has set up a lot of villains for its sequel. While it may be exciting to see what Insomniac Games has in store for some of Marvel's most iconic villains, there is some concern that the studio may not be able to do justice to each character's arc, especially as it has spoken out about not wanting to do overly long games when discussing 's length. This seems to be a common complaint surrounding some of Sony's movies, with both 2007's and 2014's criticized for juggling multiple villains without giving a satisfactory amount of screen time to each villain's arc.
A tech analysis of Cities: Skylines 2 proves it's rendering WAY too many polygons, making Cyberpunk 2077 look like Minecraft in comparison
07.11.2023 - 10:49 / pcgamer.com / Many / Minecraft
A technical analysis of the graphics rendering in Cities: Skylines 2 has identified the reason why the performance is just so poor. Put simply, the game is trying to draw the cityscapes using a shocking number of polygons, with few systems in place to reduce the amount when it's not needed. It's not something that should be happening in a modern game but the recent breakdown also suggests changes within Unity are partly to blame, too.
Before the game even came out, developer Colossal Order issued a warning to potential customers that the performance of Cities: Skylines 2 had «not achieved the benchmark we targeted.»
And when the city management sequel finally appeared, it turned out the dev wasn't kidding and the only way to get any semblance of a decent frame rate was to whack most of the graphics settings down to low or completely off. The first patch for the game helped matters a bit but the fact remains that, as a simulation-management game, it really shouldn't be as GPU-dependent as it is.
I learned the full answer to that puzzle over the weekend, via a short Reddit post. It contains two things: A link to a technical analysis of the game, involving a spot of decompiling and rendering software tools, and an excellent discussion of the findings. The breakdown was carried out by software developer Paavo Huhtala, who explored the game's inner workings with a fine toothcomb.
It's a long and dense read, especially if you don't know much about rendering, but the primary issue is that the cityscapes are being drawn using way too many polygons. And I mean by multiple orders of magnitude too many. How do 25,000 vertices (corners of a triangle) sound for a simple clothesline model?
If you need a point of reference, take the clothing models used in Cyberpunk 2077. Some of them use an enormous number of polygons and I've seen one with as many as 29,500. But that's triangles and these will share corners, as they're 'stitched' together. The actual number of vertices for that jacket could be as low as 8,000.
There's so much going on in the Cities: Skylines 2 engine is making nearly 7,000 draw calls and over 50,000 API calls (requests made by the game, via DirectX) in a single frame. Now those figures by themselves, and set in no context don't mean very much, but they're both enormous in general and indicative of the game asking far too much of the GPU.
For example, taking a random scene in Cyberpunk 2077's cityscape shows fewer than 10,000 API calls are required to render the frame. Now, one can't directly compare these two games as they are so very different, and city-sim games are likely to be making more calls than any shooter, as the world changes so much and fills up with lots of interacting models. But
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Cities: Skylines 2's editor tools are still a couple of months away
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