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Start a new city today using these settings. You will be amazed at how well the game runs when you remove the visual bloat and let the simulation breathe. Happy building
Set to Low or Disabled . Shadows are the biggest performance killer in the game.
Always run the game in Fullscreen (not Windowed or Borderless Windowed). This ensures your graphics card dedicates its full resources to the game. 2. Visual Effects (Turn These Off First) cities skylines settings for low end pc better
Disabled. The lighting transitions during the night cycle require extra computing power. Keeping the game locked to daytime stabilizes your framerate.
Software configurations outside of the game can free up vital system resources for the simulation engine. Start a new city today using these settings
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. This is one of the most taxing settings and often causes significant frame drops. Shadow Quality: . Shadows are extremely GPU-heavy in this game. Level of Detail (LOD): Shadows are the biggest performance killer in the game
Windows itself needed an assist. Maya closed background apps—music streaming, cloud sync, and a dozen browser tabs. She set the power plan to High Performance so the CPU wouldn’t sit in power-saving mode during busy simulation ticks. In Device Manager she made sure drivers were up to date; sometimes a patched driver smoothed a stutter overnight.
15-25 FPS up to 20,000 population, drops below 15 after that. Playable for careful city building.
Whether you are experiencing or long loading screen crashes