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Hopefully everyone is using Loading Screen Mod as well. Using this mod (I keep it enabled to periodically check my assets, especially vehicles), I was able to locate several key assets that I've downloaded before that were taking a toll on my game. It's very useful for finding problematic assets that you might have downloaded that seem harmless, but actually are (in Cities Skylines terms) really 'heavy' and cause the game to take long to load and run slow when it finally does. One important mod that I may consider (among many others, granted) is Mesh Info. The only building on Eglin/Cheyenne with completed landscaping and parking is the McDonalds since that's where I work. The hills in the background were made by hand, the Springhill Suites on the left should be a Fairfield Marriott, the IHOP on the left should be a Perkins, the Comfort Inn on the right should be a Comfort Suites, the police building on the right was supposed to be replaced with an invisible station since there isn't actually one there, and the Cheesecake Factory on the right is a placeholder for Dakotah Steakhouse. In the background, some things are hidden by the camera angle because they aren't actually finished. The stoplights in the middle of the interchange (the real life location) are non-functional props, with the actual stoplights at the sides of the intersection, and the intersection itself is resized with Node Controller and marked with Intersection Marking Tool, leaving the curbs as the only inaccuracy since the ramps don't have sidewalks. BIG Suburban asymmetrical roads don't have a bridge mesh, so I custom-built the bridge using Metro Overhaul monorail supports and quays hiding the ground clipping around the highway below. The interchange itself uses Another American Highways for the Interstate mainline and ramps, and BIG Suburban Roads for the crossroad. The image might seem a little dark I'm still working on good image lighting.

Here's a picture I took a few months ago of one of the few areas I have somewhat finished: Exit 61 off of I-90, looking south from the interchange.

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I added the full road layout with Cimtographer, but couldn't add the terrain in without my game crashing (Cimtographer) or completely misaligning the terrain (ingame heightmap tool, same coordinates as the road layout). Has anyone here tried to do a rebuild of a real life city? I'm currently working on Rapid City and Box Elder, SD (with the western cutoff at 32nd Street so I could fit I-90 exit 67 and the airport into the map). Man, I wish I found this thread a year ago when I bought the game. The DLCs have created a city-simulator with greater levels of detail in this regard (just look through the city policies menu these days), but you can still largely ignore many of these additions if you choose. There is a big portion of players who either (A) don't use mods, and (B) like to micro-manage a bit more than what even a mod could do. To be fair to developers, most of the DLCs have been things people have asked for. Similarly, you can build zoos and theme parks now, but again, I choose not to because I find those things rather boring. Just managing those alone can be quite the task. The only thing I do build are warehouses, and all the trash, power, water, and heating facilities. I do not choose to micro-manage my industry and choose regular industry zoning for my port areas (as an example). The new DLCs have added a lot of functionality where there was previously little control, but you can largely overlook these. As I zoom out past certain LOD limits, the game speeds up too. The more zoomed in I am, the higher the FPS. Without mods, my game hits the maximum FPS manageable by my screen (120Hz) but, with mods AND a big city (with mods and small city, it's still pretty damn fast), it slows way down to around 45 FPS maximum when looking just at suburban areas, to around 3-10 when looking at built-up areas like CBDs. I have an i7-8086k clocked at 4GHz normally, up to 5 as necessary. A regular computer, even with a good graphics card, will not run the game super well.

These games are very demanding, especially if you have mods like TM:PE or Realistic Population that micro-manage each person.

In my experience, the game is tough to run because most processors aren't clocked fast enough to manage a city simulator.

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