1,000,000 Population City Challenge - Cities Skylines 2

[@ImKibitz]

I do not recommend attempting this, RIP PC parts. www.patreon.com/imkibitz

[@williamminecraft2468shorts]

Nice vid kibitz

[@Tricerarex]

do you have a top of the line pc?

[@ImKibitz]

@@Tricerarex Top of the line, 2 PC setup yep!

[@SpaceAce33]

Hi @@ImKibitz, I hope your pc recovered from this. What are your specs? I'm thinking about doing this too as a project build. I wanted to compare mine to yours to see what i could expect and not end up at the morgue with my pc hahah

[@I_am_cheeseman]

What about on PS5?😂

[@HeroinYoda]

Demolishing an elementary school to build a highway is the true American dream.

[@magnusrylander]

Yeah elementary schools are government propaganda machines anyway

[@komplettegal]

Well, it could have been a black neighborhood, American traffic engineers really LOVE destroying them for a 30 lane highway

[@magnusrylander]

@@komplettegal wow really? Those neighborhoods that are crime ridden and garbage ridden should be demolished and replaced by a functional road system that benefits thousands of people? What a terrible idea! The ignorance from you is crazy

[@komplettegal]

@@magnusrylander got a racist here folks

[@magnusrylander]

@@komplettegal why is what I said racist when I don't even mention race? You find what you look for I guess.

[@pascaldewit]

Bro is building a normal City in China

[@neliz2194]

Monstertube fan hier

[@Bubitalk]

@@neliz2194what

[@pom8130]

@@BubitalkMonstertube fan hier 😢

[@Bubitalk]

@@pom8130 tf is monstertube fan hier

[@therealusman]

small city*

[@joshuafranks3156]

My favorite thing to do in order to insure I have a comfy playthrough on CS2, is to give everyone free water/electricity. They lose their minds from how happy they become lol.

[@sahiljha7970]

bro discovered a government votebank

[@tilen3266]

For some reson I staught you were talikng about Counter Strike 2 lmao. got confused then remmembered what video im watching

[@kripticlunar8198]

comfy until it turns into a traffic manager game

[@SM-dt3xo]

​@@kripticlunar8198 build free public transportation. less cars 😂

[@jonathanr7928]

@@tilen3266sometimes i just want to give my Russland random team mates water and electricity on faceit as well, when seeing them Play brainless and with turned Off monitor…

[@Kyle-xt1yz]

Cities Skylines 2! Build anything you can dream of… except for that.. and that..

[@kripticlunar8198]

cities skylines 2! the new traffic manager game!!

[@xiZark]

It's actually insane how much they messed up this game. It seemed like it would be such an easy slam dunk but I guess I forgot to take into account company greed when thinking that.

[@leozbuckshank]

I love the game and play it everyday. 3070 ti, i7 (2022 not sure what model). I usually start lagging really bad around 110k people, which is a bit of a bummer but otherwise the game is super playable! Granted you have a $2,000 pc is that is 😂

[@too_s0ber910]

Bro, it's 2024. Developer and/or Publisher greed is an industry staple at this point and standard practice!

[@RisingEagle94]

Toxic

[@dumbdragon2129]

​@too_s0ber910 you aren't seeing the big picture, they can sell an optimisation dlc which will make them more money

[@sloganreadet1151]

@@dumbdragon2129Don’t be too pessimistic. CO has always made bug fixes and optimization free.

[@punkyroo]

Yet another massive CS:2 bug. Shocking.

[@cuchibambo.p]

Why did I think CS:2 was Counter-Strike 2

[@ultradeady]

@@cuchibambo.pi never saught anyone writing CS : 2 for cities skylines and only saw it for counter strike 2

[@ryderadams8575]

@@cuchibambo.p You're not alone lol

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

The existence of Cites Skylines 2 is such a major Counter Strike 2 bug, the devs should really work on fixing it :P

[@toothless1622]

Thought you meant counter strike at first

[@NyZandry]

USA: TRIPELING THE AMOUNT OF LANES LETS GOOO Europe: no-no, we're gonna have public transit

[@Cluelessgamer-ju7fv]

so true

[@DuplexWeevil337]

Europeans looking at US citys: so uncivilised

[@copter2000]

90% of urban planners stop one lane before fixing traffic congestion.

[@VengefulAzana]

Just one more lane, and all traffic problems will be fixed!

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

ONE! MORE! LANE!!!!!

[@hydronpowers9014]

This bro sacrificing his sanity and computer to bring us entertainment. 😂

[@GLA741]

😂facts

[@Baleur]

My game collapses at 60k pop and this guy is running with 1mil pop. Same pc can run star citizen at 60fps btw, kek

[@Nova-ge4lp]

I wouldn't exactly say it's running

[@Riyoshi000]

@@Nova-ge4lpyeah more like crawling through the desert after 2 days no water 😂

[@mahdiaz9802]

This game is so cpu base, maybe your cpu is weak

[@Manni4]

Ive got 150k people in my city and pretty much no problems. My PC isnt that good which is why im always surprised when watching these cs2-bad-performance videos

[@csebal]

Running it is an overstatement though. the game is barely scraping along, with everything turned down and him focusing on the empty part of the map to lighten the load.

[@Siebs221b]

I feel like this is a visual representation of how the city of Toronto was assembled

[@Llamalex007]

true

[@cooltwittertag]

Toronto is so sprawling

[@xwedel]

Yup, dystopian wasteland 😂

[@user-ie6jr4bg1w]

Yea terribly 😂

[@creedencebakken2686]

With the CN tower and traffic in this video, yeah definitely Toronto 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bradboxrud7233]

The 8h crash setback must have been DEVASTATING! props to you for sticking through it

[@stekarenhd6911]

1 million is just an average smallish city, and in this game it looks like New York x5....

[@samp.8099]

It's because in the game one high-rise skyscraper holds only 150 people

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Depends on the country, some countries dont have any cities with a million people.

[@dracomadness792]

It’s also because in a real city, it’s a lot more sprawled out. They typically en company a much larger foot print

[@jakubadnan7225]

Bro the capital of Poland has 1.5m it is not a small city.

[@AtomicSub]

1M is not a smallish city, my city of roughly 100,000 has the largest area in the country.

[@mahmudcanton6800]

I’m honestly amazed at how you managed to power through the initial crash at 8:02 after losing your save game. Love your content!

[@Pyromane_v1.0]

Hey GPS Which Road is my exit? GPS :" You're F**d"😂😂

[@ultradeady]

*In 200 meters, take the first right*

[@akiraekman4493]

​@@ultradeadyyou mean left because this guy made left exits for some reason lol

[@ultradeady]

@@akiraekman4493 wait what?

[@ultradeady]

@@akiraekman4493 a yes, half bri’ish roads

[@akiraekman4493]

@@ultradeady true lol

[@dimitrisgaranatsis]

Before Cities Skylines 2 was released i thought with technologie advancing you could easily build a city with a few million citizens. Especially because they said that there was no cap on citizens and it was only what your computer could handle...

[@Kasserole1]

My pc can handle 0 citizens 🫠🫠🫠. What a waste of 50$

[@alex7yd82n]

@@Kasserole1 i downloaded it on steam unlocked to check my performance and at 100 people my game was already struggling at mínimum grafics

[@3komma141592653]

The fact that that initial cluster with maybe a hundred sky scrappers is only housing 15 000 people, that is a small local town. Such a turn off for me.

[@the_bottomfragger]

​@@3komma141592653 Same. Apparently it's so they can simulate every person living in it but I don't really care about that. Feels so weird to see a huge cluster of massive skyscrapers and be told that this is where 16000 people live.

[@mamuf]

@@3komma141592653 It was mostly empty, nowhere near the limit of these buildings. I mean the high density still does not accommodate 100 % realistic population but it's waaay better than CS1.

[@Presidentti_El_Cabio]

Its fr crazy how game is about building city. But still it doesn’t have realistic population and has so small map… like cmon! You want us to build abandoned small town? Instead of massive populated capital

[@frank_calvert]

its like that because every person is simulated, having a realistic amount of people would ruin most peoples computers

[@kiwiz_77]

i like to think the population number is a repersentasion like when he was at 20,000 it looked more like 200,000

[@_marsMan_]

Fr my 30 story apartment complexes have like 30 people living in them

[@Ireneo-gs4mq]

That's the reason I completely quit Cities Skylines 1 and this doesn't interest me. I want a 200x200km city region and build a mega-city of 50 million inhabitants... or more, I want to build an automatic mega-port like Shanghai moving millions of tons, that I have to build billions of dollars infrastructure, both within my region and to connect me to other cities/regions (like in SimCity 4), high speed trains, mega stations for cargo and passenger trains, big highways and bridges, etc. But instead they want to simulate the life of Peter and John, as if that's what's interesting about building a city.

[@Ireneo-gs4mq]

@@frank_calvert That was never necessary to make a good game. In SimCity 4 you can make cities with more than 1 million inhabitants and it's a game that can barely use only one CPU. And that's without taking into account the regions, there are people who made regions with more than 100 million inhabitants in SC4. Instead of simulating the life of each inhabitant could do more abstraction or simplification and that the game is able to simulate a mega city.

[@ErikBuilds_official]

That one dude called "Not just bikes" always said, one more lane won't fix the traffic. Yep, that's why we need TWO more lanes

[@MasterNinja7348]

Have u thought about maybe not two, but THREE more lanes?

[@robconstant797]

90% of traffic engineers give up adding lanes just before fixing traffic.

[@certaindeath7776]

you can laugh, but in cities skylines 1 with some mods, a city with low/no cars would run way smoother, because less agents on the road.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

so 10% ​give up after? :D@@robconstant797

[@noobiumbaconate]

Engineers always quit one more lane before fixing traffic forever

[@armanada7600]

16:01 POV american infrastructure engineers when there is too much traffic; I have a NO BRAINER ANSWER:

[@MrWhiteVzla]

Advisor: "Mr Mayor, there is a traffic problem. I recomend we build public transit." Mayor: "MORE CAR LANES!!"

[@VGACGAEGA]

add another lane 50 lanes iz no enough

[@LobsterFingers]

16:20 “Let’s cut a highway to here, yeah that looks good. Elementary school? Goodbye”

[@carolederent7638]

@@MrWhiteVzlaHighway is a prerogative of the state government not the city smooth 🧠

[@MrWhiteVzla]

@@carolederent7638 some people know they are stupid. And then some people are just smart enough not to realise they are stupid. You are part of the latter based on your attempt to sound smart in a comment about a video game.

[@Son_of_Mandalore]

Great to see you back on City Skylines, love these vids. Thanks dude.

[@tylere1987]

Great video, I heard of a 500,000 population city in Cities Skylines 2, but not a million. Very nice. Hopefully as time goes on, our computers can handle high population cities.

[@ChristiaanHW]

I was able to get to a little over 400k citizens. But by that time the simulation slowed down so much that everything goes so slow, it wasn't (really) playable anymore.

[@donroxitheoverthinker]

ITS NOT NICE..THIS SHOULD WORK SMOOTHLY ..NOT THAN U CAN BARELY HAVE 200K POPULATION AT 4K SETTINGS.. omg U SHEEP PEOPLE ARE KILLING GAMING

[@wippermannl3-mi9up]

​@@ChristiaanHWhere to. Gets buggy at 420.000 now I try one without public transport cause that goes glitching first

[@3komma141592653]

Honestly, the starting block with all those sky scrappers and it has 15000 people there, that is like 5 people per sky scraper. Really turn off that they messed this up so hard. Aside from the game crashed on top of it. Won't ever buy this game.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Hopefully, as time goes on, Paradox will learn to write code better so that you dont need to buy a 10K nasa pc just to play simcity 2000 in 2024

[@MrStoffzor]

8:02 Oh the pain, how do you still manage to sound pumped? I'm in awe

[@TisKirran]

Kibitz really destroyed his PC's lifespan for us 😭🙏

[@ThundeROman-MariusMaximus]

Aaaahhh yes!! The: "you can't park here" joke.. classic 🤣🤣

[@RoyalReeds]

That first crash had me dying 😂😂😂

[@aftertaster]

“What do you need?” “Stop whining.” Literally me every single time I play without fail.

[@bruh666]

Honestly this style feels exactly like the megalomaniac style of "city" building by middle-eastern dictators lately lmao like they would def hire you

[@andtrees3192]

i have been playing with the water physics for a while and the best advice i have is: the water sources will continue to emanate from the ground and fill whatever dam or crater you put them in. However i do know a way to mitigate the rise. Step 1. pause simulation Step 2. raise the ground level above the flowing water and water source (it’s best to have flattened land to locate the source) Step 3. play the simulation for no more than 10 seconds and then pause again to find the geyser Step 4. raise the ground with a small radius just to submerge the puddle that has formed Step 5. with the biggest size brush, lower the ground all the way surrounding where the puddle originates from. this will cause the puddle to very slowly fill the crater which you have made however with the game paused you can repeat this process to make the extra water disappear by submerging it in land and recreating the crater

[@Skid6660]

Kibz: "My apocalyptic slide show has begun and these roads are *perfect*"

[@JokaGaming2K10]

The human dumpsters 💀

[@rotator8833]

come to dhaka then.

[@tripslord9029]

I love modern game optimization and how people still put up with it (*helldivers 2*)

[@nevernottrash4974]

I have a 4080 and good cpu but I can’t get Helldivers to run correctly

[@tripslord9029]

@@nevernottrash4974 bro fuck helldivers to be honest

[@plaguex5z011]

​@@nevernottrash4974 I have a 4060 and can run Helldivers 2 on ultra 1440 x 2560 with about 80fps. I would first check your cpu usage to see if that is what is bottlenecking you, just to rule out hardware limitations (unless you are trying to run the game in 4k, with upscaling on max, the gpu will not be the problem). Also you should probably know the model of your cpu, as a "good" cpu doesn't necessarily mean a powerful one.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@plaguex5z011 80fps is literally unplayable for a shooter game

[@noobiumbaconate]

@@TheSuperappelflap sounds like a skill issue

[@izanamisim6071]

That computer may never know why you hate it so much lol.

[@thepopeofpineapples6275]

You should play timberborn again! So much stuff has been added.

[@ThisIsNeccessary]

Seconded!

[@_d0ser]

>implies SF is overpopulated >uses large highways Yup, definitely American.

[@kaseymarvel730]

This man just built Houston, Texas.

[@DougDeBone]

Just a big block, I wish someone make this experience actually trying to get the city a little more beautiful, with hills, organic roads and green areas, but Kibitz carisma makes up for it, great vid

[@thatguy6482]

That minimalist block on the lowest settings took over a week and almost killed a relatively high spec PC.

[@computernerdtechman]

While watching this video, I kept getting the feeling that watching the video was going to crash MY COMPUTER. 🤣

[@Arbol-kx5oc]

Roundabouts are good at handling smaller amounts of traffic, but they are not made for large interchanges between several main roads and highways. If you really want to have these roundabout you can do one thing: some bypasses so that not everybody needs to go through the roundabout and block everything. Another option might be a timed traffic light or, what I would prefer, build a proper Highway interchange for the highway entries (Cloverleaf-Interchange or Turbo Interchanges. Also you don’t need that many lanes for a highway, because otherwise it would rather confuse the traffic al and mess everything up. More lanes are not always a solution for heavy traffic. These five lanes are in the game, because you can use them before a split into two highways. This extension makes it easier for the cars to get on the right lane before the diverge and also prevents traffic jams caused by the lane changing. In your case I would replace those roundabout with traffic lights. Two of these five highway lanes will go straight ahead to the next jiunction, where you can merge another two lanes, to the highway. 2+2=4. a few hundreds of meters (before the next junction) you can add the fifth lane. And again. The 3 remaining lanes are leading to the junction. There are so many lanes, because they are acting as a buffer. The more lanes, the bigger the buffering effect on those junctions. A good amount of lanes are four. Two for going right and two for turning left. There is a lot of lane mathematics and boring stuff I mentioned, but this knowledge might be very helpful for other grand projects. If you ever have similar traffic problems you can try to implement my Advice and if it doesn’t work you may ask Biffa.😉 He is really good at fixing traffic issues.

[@Infinity-i2r1h]

Public transport just bugs out at around 410000 passengers as seen due to some things. Was the same in cs 1 too

[@TyphonCH]

I love the random challenge videos like this. Always brings out the best editing

[@Illuminati_HD]

You should try it in the City Skylines 1. I bet it would work well better

[@mrgooglethegreat]

U forgot the Node Limit tho in CS1 ....it's impossible

[@tobbakken2911]

The game dosen't simulate more then like 65k people, after that it's all fake

[@fakefe]

​@@mrgooglethegreatikr? I'm not trying to say that this game is well optimised or anything but all the people in the comments acting like cs2 base game is way worse than cs1 base game even though this challenge is literally impossible in the original

[@kripticlunar8198]

@@fakefeit’s not😂 just use all tiles unlocked mod

[@Davids_2222]

I got abt 820,000 in CS1 with a realisitic apartment/home population mod, so population in high rises would be much higher than vanilla, after that i couldnt expand anymore

[@thatcringyplaneguy]

"it'll be fine. now it's not necessarily pretty or perfect but it'll get the job done until this is system explodes and then we have to design something else" truer words have never been said

[@zaroes]

4 minutes in and as an urbanist this is hurting me. Why are your roads so wideeee.

[@LetsTakeWalk]

My PC is just slogging at 200k people.

[@drewbarrymoresdealer]

5:30 the downside is it only collects garbage from industrial sites.

[@Jcava5]

I don’t get why they couldn’t make population sizes normal in the sequel of this game. A city of one million people is really not that big that it should be exploding computers in a realistic city simulator.

[@krunk145]

Elementary school? Goodbyes children LMAAOOOOOO

[@Brahlam]

Hey Kibitz, nice to see you try CS 2 again. :-) Also something you should give a shot is Oddsparks, Factorio meets Pikmin! Super fun!

[@bdenizb01_quorox]

You're so inspired me. Thank u really much!

[@Myles-o3o]

"good bye children highway time" 🤣 you never fail to make me laugh

[@vincer7824]

Gotta say 8 mins in and you rebounded from that first crash like a champ.

[@nicknevco215]

Kibitz got so much dedication for us Crash after crash

[@miguelagu8236]

great video, but one question, how do you rotate the intersections?

[@daedricnightshade220]

I like how CS 2 has an upgrade system to buildings, reminds me of the Jurrasic World game

[@sincerelyuel]

The random noise complaints in the end were probably from the jet engine sound your computer was making. -sincerely Uel

[@monkeebear09]

1:26 Alright bro, you can give us this same picture by taking a picture of Texas highways

[@BuildingSwede]

Haha thats insane! Great video man

[@oufukubinta]

That first block you built it with skyscrapers felt like a fully realized map in Sim City

[@Saethauoe141-WTM]

7:53 bro handle that very well🤣

[@arturslunga4226]

Me: *complains about noise* ImKibitz: *demolishes my house*

[@NoahIsthebest-rk6kq]

ive been waiting for so long for a new CS2 video

[@nilsp9426]

Ah yes, a good old car-based hellscape with the parking lots cheated away.

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

15:30 kibs just finding any reason to make a slum xD

[@LuisMan123]

holy shit a new CS2 vid

[@RANDAMULOL]

Literally every city in the world:

[@NotMathew0]

this is weird because an american man is wondering why the traffic is bad when they have 500 four way interchanges like no. thats BANNED.

[@Warchunder_]

What are your computer specs? Also awesome video

[@cg21]

Did you provide the safe file to colossal so they can work on getting the performance up?

[@Cyiel568]

Just my two cents but in reality more lanes actually make traffic worse. It's a well known phenomenon named induced demand.

[@unrenownedc]

WE NEED 100 LANE HIGHWAYS 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅🔫🔫🔫

[@Alfa-739pcg]

How do you keep to have infinite demand? Do you use a mod? If you do please let me know!

[@Snowwie88]

It took me 80 episodes to create a city that had just over 500,000 population, but then without the demand mod, (called "Oakdale" and can be found on my channel) but the game speed is really killing it. Imagine I was running the game with 128GB of ram, an RTX 3090Ti and a Ryzen 9 7900x 12 core processor baking at 5,5Ghz........It's insane. From what I understand the slowness is caused by pathfinding. The more and longer pathfinding you create the slower it gets. So it would help if you could squeeze as many population in a very small space, with just limited outside connections. But, that's a theory I did not tested yet.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

demand mod barely helps, as the immigration system in this game is more complex than in the first game

[@tiantongsun]

The frame rate of Cities Skyline 2 has been improved, with a population of 500,000. How many frames can your PC configuration （rtx3090Ti and 7900x ) run now?

[@Ryan-vv5vw]

I love how it looks like Manhattan with all these high rises and it's only like 80k people.

[@hyper-active8133]

Careful with wind direction for powerplant. Builds nuclear?

[@Leooooooo156]

What PC do you have (Parts)?

[@D192706Play]

Imagine this game added in a feature where you can build your city than play in first person almost like gta

[@Political-rat879]

Hey man i know im a bit late but when you build those super advanced things you could just make a oval roundabout thats in the air that has a ramp going down to every road.

[@LetsCars]

Cities Skylines 2 isnt working on XBox One right? Will it work on that console in the future? Thanks for answers...

[@champy5095]

Incredibly i managed to reach around 450k population without any vast amount of high-density building, in an even smaller city, mainly using building upgrades to compact as many people as possible into a City.

[@arnandegans]

I tried building cities like this in CS:1, had a whole grid worked out and everything. But my laptop always pooped its pants at around 250k people 😞

[@mike5390]

"more lanes is always better" This comment sponsored by General Motors Corp

[@TheGabolifal]

What do you use to have infinity money and everyting unlocked, please? Love that gameshark vibe.

[@Gizmo_Nugget3397]

Have you revisited this city again after all the updates and mods lol. would be interesting to see how it runs now.

[@ScP-049-01]

Brother, everything is possible, this is just really close to impossible.

[@Kasserole1]

Mind if I steal this quote, cause this is really good.

[@creepackk9269]

16:20 -Let's cut a highway here -Elementary school? -goodbye😊

[@_dc_works_]

This guy is basically the same as the city of Atlanta when it comes to traffic. Just leave it, I’ll come back

[@Sharky_On_The_Road]

I was working on C.S. 1 for 2 years had a pop of 450,000 in only 9 tiles, no mods. Then game glitched. and all the garbage trucks wouldn`t work. City died. Un-able to get C.S. 2 in the game store. Is it not available to buy for X-box yet? Can`t even pre-order or have the option to.

[@lordwizard2879]

as of 12/21/2024. you've had 160% the viewers of your population goal in game

[@joe_frees]

Kibs totally has this in the bag. Kib’s PC totally does NOT have this in the bag.

[@mr.mattdesrochers5408]

I know the sim-speed is in the toilet, but how do you get your fps to stay so good? (at least for the first 400k pop) I'd rather 30-40 fps and lower sim speed than choppiness and decent sim speed.

[@JD_Mortal]

I have tried to give them several simulation tips, but they either refuse or are unable to get any of them in the game. The biggest one being the use of PhysX code, which is 1000% faster than CPU coded "collision", and the AMD version of that same GPU power. Since the major simulation killer is "people walking and colliding". They fail to grasp that PhysX collision is not just for water and gravity, but also for general object collision detection too. Using dedicated hardware to give accurate results, thousands of times faster. Realize this... With 1 million people, that is only 333,333 people that need to be simulated, every other frame. The game is literally choking on 30,000 people per second.

[@JAtlas-RS]

17:47 How American engineers explain not needing public transport

[@DavidRGD]

San Francisco, if they could have consolidated Marin County. Wait, he's trying to make the San Francisco Bay Area.

[@dr.paulwilliam7447]

@ImKibitz what was the peak RAM usage of the game? Obviously the CPU was at 100%.

[@erikworthen1164]

All you need to do to fix traffic is to add one more lane

[@Fortress_37]

“Oh my gyash” -Kibitz, 24:40

[@Eattherich2025]

😂 dude you’re so funny KZbinr real civil engineer would be so bothered by these grids lack of roundabouts and lack of curvy roads 😹

[@alastoria_va]

His computer survives THIS while mine overheats while playing The Sims 4...

[@jaranth]

Thanks Kibitz for sacrificing your computer in the name of science!

[@NEETASPIRANT-ho3jh]

What If his home Power supply suddenly cuts before saving it💀