Building Types

[BlitzPackage 19]

Greetings.

I picked up the game again recently after a few months of not playing it.  So, I downloaded it to my Surface Book.  Now, I noticed that the building types all look European.  They don't look like they used to look in the original game.  Offices and high density commercial look like apartments homes.

Is there a way to get it back to the way it used to look or get a more American feel to the cities?

Thanks

 

 

 

[BlitzPackage 19]

Ok.  I figured it out.  I was on a map that had European as the style.  No problem as I will restart my city on another map.

[bigmigal 0]

How does it run on the surface book? Does it lag if your city gets big?

[BlitzPackage 19]

On ‎12‎/‎19‎/‎2015 at 4:40 PM, bigmigal said:

How does it run on the surface book? Does it lag if your city gets big?

So, I have 6 tiles and just over 50,000 citizens.  Extensive roads, buildings, etc...  I have the 16GB, discreet GPU, with 512GB of hard drive space.  Thus far it is runny pretty good with no lag or very little.

What I do, before I play, is restart my machine and make sure nothing is unnecessary that is running in the background.

Hope this helps.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

 

[bigmigal 0]

T

On 12/22/2015 at 1:58 PM, BlitzPackage said:

So, I have 6 tiles and just over 50,000 citizens.  Extensive roads, buildings, etc...  I have the 16GB, discreet GPU, with 512GB of hard drive space.  Thus far it is runny pretty good with no lag or very little.

What I do, before I play, is restart my machine and make sure nothing is unnecessary that is running in the background.

Hope this helps.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

 

Thanks for the update.  I have been debating on purchasing the same exact model you have but am worried if the gpu/cpu can handle the game.  This is the most demanding game I play on the PC so as long as this game is playable I am happy:)  I wonder how it will handle a city with a lot of content from the Steam workshop and/or the 25 tile mod or even 81 tile mod.

  Edited December 28, 2015 by bigmigal  

[Judazzz 1,936]

3 hours ago, bigmigal said:

T

Thanks for the update.  I have been debating on purchasing the same exact model you have but am worried if the gpu/cpu can handle the game.  This is the most demanding game I play on the PC so as long as this game is playable I am happy:)  I wonder how it will handle a city with a lot of content from the Steam workshop and/or the 25 tile mod or even 81 tile mod.

It's not quite the same, but my - slightly ageing - gaming-grade laptop (Quad Core i7 CPU, GTX760M GPU, 16GB RAM and SSD ) is getting into trouble around 75.000 inhabitants. Probably doesn't help that I have about 900 custom assets installed (as well as the 25-tile mod and a few dozen others), but it should give you somewhat of an indication of how the game fares on mobile hardware faster than what a Surface has to offer.

Keeping the amount of custom content to a minimum will probably really help keeping the game run smoothly, but imo. you simply need all them sweet goodies from the Workshop to get the most out of the game, both feature-/graphics-wise as for the much needed building variety.

It's a diabolical dilemma (to put it mildly dramatic ), but I choose to go all-in, and by now (117.500 inhabitants) the fps is eye-wateringly low - fortunately the game is still perfectly playable at low fps (it's not really a game that requires lightning-fast reflexes or zero lag), although I noticed that the game at times has trouble registering mouse clicks, which can be a bit of a nuisance at times (for example when it doesn't register a click that should have close the bulldozer tool, even though I thought it did - I think you can imagine the consequences *facepalm*)

[ethansprang 41]

I've got an AMD FX 6300 six-core machine.  It had 16GB and a GT740.  Above 40K cims it slows; but 80K the 3x speed is the same as the 1x speed.  I'm usually at 15-12 fps.

My current city is just at 200K.  For the holidays I got another 16GB and SSD.  Overkill probably.  But I've got 1700 assets and 50+ mods, and it still starts faster.  And it saves without a pause!  But I'm still at 7 fps and nearly 20s for a game-day.  If I upgrade a road or add an intersection, all the nearby traffic will freeze for quite a while.  Every so often the hearses and garbage trucks get confused and dance in place for a bit.  And I'd better pause if I want to move a bus-stop or it's really not happy.

But it keeps on chugging.

[Ltw 401]

On 28-12-2015 at 8:29 PM, ethansprang said:

I've got an AMD FX 6300 six-core machine.  It had 16GB and a GT740.  Above 40K cims it slows; but 80K the 3x speed is the same as the 1x speed.  I'm usually at 15-12 fps.

My current city is just at 200K.  For the holidays I got another 16GB and SSD.  Overkill probably.  But I've got 1700 assets and 50+ mods, and it still starts faster.  And it saves without a pause!  But I'm still at 7 fps and nearly 20s for a game-day.  If I upgrade a road or add an intersection, all the nearby traffic will freeze for quite a while.  Every so often the hearses and garbage trucks get confused and dance in place for a bit.  And I'd better pause if I want to move a bus-stop or it's really not happy.

But it keeps on chugging.

Maybe upgrade your graphics card? That seems to be the only thing holding you back I guess. 1700 assets and 50+ mods might be torture for your computer as well haha.

I am running Skylines on a Intel i5 3.10Ghz with 8GB DDR3 (2400Mhz) and an AMD Radeon R9 280X and it is running fluently (around 30fps). I have 3 PCIe slots in my motherboard so I could even buy another Radeon R9 and crossfire them if I'm not satisfied at a certain moment. Would be a little bit overkill though. However, AMD isn't very good in developing proper drivers, this could lead to an unstable game sometimes. Thus nVidea might be better (I haven't heard any complaints about that, haven't had an nVidea-card though).

I haven't been able to get Skylines running on my laptop though. Even though my laptop is quite good the graphics card is very crappy. It has intel graphics (which doesn't work anyways) and the AMD-card that is in there isn't a lot better than intel graphics. A lot of laptops lack in good graphics cards (which makes sense because most graphics cards are more powerful than a laptop). Therefore I would really recommend playing Skylines on a computer.