SIMCITY 5 - PC LAG ISSUE
Hi team I have noticed a significant lag issue when playing Simcity 5 over the last couple of weeks, so much so, that it is virtually real time, and thus unbearable. My internet connection is 3.44M...
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Lag has recently been attributed to an excess of tourism in a city. Try opening a new city as a test. If it's the same, then you may have a hardware issue.
How can it be hardware when it worked fine a few weeks ago? That's what I keep seeing, hardware, hardware hardware. But no one can tell me why it worked fine just 2 or 3 weeks ago. I've also seen people with computers more powerful than mine with the same problem. Suggests it isn't hardware but no one knows the answer.
@AzaraDaguerre wrote:How can it be hardware when it worked fine a few weeks ago?
My point exactly. Let's say there are 2 know possibilities for lag. Tourism and GPU performance. ( the OP has a good network connectiion)
Since the tourism and GPU info weren't provided by the OP, we have to take a logical approach. If you start a new city, you eliminate tourism as a factor. You have to take up Gambling or add a Tourism module to City Hall to trigger the issue. That takes a while. Days, weeks.. ??
If it runs fine without those, then there's a good chance that Tourism is the issue, otherwise it's the GPU.
Just saying. IF..THEN..ELSE.You guys forgot probably the most common issue. Underperforming computer. This issue happens in a beginning city and slows down over time as more power is required to keep the burgeoning city processing.
If the OP goes to the options menu and graphics settings and set everything to low/min/off
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 for std monitor. 1280 x 720 for wide screen.
Lighting: Minimum
Textures: Low
Shadows: Off
Geometry: Low
Animation Detail: Low
Anti-Aliasing: [Unchecked]
Framerate Cap: Off
V-Sync: [unchecked]
This should remove all lag
If you can post what your computer's name and model number are, we can help you much better instead of guessing.? i.e. Dell Inpiron 518
MaxisBazajayteeEA Staff
It is unlikely to be hardware unless your PC has started having other troubles.
As dddibley mentions, there is an issue we are aware of where you have an excess of tourists or shoppers in your city and they won't leave your city which causes the game to run slowly. This is one of the issues being addressed in Update 6.0.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9543476.page
- Fix performance slowdown in cities with more than one million tourists.
This issue still hasn't been resolved. Quite shocking that after nearly 10 years of your post and Ea acknowledging the problem it's still not fixed!
I have a 4090ti Gpu and 1gb Download Internet. I spent over 5k on my pc and it couldn't handle the lag/fps drops
I played in other cities with 200-300k population and its fine. Soon as I go into my tourist city with the casinos and great work of Space activated my frames drop harder then the housing market back in 07/08.
P.s I tried to play in this tourist city on my 3080 gpu computer and my 3070 laptop all incur the same issue.
issiue still happening over 10 years now
Goos evening
This issue is still happening when I have a stadium up it gets real laggy 1 frame a second/ frozen
with a new block of land in the same region no issue.
I had more people on the city with no issues and now I have 100,000 less people and it's laggy something to note I had a meteorite shower (3rd one for the city ) but this one left plot of radiation. Could this little pocket of radiation be laggying it as well? Please fix I know game is 10 years old and no financial gain but it's unplayable
- @MaxisBazajaytee Issiue still happening.
When I remove the stadium it's not as bad but it gets to a point it's 1 FPS/ frozen.
Keep in mind I had meteorite shower (3rd time for the city ) this one left a radiation zone could this radiation pocket make it laggy ?
I know you there is no financial gain as the game is 10 years.old but this Issiue makes it unplayable please fix
