I'm a Cities Skylines 2 player and had a city with nearly 200,000 residents, using 30+ mods, and my prebuilt PC was handling it pretty well with T Force Delta 2x8GB RAM sticks. However, it started crashing recently, and every autosave from that day crashes about a minute in, even when I'm not doing anything. My task manager shows the game using about 80-90% of my CPU and memory.
I decided to upgrade my RAM to Crucial Pro 2x16GB, thinking it would help with performance and allow the game to run larger cities more smoothly. Oddly enough, the old game saves are still crashing, and even starting a brand new game with zero population consumes about 50% of my memory.
I'm confused about how this is possible. I expected the RAM upgrade to enhance performance and reduce strain on my PC. If I managed to run a city with 200k residents before, shouldn't the new RAM do better? Why is Cities Skylines 2 still using so much memory?
3 Answers
Have you thought about bumping your pagefile size to 16GB? That might help. Personally, I would’ve gone for 2x32GB sticks instead. Just a thought!
Did you just add the Crucial sticks to your existing RAM or did you replace the old ones completely? Mixing RAM is sometimes less effective.
It sounds like the crashes might be more related to your CPU rather than just running out of memory. Sometimes, the game can be more taxing on the CPU than on RAM, especially with large cities.
That's interesting! I noticed my GPU was hitting the 90s in utilization even on a new game with 0 population. I wonder what it was like when my city was fully populated.
Could you explain what pagefile is? I’m not super familiar with that.