With a game like this I would think CPU would play a role in this as well. Can we see testing of CPU scaling and if X3D makes a difference?

Bass Liberators

26w↑2

With a 5700XT I was getting significant juttering with Vsync OFF, and got significantly smoother frame timings with Vsync ON, counterintuitively.

Josh Hiroti

26w↑1

Awesome episode to see. Been addicted to this genre and City Planner Plays vids.

gintozlato

26w↑692

The fact that they considered this a relesable state for the game is insane

Voxelle

26w↑66

Paradox is so dumb. They knew better than to make the devs release it in this state.

Jedda678

26w↑58

The worst part is THIS WAS IN THEIR BETA BUILDS. Did they not listen to any feedback from the people they sent these out to? Like how rushed were they? I get it CS:1 released with FPS issues but it ran far better. I would hate to see what people get to when EVERYTHING is unlocked and has buildings, cities, cims, and traffic running on it. This seems like they were making this for future hardware cause there is no way internally at their studios this game even ran close to 60fps.

logirex

26w↑77

People just need a better gpu than the 4090. Clearly the game is next gen 🤦‍♂

Jorge Augusto

26w↑11

Here's the thing. They didn't. They even said that. But they said this was the best moment to release the game so they did it anyway

Voxelle

26w↑54

@Jorge Augusto Hope it's worth the drama and lost sales for them, then.

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TheLoneWolfling

26w↑1

For simulations, it would be useful to plot frame time or frame time / <unit> (e.g. time/1K pop). You can reconstruct these numbers from FPS, but it gets real annoying real quick.

It is far easier from frame time to eyeball 'is this linear/quadratic/exponential scaling with pop' than FPS, at least personally speaking.

Spartacus

26w

Hey Steve! I was wondering if you and the team would do a gpu benchmark and optimization for Ark Survival Ascended. The new system requirements are quite a big step from Ark Survival Evolved, and it would be very interesting to see which gpus offer better performance, since the game curently supports DLSS but not FSR, while at the same time requiring large amounts of VRAM, which is Nvidia's kryptonite at the moment. Love the videos and the amount of details you and the guys at GN bring to us, the viewers!

Etka Mutlugün

26w↑9

I feel like this is likely partially a Unity Engine limitation, there are not many games pushing the engine this far. Honestly it is crazy that this game is in Unity.

McKazou

26w↑1

They really should have an easy toggle in game. Like if you toggle it you get really simplified geometry so you can dash everywhere on the map with 100+ fps for a 2060 and when you want to admire your city. You toggle back

lem0nad3z

26w↑14

what bugs me is that the game doesn't look hugely insane to justify this kind of performance.

[;'

26w↑2

it looks like the first game in 2015 should have looked. Even the trees are so bad unless zoomed in completely

Frank S.

26w↑1

I'm wondering if parts of the simulation get offloaded to the gpu? Transport Fever 2 implemented that after release. Before that you where always stuck below 60fps, closer to 30 just because of the simulation beeing that heavy on the cpu.

[;'

26w

nope@Frank S.

squidwardo

25w

@Frank S. it must be, because there is almost no load whatsoever on the CPU. I get about 10-15% cpu usage with 99% gpu usage

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A N

26w↑1

Did y'all try testing the DoF setting with every other setting on high? I got what seemed to be a much bigger than 5% improvement on my 3080 ti and I checked and made sure no other setting was changed even in the advanced graphics settings menu and dynamic resolution was not checked. I went from around 30-40ish at 1440p high to 45-60ish. Probably a 30-ish% improvement on average. With the patch, I kept this improvement even with DoF on. Of course, it could simply be that there's some hidden scaling in there in tandem with DoF and the new patch and the menu could be lying to me...just curious if y'all looked at it because I don't see optimization benchmarks for anything other than 1080p low.

Reaga85

26w↑4

I'm really enjoying the recent in depth looks into specific games, and the setting by setting variance. So thanks for the info on these.

With CS:2 I'm curious how CPU performance affects the game. Simulation games are often pretty CPU heavy, but is the graphical limitations making any CPU difference meaningless in this title? Or is there just as much variance when comparing CPUs in the title as with GPUs?

ThingGoBoom

25w↑1

Seems like the simulation is almost completely separate to the graphics so they don't really affect each other. FPS seems to flatten out while still playable, meanwhile the simulation speed just gets slower and slower the more population increases. The fastest CPUs seem to be capable of up to around 400K population, while a more average or last gen CPU will get maybe 330K population before grinding to a halt.

Ryan O'Callaghan

26w

The patch improved my performance a lot at 4K High (RTX 4090). At launch I was only getting ~ 22 - 24 FPS but the patch has increased my 4K High performance by at least 50%. 30 FPS + does actually feel alright in this game and I am not all that bothered about going higher especially with the inevitable CPU limitation kicking in as the city gets larger and you zoom in to admire it.

LittleMe

25w

I wonder if a better way to indicate the performance cost of specific graphics settings would be better presented as cost in milli or microseconds per frame instead of framerate lost or both

NoirMorter

26w↑2

I just built a PC and usually afterwards I fall out of keeping up with LTT, Gamers Nexus among others Jay included. But this time I've kept watching you guys! Great job on the video.

An Old Man and His Games

26w↑9

It’s somehow unsurprising that Steve loves games about building things and analysing data.

Tomasz G.

26w↑1

26:20 Depth of Field definitely gave me like 80FPS _in the main menu_. Not in the game. But in the main menu. For some reason. Virtualising Textures (Vulkan pre-cache for shaders?) was already reported as finished.

Bensam123

26w↑1

Biggest issue I have with the game right now, besides obvious performance issues is day/night cycle. Right around sunrise and sunset it will causes shadows to crawl all over the place. It's extremely noticeable and distracting. The only way to fix it is either turning shadows off or turn the day/night cycle off which isn't an option in my opinion. Wish the video addressed these issues, but you wouldn't notice without playing a full day through the game.

Good video none the less. The real kicker here is even between presets, the advanced settings have even more settings that weren't tested here. Off/low can still have tick boxes and toggles that aren't adjusted properly even for those presets, which adds even more problem to testing things here.

It also would've been nice if GN figured out what setting was causing the textures to get worse at higher presets. That has to be some weird setting in the background. My guess is the game has a lot of issues with improperly setup texture streaming and LoD settings, which I'm sure they'll figure out in the future.

Titanium Mechanism

26w↑1

Is there a follow-up on the Starfield GPU benchmarks in the pipeline? I'd like to know, if and by how much performance improved over the last weeks.

george hill

26w

Thanks for the tests Steve. I'm going to wait a few months until the game is somewhat more optimized.

Adam the Kid

26w

THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this! Was looking to upgrade my graphics card and this helped me make a decision :)

Enire

26w↑126

It was kind of strange not seeing a 1440 benchmark table, I haven't played anything at 1080 for a little while now.

Corkdawg82

26w↑10

3440x1440 medium settings on a 4070ti, I was at 45 fps.

arcadeportal32

26w

@Corkdawg82I was also getting about 45fps my OC Strix RTX 2060 Super. It is not running bad least compared to my modded CS1. Though it is pretty buggy. At 3440x1440

GK

26w↑1

I'm getting 25fps on my 2070super with 120k population

Mantakamis

26w↑1

@arcadeportal32 "modded" ... many assets are not optimized my guy. Dont push false claims that modded CS1 runs worse than unmodded. Many of vanilla assets especially trees are super unoptimized there. Same with CS2

TotalXPvideos

26w

@TheKlipski 1440p 45 fps medium settings on a 3070, granted that's only just started.

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phoenix7289

26w

I would just like to say thanks for covering this! And any plans for follow ups to this?

Paul Jones

26w

Thanks for your work on this it’s appreciated 👍

petar b photography

26w↑1

great video, i been having great time playing CS2 one setting i did change i don't think mentioned in video is AA to use TAA instead of SMAA the edges look way better esp when high texture or shadows.. do you think you can do a CPU benchmark? i hit the pop cap of 180k on Ryzen 7600x when even at time speed at 1x the simulation lot slower. the FPS still pretty good avg 28-35 with my 6800XT though...

english_crusade

26w↑1

Pre-patch I saw 40fps with depth of field and motion blur on but if I disabled I got over 60fps. Post patch I don’t see that any more. I agree something else under the hood is happening but it was very true disabling these settings made a significant impact on performance

TheSteelRodent

26w↑2

You guys have done a few of these bechmarks test now, and one thing you leave out that I think is important, is to include the developers listed required and recommended hardware as it says a lot about their target platform. In this case it's a 30 fps game that can't maintain or even reach 30 fps on their listed hardware on default setttings. The fact you also test mainly on the latest high-end GPUs when multiple surveys show the most common GPUs currently in use are the 980, 1080, and 1660, means your benchmarks cater to the <1% who can afford the latest overpriced space heater and are not super relevant for the vast majority of gamers.

Majamaus

26w↑1

theres a 970, a 1060, a 1080 and a few more common cards in the video though?

Cake AtNoon

26w↑42

This is the kind of objective empirical analysis only Steve has proven himself consistently capable of. Every GN subscriber was anticipating this in depth review and Steve did not disappoint!

InsideLine

26w

IDK though, he uses the presets a ton for comparison through out the video then goes on to say the presets are garbage and don't create a nice performance/quality scale for graphic.

If they knew the presets were garbage, I would prefer comparisons between custom settings optimized for performance or quality (or different shades of grey in between those). I know that most casual gamers will just choose a preset for graphics but I would guess the average demographic of this channel would be 100% willing to choose custom optimized settings.

jtveclipse12

25w↑1

Turning on Developer Mode and disabling the Cims from rendering greatly increases FPS (20-30fps gains for me). For whatever reason they either didn't make LODs for Cims or they aren't working.

CacklingGoblinX

26w

Thank you, very insightful. I hope they can improve the performance for this game, because I really like it otherwise.

Imbellis

26w

Hey GN, love the work you do!
The bg noise seems to pitch-up intermittently through the video (most noticeable at 4:26, 4:35, 7:16-7:21).
Super minor and not distracting; I'm mostly just curious as to why it's there. Hell, it may be an artifact of transcoding.

Thanks for the card comparison! Looks like I'm going to hold off buying until they do a few more QC passes!

Bartosz Kosianowski

26w

As you've became bound to 110 FPS in Very Low tests , did you consider changing CPU to something stronger? Maybe future video?

123bigmam

26w

Would be nice to have some detailed Cpu Benchmarks aswell. Would be Interesting to know how many cores the game can use. They defenetly nailed cpu performance on this. My 8600k can handle a 100.000 pop city with min 45 fps in a cpu limited scenario on 1440p lowest graphics preset. The Load is well balanced across all 6 cores.
Gpu performance is oubviusly shit but thats a lot easyer to fix than cpu performance.
They released (maybe had to realease) it to early wait half a Year to a year and it will be a top of the line City simulator.

Engioc-Games

26w↑29

Most likely a case of the publisher wanting a release no matter what, even though the developer clearly knew, and was more than likely telling Paradox, that the game wasn't done and needed more time. When will publishers ever learn to stop meddling in game development and give games more time, it's not like they needed to start getting sales, it was already available for people to buy on pre-order. I know some will hold off on buying it till release, but if they buy it and then discover it's an unfinished game you end up losing them anyway with people opting for refunds until it's fixed, so people that would have bought it at full price, now getting a refund and will likely now wait for a sale. Also, I don't know what the rush was for, surely a few extra weeks would have prevented this from happening, and you'd still get it out the door a day or 2 before Christmas, and doing so also means there is no option of a Christmas sale due to the steam policy preventing new titles from being on sale, forcing people to buy it at full price.

Reclusing Recluse

26w↑6

Because they've seen years of people buying crappy unplayable games at launch. Why would they allow for the devs to actually do their jobs well when they can just release the game, get millions, and just have the devs slowly roll out patches to make the game actually playable.

The amount of people that end up getting a refund is most likely a minority compared to people that end up keeping the game hoping it'll become better in the future (ask any person that plays Bethesda games).

Welcome to the world of Triple A gaming, publishers do what they do because it's been working for almost if not 10 years now. And it's not like you can know if a game's gonna be shit at launch until it comes out and they've already got your money.

Channel

26w↑1

There's also just being incompetent at their jobs. For example the Texture LOD bug where 'Very Low' is actually the highest setting because whoever was in charge of setting the Mip Bias didn't understand what that is and thought a bigger number meant better when it's the opposite.

Lemon cake

26w

Uninstall/Refund. The biggest voice one can have. Devs of the 21st cent need to up their game. All the software & pc hardware N' the 90s shits over everything being released.

Chase

25w

Huge fan of your channel and CS1 is my most played game, thanks for this benchmark!

Ky Qg

26w↑1

Gamers Nexus doing something on Cities Skylines 2? 🤯 Unfortunately it looks like the performance on my system will be 💩, as it's closer to the low end of the specs, unless they perform some sort of miracle with patches. I appreciate all the work from you and City Planner Plays to help try to clear things up.

Aeterno Solus

26w↑1

I prefered the very low setting on long shots as the others looked like a reflection in a muddy puddle.

MrNotSpecified

26w

You should offer this sort of benchmarking as a service for game companies. Might make some money finding these bugs before release.

Jonathan

26w↑10

Amazing to see City Planner Plays' map being used for the benchmarking. One interesting thing about the patch, it made the game actually playable at 1440p on my RX 6800, previously it was running at 25fps, with Paradox's recommended settings it was reaching 35-40fps on an empty map. Given that 1080p on a 1440p screen looks terrible, I was playing at 1152p. But now, after the patch, I'm getting 45-55fps at 1440p with 8k pop, and I did tested on a 100k pop map, it hovers around 40-55fps, so things really improved. Also, 100k pop is really hammering the CPU, 3x speed pushes 90% utilization across all the cores on my 5900X, while the GPU sits around 80% utilization (so the CPU will be the bottleneck at some point).

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26w

Yup. with a 7600x, it can manage 3 speed (its actually 4x simulation speed) at 100k, but not at 140k population.

And at 300k population, it cant even handle 1x speed.

grtninja

26w

Adjusting reflections while zoomed into any fountain will show a performance improvement. every city service building with a fountain is reflecting that building and sky. you will also notice frame rate swings just based on what part of the city you are looking at, the more complex the area, the harder the cpu and gpu will have to work. this game is also very cpu dependent. vram hasn't been an issue on my 4060 ti 16 but it will after the game releases more content.

Rene vdK

26w↑1

For those who want to try this beta (can’t convince me otherwise: we’re the beta testers) without paying full price, it’s included in the game pass. Usually costs you $1 or so for 1 month. Don’t forget to end the subscription though.

Merc Gaming

26w

Its definitely making my 4060 work. I know a 4060 isnt the fastest, but it should definitely be doing better than it is. Unfortunate, I am sure they will resolve it though.

Sayori

26w

Thank you for this, as someone who still runs evga 1080 ti ftw3 I'm glad to see it among the lineup. Great card. But ye this is hilarious.

Alex

26w↑1

When I booted this up for the first time yesterday and was immediately greeted by a blazing 4fps in the menu screen on my 3080 I knew people weren't exaggerating about the shockingly bad optimization. I don't even understand how this is possible in a modern engine in 2023

Ansh Balde

26w↑60

One of the first major outlets to give coverage to this mess. Yesterday I tried to search YouTube for benchmarks to confirm about bad user reviews on Steam before making the purchase but to my avail could find no content at all. Finally Steve decided to cover it 😌

Tegan Burgess

25w

Turning on TAA (Anti-Aliasing) @ 1080p or 1440p then chang the settings from there. TAA gets rid of so much shimmering and jagged lines that it looks sharper than it is at lower resolution. DynRes Custom ; using AMD FSR 1.0 80% Adapt Off, these helped a bit. Some weird smearing from moving objets with FSR but its using 1.0 so you get what you get. Thanks for the video!

Jamie + Lion

26w↑1

The game appears to use the HDRP graphics system for Unity which was originally intended for TV & Movie work.

It appears paradox are playing the long game here. It’s a brutally painful launch for performance, but the potential for future visuals is huge.

I’m not sure if that’s the right choice, but it is quite exciting and interesting.

Christ-Jan Wijtmans

26w

Paradox getting paid by nvidia to sell more 4090s more likely.

WolfCoder

26w

releasing to "mixed" is not the right choice. games are played, not watched.

seeibe

26w

ngl I like how the game looks, hope they fix the issues. The main thing for me will be an in depth economy simulation like they promised.

Simone S

25w

I am curious to know how the number of CPU cores affects performance. Is optimization bad also on CPU side?

kurema

26w

Thing like this was totally expectable for the first few month or even around a years of a game like this. No problem, they will fix it eventually or if not some modder will. We've been doing that for I of this game.

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