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I posted earlier in this thread with crashing issues. Over the weekend, I bought 4 GB of RAM to add to the 4 GB my laptop already had. It made a big difference, operation smoother, faster, no more crashes so far. Memory cost me less than $40 and took me 10 min to install. I recommend anybody with 4 GB who wants to play this game to buy more memory.

I played C.S. for about 30 min this evening, and it didn't crash until just after I had saved it and gotten out of it. Have an extra screen connected to laptop and was able to read Task Manager as I played. The Radeon graphics seemed to be working ok automtically. My 4GB of RAM was actually making available only 3.5 GB for applications. With Cities Skylines running, the memory usage was averaging 80% plus, which is pretty close to the limit, and this is with a town that is still small in size and population. I suspect upgrading to 8 GB will reduce the number of crashes and make the program run smoother and allow larger cities. I don't think this program will run very well in the long run on a 4 GB machine.

My laptop has a Radeon GPU that has a product number well above the minimum specified to run Cities Skylines I never realized that there was setting buried in Windows that would override the "default" integrated graphics processor. Since I don't run many games on my laptop, that has never been an issue for me. Besides checking my memory usage, I will follow the advice in the form thread above as well as what I have found elsewhere, in order to see if I can change the graphic settings and improve the performance. I will post here what what my results are.

I bought the game yesterday and downloaded it. I have a Toshiba laptop computer (2013 vintage) that appears to meet the minimum hardware requirements to run the game, but it is far from optimal for games that push the hardware. The game ran for awhile, but a bit slow. After about 45 minutes to an hour, it crashed. I lost much of the work I had done. Also, while using it, the movement with my mouse was a bit sluggish. I actually like the game itself, especially as I slowly master navigation on the map with the use of my mouse and movement keys. I will see about changing some of the settings to reduce some of load off of the graphics. When I play again, I will save often this time, in case I get another crash. Also, I am hoping that there are some software patches that come out that make the game run a bit smoother on my hardware. Finally, I realize I am stuck with the built-in graphics card that is part of the laptop. However, the laptop has 4 GB of RAM, but is upgradable to 8 GB of RAM. Would increasing the RAM help with improving program performance as much as an improved graphics card?

I think the Sim City rollout is such a fiasco, that the only way to salvage it is to retool the software and rerelease it as a stand-alone game with Microsoft style one time only activation. The other online stuff could stay optional. I have hesitated to buy this product, and instead gotten my old copies of SC4 and Rush Hour out of mothballs to play instead. Sim City 2013 may be the best that could have happened to keep SC4 alive and thriving. The idea of forcing a multiplayer scheme on a single-player game like Sim City is absurd.