Colossal Order, the developer of Cities Skylines 2, has initiated its post-launch performance improvement plan with the release of a new patch.
Cities Skylines 2 made a big splash on Steam this week, garnering over 100,000 concurrent players and claiming the top spot on the best-sellers chart. However, performance issues plagued the launch, resulting in a ‘mixed’ user review rating of 53% on Valve’s platform.
Colossal Order had previously acknowledged that performance would be an issue for Cities Skylines 2, and they aimed for a steady 30 frames per second, even on high-end PCs, as they believed there was no real advantage in a city builder to strive for higher fps.
Patch 1.0.11f1 is the first of many patches designed to improve performance in Cities Skylines 2, according to Colossal Order. The developer explained in a Steam post that while this patch doesn’t address all known issues, they wanted to provide these improvements as quickly as possible.
Here are the full patch notes for Cities Skylines 2 update 1.0.11f1:
- Changed LOD to be independent of rendering resolution to achieve more consistent performance with high resolutions
- Minor optimization with fog
- Depth of field optimizations and tweaks
- Global illumination tweaks
- Optimized stutters when buildings spawn/level up
- Optimized various stutters across all systems
- Fixed crash after upgrading wind turbine
- Fixed crash when car crashes into still hidden car with trailer
- Fixed crash with mesh loading (that happens with low settings mostly)
Colossal Order stated that their team is diligently working on the next round of fixes and improvements. They expressed gratitude for the players’ patience.
For those experiencing low FPS in Cities Skylines 2, Colossal Order has provided the following recommendations:
- Reduce screen resolution to 1080p
- Disable Depth of Field and Volumetrics
- Reduce Global Illumination
Furthermore, the developer has published a comprehensive guide to improve performance in Cities Skylines 2.
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