Cities Skylines 2 | AMD Ryzen 5 5600U (Vega 7) | HD 720p

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Published on October 26, 2023 12:37:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxWvEU1hye4

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Cities: Skylines II (2023)

Duration: 26:16

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Cities Skylines 2 just arrived!!! It is supposed to be bigger and better than Cities Skylines.
Let's see if a laptop with integrated graphics can run this game.

Released in 2023 for PC, PS5 and Xbox series X and S.

The game has very high system requirements and the longer we play the more resources it will use.
The good thing is now Cities Skylines 2 can use multiple CPU cores to optimize simulation performance, one of the biggest problems in Cities Skylines 1.
The bad thing is the game has performance issues from launch, but we are familiar with this because many games today are playable after a few patches that fix what should be fixed from the beginning.
There are settings you have to use to be able to run it otherwise even RTX 4090 has massive frame drops.

- Graphics preset: High
- Volumetrics quality settings: Disabled
- Ray Steps: 16
- Depth of Field Quality: Disabled
- Motion Blur: Disabled
- Level of detail: Low
- Max light count: 8192 (Advanced settings)
- Dynamic resolution scale quality: Constant
- Upsampling filter: AMD FSR 1.0 (Advanced)
- Minimum resolution percentage scale: 70%

I played it on a laptop powered by AMD Ryzen 5 5600U with integrated Vega 7 graphics.
The game runs in 720p resolution with 26 fps on average. Of course, there are lags and sudden fps drops but at this stage, I am not sure if that is because of the laptop itself or because of the game being not optimized yet. Well, time will tell.
Like any city builder game, it will put more pressure on hardware the more we will play and the bigger the city will be. Luckily this is a CPU-demanding game so I hope 6 cores will handle it for a long time.
The game looks precisely the same on my laptop as on my PC (bear in mind resolution, my PC run on 1080p). After optimization and patches if this hardware can hold steady at 30 fps it will be a great success.
Simulation is slower than on my PC.

The laptop has 32 GB of DDR4 RAM in dual-channel which helps a lot with performance.

The game runs using FSR 1.0, which is not great, yes it helps but at the same time sacrifices graphics details.
With the introduction of FSR 2.00 or 3.00 and DLSS game will run much better, and smoother and it will look great.

The audio had no issues at all during the whole gameplay.

Chapters:
00:00 - intro
00:06 - settings (HIGH)
01:26 - gameplay
23:02 - settings (LOW)
23:35 - gameplay
26:08 - outro

Laptop HP Probook 635 Aero G8
- CPU; AMD Ryzen 5 5600U (6 cores / 12 threads)
- GPU: AMD Vega 7 (integrated)
- RAM: 32 GB DDR4 (dual-channel)
- SSD: 250 GB
- VIDEO RECORDING: AverMedia 2 Plus

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