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CS2 Spring Cleaning Update: Is It Actually Good? | Patch 1.5.7f1

CodiakTheKodiak

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Welcome back, city builders! In today's video, we are diving into all the details of the Spring Cleaning - Patch 1.5.7f1 for Cities: Skylines 2. We take a deep dive into the brand-new in-game benchmark tool and test it against my own rig. We also cover massive updates to Paradox Mods, including the removal of the "Beta" label and the introduction of mod playset sharing!

What's your favorite change/addition? Let me know down in the comments! 👇

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🔗 LINKS FROM THE VIDEO

Submit Your City B-Roll: https://forms.gle/ZA73dpCpxsmyQhzN7
Hall of Fame Mod: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/90...
Full Patch 1.5.7f1 Notes: https://pdxint.at/SpringCleaningPatch...
Paradox Mods Changes Breakdown: PDX Mods Adds the Feature We Have All Been...
Iceflake City Corners Video Breakdown: Iceflake Is Cleaning Up The Bugs! 🧼 Cities...
Skyve Mod Manager: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/75...
Compatibility Spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/4dcrBd6
My PC: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KNGskD

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INTRO CREATORS

‪@PoplarPonderosa‬
‪@chaosfun87‬
‪@UrbanOddyssey‬

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MUSIC

By: https://cityplannerplays.com/pages/ma...
or CS2 Radios

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:47 Patch Notes
00:03:44 New Features
00:03:59 Benchmark
00:04:54 Running the Benchmark
00:06:47 Benchmark Results
00:13:58 New Features
00:14:39 Gameplay Changes
00:18:23 UI Changes
00:23:15 Visual Changes
00:24:49 Misc Changes and Fixes
00:26:22 Bridges and Ports DLC Fixes
00:26:54 Paradox Mods Updates (Including Playset Sharing)
00:30:12 Known Issues
00:31:14 Outro

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#CitiesSkylines2 #CS2 #CS2Update #ParadoxMods #CityBuilder

20 Comments

@CodiakTheKodiak Creator 5 months ago Pinned

Just going to pin a comment here with some updated benchmarks! I didn't disclose my gfx settings in game were set quite high with a custom set given to me by @candianmooseplays. These settings were for VISUALS not PERFORMANCE. A reminder that my GPU, RTX 3080, is considered the recommended card for the game and is becoming a Mid-Range card. I have also not had the best time with it in general at 1440p in newer titles. With that said here's some comparisons with my rig at different settings. You might notice that DLSS does not grant much in terms of gains and acts as a hinderance at lower settings.

⭐ FEATURED IN VIDEO (Custom Settings 1440p) ⭐
• OBS Closed: 24 FPS Avg
• OBS Recording: 21 FPS Avg
• OBS w/ Stream Assets: 16 FPS Avg

🚫 NO OBS BENCHMARKS (1080p) 🚫
• Very Low (No DLSS): 132 FPS Avg (Loses GPU bind; becomes CPU dependent)
• Very Low (DLSS Ultra Perf): 121 FPS Avg (Yes, it looked terrible lol)
• Very Low (DLSS Max Quality): 109 FPS Avg
• Low (No DLSS): 85 FPS Avg
• Low (DLSS Max Quality): 71 FPS Avg
• Medium (No DLSS): 44 FPS Avg
• Medium (DLSS Max Quality): 45 FPS Avg
• High (No DLSS): 33 FPS Avg
• High (DLSS Max Quality): 36 FPS Avg

🚫 NO OBS BENCHMARKS (1440p) 🚫
• Medium (No DLSS): 37 FPS Avg
• Medium (DLSS Max Quality): 43 FPS Avg
• High (No DLSS): 29 FPS Avg
• High (DLSS Max Quality): 32 FPS Avg

@chaosfun87 5 months ago

Thanks so much for adding my footage ❤

@ForeverTributesNL 5 months ago

Got back to CS2 after I abandonded it a year ago because of random ctd's. Good to see things are progressing.

@SEANBAR77 5 months ago

Great breakdown!!!

@UrbanOddyssey 5 months ago

Great to see my city in your intro 🤩 thank you very much for this 🙏

@PoplarPonderosa 5 months ago

Happy to provide the footage. ❤ Thanks for sharing.

@rattlers87 5 months ago (edited)

Once we get entertainment and sporting events and parades then ill fully switch to 2 , im excited to build these neighborhoods i grew up in

@ThorinTheLukan 5 months ago

22:20 CJK character refers typically to non-letter alphabet fonts, particularly for Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Thai. They particularly allow compatibility for these languages in mixed language interfaces or multi-language computers, or enable a computer to be able to read those characters correctly in the first place to a Unicode standard.

@0belixRed 5 months ago (edited)

Hey Codiak! Nice walkthrough the patch notes.
One thing though: although the playset sharing is new as a vanilla option, you mentioned that you had been waiting for a long time for it, but Skyve (i'm sure you use it...) already allowed that for at least more than a year, if not from the very begining. You just need to enter the playsets list, choose the playset that you wanna share and open it, and on the right side, you'll find a 'Share this playset' and a 'Export Playset' buttons... ;)
BTW, great of you to mention the HoF mod... it really needs love!! ;)

@timweihrauch4381 5 months ago

I cannot believe I wasn't subscribed yet. I must've totally overlooked that. Anyway, I'm on board now. Thanks for the content.

@boki1693 5 months ago

Cool idea adding other peeps cities!!!

@Bus_Stop_Graffiti 5 months ago

Enjoyed the historical check reappearing! But I think seeing more bug fixes that make services/features/etc. actually work is what's makin' me happiest; the less I have to play pretend about what is "happening" in a city-savegame the better.
The things I want added on the other hand would take too long to list in a YouTube comment 😆
Narrowing it down I have a few suggestions I've posted on the PDX C:SL2 suggestion forum that are ~vaguely~ in this update's QOL theme for sure.

Things like:

▪Having stacked networks be able to share pillars, even when not built over a ground level road as well. Networks below the highest one using floating crossbar 'pillars', etc.

▪Being able to apply surfaces to roads (roadway surface or footpaths/sidewalks) the same way you can apply different trees to the street-trees unmodded (not just creating a surface in the shape of it, actually applying that texture to the actual mesh). Picture applying a brick paving surface to a roadway or footpath/sidewalk with one click.

▪Having a persistent menu-list of outside connection cities you can browse with control over which one you want to connect to when creating outside connections (based on what side of the map edge you're creating in on). Opens up the opportunity for these cities being given unique profiles of the goods they produce and purchase, as well as how many tourists they can supply.

@deltak5457 5 months ago (edited)

About the benchmark: It's not really something to be used internally. Internally they certainly use more professional tools coming with the Unity package for benchmarking (which are not consumer friendly).

Such benchmark tools that aim to the random player are to gather telemetry on all kinds of different systems around (so different hardware/software combinations) as you cannot simulate them all within a laboratoryish situation (even if you run hundreds of VMs on a beefy server the real hardware will sometimes act different from what you can simulate, e.g. the voltage issues on 13th and 14th gen Intel CPUs would not have been able to be simulated using a VM).

So if someone uses the tool to report performance issues: don't forget to mention your general system information. At best even add a DxDiag text file that contains also driver and OS version information.

@_RandomPea 5 months ago

Just loading it now 🙂

@-AYes- 5 months ago

I’m really looking forward to the patch where they make water a 3D object. Because right now it’s just a stretched flat texture.

@EcardEcardian 5 months ago

I say it is welcomed fixes to the game. The best one so far is the school one. Now I just wonder if they can fix the cars from doing 90 degree turns. That can mess up traffic, sometimes the drivers just do it, in the middle of the road.

@Exh4le1337 5 months ago

so nobody is going to write about the crashes after loading a save?

@b4mdk_ 5 months ago (edited)

My benchmark score is 52 fps average with Intel ultra 7 265k, 32 GB RAM and a 5070 ti. Very nice. I play at 1440p.

@benhoffman8264 5 months ago

A decent patch but nothing that makes me more excited to play. It's really surprising how many bugs they fix especially after all the bug fixes over the last 2 years. Was literally anything in the simulation working at launch?? Lol