Low FPS on pretty high end PC .

[subwoffer13 0]

my specs are : 

 

amd phenom II 8 cores cpu ( 3.20 each ) 

670 GTX overclocked 1280 mb 

16 gb ram ddr 3 , 777 freq . 

1200 w power supply . 

 

and still , when filling the city with structures and buildings , fps goes down to around 25  + - .. 

 

this is really annoying , considering me , as an fps perfectionist .

 

any ideas?

[Anything 8]

is it a tourist city?

 

normally i run near max settings and its very smooth, even for a max-size city.

but i recently made a city that is pushing past 150k tourists, and it has made that city unplayable. probably only 3-4fps. and if i open the tourism layer its less than 1fps showing huge armies of medium wealth people storming my city

seems like the game cant handle massive numbers of tourists too well.

[subwoffer13 0]

yes , yes it is !!! 

 

so ... nothing to do about it , except not to build a tourist city ? :\\\

[Anything 8]

seems that's the case.

i thought... finally! tourism is a viable option. i was making 50k+ hourly profit.... but alas, back to huge smog tech or metal cities.

 

i havent tried high wealth only tho. need to save up 10+ mil to rebuild i think.

[tophertuttle 0]

It makes me wonder if the tourist numbers are 'fudged' or not like the main population number. I remember reading somewhere that the simulation could support ~100,000 agents. Maybe things scale poorly as more tourist agents come into the city than glassbox can handle (regardless of your computer)? 

I suppose maybe focusing on high wealth tourists and keeping away low wealth ones might be a temporary fix.

[Anything 8]

I know the cities population of agents are fudged, and only a few thousand are simulated.

But I don't know about the tourists. When I view the tourist map the streets near my casinos are swamped with so many tourists that its a blur. There could be +100k actual simulated tourist agents in my city.

I had assumed that it was slow because the sims were simulated on just a single cpu core (a bad design / etc), but my system doesn't report any high cpu or gpu usages. Must be some bottleneck somewhere in glassbox.

 

[Screwballl 196]

I have several cities 150K+ population and only saw slowdown once on my side (due to other programs running in the background) and this is with a system a few years old.

Intel Core2 E6600 (dual core @ 2.4GHz)

4GB DDR2-800

1GB nvidia GTX550Ti

SSD

Win7 64bit

 

I have cities with plenty of specialization, I have tourist cities and gambling cities and educational cities with lots of schooling.... haven't found any specific one causes any slowdowns here.