What are your specs?
Eagerly awaiting first impressions from Dopers.
I got my key from GMG but I won’t be able to play until Kin Jr is in bed, so 8’ish tonight.
First reviews are in though:
PC Gamer (86): Cities: Skylines review | PC Gamer
Game Informer (8.75): http://www.gameinformer.com/games/cities_skylines/b/pc/archive/2015/03/10/cities-skylines-game-informer-review.aspx
IGN (8.5): Cities: Skylines Review - IGN
For reference Sim City (2013) is sitting at a 64 Metacritic avg.
Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series.
Oh you’re fine. Everyone is reporting that this game is more CPU bound than graphics bound. You may not be able to set everything to high (depending on what version of the 7800 family card you have), but the game should run fine.
Basically if you’ve got a 4 hardware thread CPU + almost any discreet GPU you’re good.
Awesome.
Although I’m going to tell my wife that it’s horrid and won’t work. Maybe I can convince her to let me get a new video card.
Good luck with that. Last time I tried that I got the evil eye plus a reminder of how much diapers cost.
More excellent reviews!
The escapist (5/5): http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/editorials/reviews/13603-Cities-Skylines-Review-Modern-City-Building-Made-Easy.2
Game Watcher (8.5): Cities: Skylines PC Review | GameWatcher
Rock Paper Shotgun (no score - “you’re going to love it”): Cities Skylines reviews | Rock Paper Shotgun
I’m assuming I need to place my order on the machine I plan to play on? Or is there a way to move it from one machine to another?
It’s on Steam, so you can play it on any machine you want once you install the Steam client.
Word is Steam will push it live at 2:00 Eastern.
I heard 1 eastern.
Please pardon my ignorance, but I’m not certain what that means. I have a PC downstairs with Steam installed. It has a 24" monitor. I have a Toshiba notebook also with steam installed. Am I correct in thinking, based on your post, that if I use my downstairs PC to purchase that I can also play it on my notebook?
That’s exactly correct. Not on both machines at once, mind you, but so long as you only use one at a time, you could have Steam (and its games) installed on a hundred different machines.
OK, thanks for the help. So it seems that most of the game is not on my machine then.
Well, each game needs to be downloaded separatedly (you can also set up one computer as a sort of server for the other ones, but of course that requires them to be networked).
I have a single steam account and have merrily carried games across half a dozen computers. Right now, several are installed simultaneously in a laptop and a desktop. If they are games that require the player to be online, they can only be played on one computer at a time; those which don’t have the online requirement can be played simultaneously in as many computers as have that particular steam account associated and that particular game downloaded.
No, Steam will install the game - indeed, any Steam game - on as many computers as you install and login to Steam on. It’ll also upload your savegames to a Cloud to be available wherever you are.
Steam really is rather good.
Not only that but thanks to in-home streaming you can even play your game son very underpowered laptops or even PC tablets by having a more powerful desktop stream the game to your device.
I’m guessing someone forgot to account for DST.
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