12th August 2021 - Specs
reviewed
Minimum Requirements
- OS: Windows XP 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR3 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
- VRAM: 512MB
- RAM: 4 GB
- HDD: 4 GB
- DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card
Recommended Requirements
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470T 2.8GHz / AMD FX-6300
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- VRAM: 2GB
- RAM: 6 GB
- HDD: 4 GB
- DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card
FPS System Benchmark
162
FPS
High
Graphics Card
How well optimised is Cities: Skylines for PC?
6.2
6.2
Where does Cities: Skylines rank in the list of the most demanding games?
Cities: Skylines System Requirements
Minimum
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Recommended
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Processor | ||
Graphics Card | ||
VRAM |
512MB
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2GB
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RAM |
4 GB
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6 GB
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OS |
Windows XP 64-bit
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Windows 7 64-bit
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DirectX |
9
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11
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HDD Space |
4 GB
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4 GB
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Cities: Skylines PC Release Date:
10 Mar 2015
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Cities skylines system requirements don't make sense. They should be:
Minimum
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
CPU: Intel core i5-3470
RAM: 8GB
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 1GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850
HDD/SSD Space: 8GB
Additional notes: Minimum spec for 1080p 24fps low, 720p 60fps low
Recommended:
OS: Windows 10/11 64 bit
CPU: Intel core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1500
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650/1060 or AMD Radeon RX 5500
HDD/SSD Space: 12GB
Additional notes: Recommended spec for 1080p or 1440p 60+fps with all DLCs and at least a few mods on high settings
4K Recommended:
OS: Windows 10/11 64 bit
CPU: Intel core i7 9700K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
RAM: 32GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
HDD/SSD Space: 12GB
Additional notes: Recommended spec for 4K 60fps with mods and all DLCs at high settings
That would be a better system requirements as the current ones just don't make sense.
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Before asking for 60fps:
Once your city gets big, it becomes impossible to get 60fps, even on high end CPUs: single thead limitation. ( at least as of july 2022, not even the Core i9-12900K can reach 60fps). And yes, you will want to use mods like traffic manager, and it will make your fps go even lower. So get ready to deal with sub 30fps when playing this game.
On a good news however you don't need to go beyond 100k of population to get all the achivements of the game.
And on another good news, this time for low end users, the game is playable on 15fps (i'd say even 8fps is playable).
I play this game for a looooong time so I'll put the performance here of EVERY machine that I've played so you can compare.
I'll give below the performance on some setups and mods, I used traffic manager on all of them:
I hope that this shows:
The game is playable even on old/low end machines
As of July 2022 no computer can keep 60fps on ultra.
The better the CPU the better the Minimum fps specially with traffic manager in a big city
The better the GPU the better the Maximum FPS
More Ram means more unique assets
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Can I Run?
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At 60fps definitely no.
But the game is perfectly playable even at around 15fps,
You may face the simulation speed getting slow when you reach around 80k of population. Specially if you use mods like Traffic Manager.
you may also be able to use some few mods but if you intend on using mods 16Gb of ram is heavily recomended.
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Can I run ?
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Can I run it?
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Can I run ?
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I used to play this game with a i3 3220 and intel HD 2500 6Gb RAM.
This game IS playable even at 15fps.
Use the Dynamic Resolution mod to get a little better fps.
DON'T install other mods. You have way too little RAM.
Simulation speeds will start to get below 1x beyond 80k population.
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The game needs more than 4GB RAM to run properly. 6GB in Recommended Requirements don't make any sense.
Recommended Requirements should be :
1) Core I5 4590/FX 8350
2) 8GB RAM
3) GTX 760 2GB/R9 270
Minimum Requirements :
1) Core I3 3220/FX 4100
2) 6GB RAM
3) GTX 650 1GB/R7 250 GDDR5
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Can I run ?
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I think the recomended CPU should be higher, my i5 3470 was causing FPS drops.
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yeah even people with kaby lake i7s get lag
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I can play with a Intel HD Graphics 4200 Mobile so It shouldn't be hard for others.
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hi, what's your FPS?
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Can I run on low or ultra low?Processor can be overclocked to 2800mhz or 3000mhz so can it run?With few mods of course and dlc's.
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you just said mods. so no. Even with few. Cities Skylines becomes REALLY heavy even if you only have a few, but essential mods, like Traffic manager.
4 Gb of RAM is REALLY LOW to play this game modded, even with 3 mod
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Can I run ?
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https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-r5-330-oem.c2727
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-5670.c248
Yes cause your card is more powerful.
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Can I run ?
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Can I run on MacBook Pro 9.2 13-inch mid 2012?
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your GPU doesnt cut it, you'll be able run the game but it wouldn't load up the gameplay so no..
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I highly disagree, as I have +3000 hours in the game...
with just a i3 3220 3.3 Ghz (almost the same power)
6 GB of RAM
and intel HD 2500 (a bit worse than a HD 4000M)
don't use mods tho.
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I voted no because... it won't stay at 60fps it will get worse the more you build
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WIth about 20 mods and 600 assets