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Laptop Performance

By CyberVibes

Laptop performance guide to help get the most out of your laptop whilst gaming

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Performance Settings

Make sure all your drivers are up to date from the manufacturers site, this includes chipset, lan, audio and graphic drivers, this is optional but you'll find better performance from using all the latest drivers.

Boost Performance:

Boost Windows performance by disabling or removing uneeded apps, use common sense after watching the video below, if your using the particular apps we recommend disabling then ignore it and move to the next suggestion.
Win 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0L8tGCSxg&vl=en
Win 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGPlYbbE7w

1. Switch power plan to Hgh Performance:
Configure Power Management in Windows
Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog box.
Type in the following text, and then press Enter. powercfg.cpl.
In the Power Options window, under Select a power plan, choose High Performance. ...
Click Save changes or click OK.
2. Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System then choose Performance,
then click Settings,Chose adjust for best performance
3. If your motherboard and ram support XMP switch to that profile
4. Keep all other apps and browsers closed when you play
5. Run the game at a lower resolution
6. Keep assets and mods to an absolute minimum

Intel Graphics:

Win 10: Following Microsoft requirements, the Intel® Graphics Control Panel will no longer be included with the graphics driver. It will now be automatically downloaded and installed once you connect to the Internet.
The Intel Graphics Control Panel can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/intel-graphics-control-panel/9ndlclmmtmrc?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Win 7: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/support/articles/000005596/graphics-drivers.html

1. Update your graphic drivers
2. Set your pagefile
8GB Ram: Set page file to 2500 Initial size (MB) and 24000 Maximum size (MB)
*Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive if you set max to 24GB
16GB Ram: Set page file to 2500 Initial size (MB) and 48000 Maximum size (MB)
*Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive if you set max to 48GB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRe_MtNvVSM
3. Set power to high performance in the Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel
4. Add this to the command line -force-d3d9
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466981085

Nvdia Graphics

1. Update your graphic drivers
2. Set your pagefile
8GB Ram: Set page file to 2500 Initial size (MB) and 24000 Maximum size (MB)
*Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive if you set max to 24GB
16GB Ram: Set page file to 2500 Initial size (MB) and 48000 Maximum size (MB)
*Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive if you set max to 48GB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRe_MtNvVSM
3. Add Cities.exe to high performance mode in your Nvidia control panel by clicking program tab.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3130/~/setting-power-management-mode-from-adaptive-to-maximum-performance
4. Add this to the command line -force-d3d9
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466981085

AMD Graphics

1. Update your graphic drivers
2. Set page file to 2500 Initial size (MB) and 36000 Maximum size (MB) (Make sure you have enough free space on the hard drive if you set max to 36GB)
https://support.lenovo.com/at/en/solutions/migr-67530
3. Add Cities.exe to high performance mode in your AMD control panel
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-017#SGApplication
4. Add this to the command line -force-d3d9
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466981085

9 Comments

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CyberVibes [author] 1 Jul, 2020 @ 3:59pm

@Olejnikov Sure, have sent you a pm requesting System Info from Steam.

Olejnikov 1 Jul, 2020 @ 12:13pm

Hi. Can you help with this game? It just doesn't loading

CyberVibes [author] 11 Jul, 2019 @ 12:35pm

You might also want to check out this video about SSD's and life spans, it's only the very old cheaply made ssd's that will see a reduction, all the recent ssd's have been tested and proven to last the lifetime of all your other pc's components https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XZNr7mS0iw

CyberVibes [author] 11 Jul, 2019 @ 12:35pm

You won't get more than 50fps while zoomed out with a 1080 and that reduces to 20-30 fps when zoomed in but again that depends on how much detailing is done in the area you zoom in to.

Sanki 11 Jul, 2019 @ 12:28pm

well the only issue I have is smooth 30 fps at the moment, barely acceptable because I used to run games at 144 fps but I don't care, game is very satisfying and addicting

Hope the laptop users will be able to play.

CyberVibes [author] 11 Jul, 2019 @ 12:15pm

Sorry to hear your having so many issues, but it seems you have some misconceptions about city builders and having high fps, normal fps on this game is 20-40fps and you can play fine with that.

And while your correct that using a HDD for pagefile instead of having physical ram will slow the game down in some cases, the pagefile is used for loading all the assets at the beginning of the game to stop crashes and is only accessed when a asset that has been offset to it to save physical ram is called to be used in the game. Not everyone is fortunate to be able to spend out on expensive ram and this guide is mean't to help them.

CyberVibes [author] 11 Jul, 2019 @ 12:15pm

Considering the rig you have you shouldn't be having so many issues, my rig is a bit lesser than yours and runs fine in game but then i know how to manage my workshop content as some mods will heavily effect game play and bring it to a snails pace which is worse than using a HDD for pagefile.

If there's no settings in your graphic card software you would just have to ignore that step, but since this is a laptop guide most laptop cards come with software that allows high performance mode.

Sanki 11 Jul, 2019 @ 11:44am

and you can't "1. Switch power plan to Hgh Performance" while Geforce Experience is installed.

Sanki 11 Jul, 2019 @ 11:42am

If my "decent" Rig can't handle this game, well no matter what gpu or cpu, maybe in near future DDR5 memory stick will help because people got about 15-30 fps! simulation/engine just suck when building big city and landscaping it with over 200 mods.
About the guide please add some info about Page file, it will slowdown the game on HDD, it works best on SSD if you do not care about its lifespan, If you got enough RAM like me 32GB you don't need pagefile/virtual memory! "Ram is faster than virtual memory remember that!"

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