Cities: Skylines 2 promises a handful of notable improvements in terms of both the tools we have at our disposal to build cities and overall visual fidelity. The sequel boasts some fairly impressive graphics, which naturally leads to questions regarding its system requirements and the PC specs we’ll need to run it.
Cities: Skylines 2’s system requirements have, predictably, seen a fairly significant bump from its predecessor. To some extent, this was to be expected since it does allow us to place more detailed buildings across sprawling expanses. Rendering growing cities is bound to prove more taxing for our PC specs.
Cities: Skylines 2 System Requirements
In practice, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD equivalent are listed as the recommended GPUs for the sequel, alongside a 12th generation Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPUs.
Although its minimum requirements do suggest that older hardware will be able to run the game, you might have to turn settings down to low.
If you plan on squeezing every last bit of detail out of your cities, it might be time to at least consider an upgrade.
Here are Cities: Skylines II’s system requirements, as detailed on the title’s Steam page:
Cities: Skylines 2 Minimum System Requirements
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4 GB) | AMD equivalent
- Sound Card: TBC
Cities: Skylines 2 Recommended System Requirements
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit | Windows® 11
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-12600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 7 5800X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ RTX 3080 (10 GB) | AMD equivalent
- Sound Card: TBC
There’s quite a bit of ground to cover between the PC specs listed above. It is also possible that tinkering with the graphical settings might get the title running acceptably on a variety of different hardware, but it’s hard to be certain before release.
Nevertheless, these are Cities: Skylines II’s system requirements and the PC specs we’ll need to run it.
For more on the game, check out whether or not it might become part of the Game Pass and Nvidia GeForce Now libraries at launch.
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