All kinds of issues with Cities Skylines

[gsb216200]

HP Laptop
Windows 7
I7
Nvidia 650m GT 2gb
8gb ram

I have now gotten the game to work with unchecking enable steam overlay and -force-d3d9 and setting nvidia to high preformace, everything is up to date. But the game loads extremely slowly it takes 30min-2hr to load a city and its so slow. I have mods but they never affected the performance of the game. I have uninstalled and deleted old folders/mods and reinstalled the game still no luck. When I check steam overlay and remove -force-d3d9 the game starts up to a black screen and does nothing, if I only have -force-d3d9 i get the Cites.exe has stopped working or Virtual Alloc remapping failed if it gets this far. I'm frustrated this worked great I don't know what caused this at all , I think its cause i have a i7 intel 4600HD and Nvidia GT650M it and Direct X 11 error it wont work, GTA 5 works great.

 

[barrygreybeard]

My Asus laptop is not dissimilar to yours, mines an
i7 4700HQ
GT750M
windows 10.

Cities loads from Steam in 35secs max and a game of 30k in around one minute from the load menu screen. I had a similar experience when I played the game under Windows 8.1 So your loading times show there is a real problem somewhere. Naturally you have all drivers up to date, it couldn't be related to the settings in the Nvidia control panel? And you're of course 100% sure its not using the intel HD graphics

 

[gsb216200]

I have switched it to high performance nvidia only, I dont know whats causing this its crazy! That how long it used to take to load!

 

[gsb216200]

I also notice that in task manager its take 92% ram of my 8GB to run cities skylines???? I have it set to use nvidia not the intel chip

 

[AndrewT]

DXDIAG is a program you run from a command prompt or the Windows start menu 'run' dialog box (or 'search programs' in Windows 7). After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach this log file:
...\Steam\steamapps\common\Cities_Skylines\Cities_Data\output_log.txt

 

[gsb216200]

I do have a lot of mods but the game was working perfectly with them and stopped working late July. I noticed under DXDIAG Display it says intel 4000 instead of my Nvidia Chip set even though I set steam and cities to run from my GT650M

 

[AndrewT]

That's the problem alright:

Version: Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.0]
Renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (ID=0x166)
Vendor: Intel
VRAM: 128 MB

You say you've forced cities.exe and steam.exe to run on the nVidia, in the nVidia Control Panel? That really should work.

Make sure your nVidia driver is up to date, here
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

 

[gsb216200]

It now shows Nvdia 650GT but it makes no difference so i have uninstalled and im reinstalling

 

[gsb216200]

How can I unsubscribe from all mods on Steam all at once so I can reinstall them the game works better now that I reinstalled it but none of the mods show up

 

[gsb216200]

Disregard my last statement the game works but it does not recognize any mod i subscribe to