I mean don't fucking pre-order, dont fucking buy games as soon as they release...

It was well known as by release date that its not going to run smoothly, even with the absolute top personal hardware.

It's too bad. I'm hoping the devs don't give up on it and get it fixed because other than the horrific performance issues, the potential is there for it to be a worthy follow-up to the first game. Though the modding situation also doesn't help things...

I just can't buy it in its current state. I'll stick to modded C:S1 in the meantime.

Held off on buying it, although I have an itch, the weekly promo videos really made me want to play it. It's so sad, that it's in this state, this game deserves better. I want it to be good. I guess the only positive thing is that they gave a warning before hand, although they should have postponed it...

Severe performance issue on day one is most likely a bug, some incompatibility, or debug code accidentally left in.

I don’t know why people interpret it as if the game will never be playable and behave as if it was some master plan to make 4090 look slow.

I feel like a game like this would really benefit from the discounted 2-3 yr early access model. They get to squash bugs and get data and those who can stomach the performance issues will enjoy playing what they can. BG3, minecraft, KSP1, The Forest. All had it with our really well for them.

I mean, this is just KSP2 all over again. Successful first game with diehard fans and then just try to drop some unoptimized garbage down when people have been modding and optimizing the first one for a decade.

It's not running great but also not terrible on my rig (3070ti, 12700K, everything on high). I've heard that the FPS in the menu is somehow worse than in game.

Gonna stick with my unfinished CS1 city for now since I am playing highly modded and aiming for a beautyfull city rather than actually playing the game..

I've been playing on the Gamepass version (which was gifted to me by a friend). It's not spectacular performance on my 8th gen i7 and 6700K...but it's playable. I'm enjoying myself. I'm averaging around 25fps in game. Only setting I really modified is the Volumetric setting...set that to low. Playing at 1440p.

I'm probably going to get it. It sounds like if your willing to change graphical settings it will work okay

very odd, my friend says he has no issues (10700K - 2070Ti - 32Gb RAM - on SSD). Though he does have it on the MS store, wonder if there's a difference in performance.