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Do you want to learn the best settings for Cities Skylines 2 for your low-end PC? You can refer to this page and check what you need to tweak in the new city-builder for it to work smoothly on your PC.
Cities Skylines 2 is finally out in the wild and its player base is by now spending hours building and managing their megacities. While these players are busy building, some are still having second thoughts if their PCs can handle the city-builder sequel.
Best settings for Cities Skylines 2 for low-end PCs
Here are some of the options that you need to check out for the game to run decently on your PC. The information below also details how these options are set up in the game.
Anti-aliasing – This option affects the game’s image quality. Most low-end PC users should set their Anti-aliasing Method to “TAA”.
Shadow Quality – This can also be set to “Low” since you want the optimum FPS as much as possible in these settings.
Next, the following options need to be set to “Disabled:”
- Ambient Occlusion Quality
- Clouds Quality
- Depth of Field Quality
- Fog Quality
- Global Illumination Quality
- Motion Blur
- Reflections Quality
- Dynamic Resolution
Following that, you can play around with the next set of options. Find the setting that works best for you, but we suggest that you start with Low for all of them:
- Animation Quality
- Skinning Quality
- Texture Quality
- Water Quality
- Terrain Quality
- Level of Detail
- Deep Simulation: Make choices that have ripple effects across the city. Intricate AI and economic systems mean players will need to strategize, problem solve and react to changes, challenges and opportunities.
- Epic Scale, Endless Possibilities: Build a thriving metropolis without compromise. In Cities: Skylines II, players will be able to build sky-high and across the map to realize their dream city like never before.
- Cities That Come Alive: Follow the lives of individual citizens, from love and loss to wealth and well-being. Player decisions will shape the lives of their city’s citizens.
- A Dynamic World: Pick a map to set the climate and biome of the city. These natural forces will shape the growth of players’ cities as they contend with rising pollution, changeable weather and seasonal challenges.
- English (Playback Language)
Minimum PC requirements to play Cities Skylines 2
Now that you already know which options to tweak, it’s also worth noting the minimum requirements for your PC to play Cities Skylines 2. Even with that, the game’s optimization issues could prove your rig to be lacking.
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 480 (8 GB)
- Storage: 60 GB available space
If your build has met the above-mentioned system requisites (or higher), then you have a good chance of being able to run the game.
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