For those who haven’t performed Cities Skylines 2 because it launched in October 2023, the sport performs very in a different way now, fortunately for the higher. Efficiency of the sport on PC continued to battle for a while, however the newest patch goes a protracted method to fixing this drawback, whereas additionally squashing numerous different annoying bugs.
Cities Skylines 2 now has help for Nvidia DLSS 2, and when you received’t want among the finest graphics playing cards to make use of it, you will have to be utilizing any RTX graphics card to profit.
The inclusion of Nvidia DLSS help would have gone a protracted method to bettering efficiency in Cities Skylines 2 on PC if it was accessible at launch. Nevertheless, this time it’s a case of higher late than by no means for the Tremendous Decision tech, because it can considerably improve your body fee for those who’re utilizing an Nvidia graphics card.
DLSS isn’t the one noteworthy change on this new patch, although, as two different large modifications have been made. The primary is a repair for pathfinding, which now reduces the slowdown throughout simulation. The opposite change is vaguely listed as “optimizations to scale back body spikes.”
Both manner, the result’s a way more steady sport in observe. In my expertise, it now runs smoother, and is much less irritating as an entire, no less than from a efficiency perspective. For extra on the gameplay modifications, you’ll be able to learn by the full set of patch notes which have been launched on the Paradox boards.
When Cities Skylines 2 first launched, we additionally confronted issues with excessive temperature points when making an attempt to play the sport on the Steam Deck. Nevertheless, after additional testing following the discharge of this patch, the thermals at the moment are way more steady than earlier than.
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