I wonder if it might work if someone went into the Steam library folder direct and launched the app from there? Might 'trigger' the Rosetta 2 translation?
It could be RAM running out, or it could be CPU throttling as it reaches its thermal limit.
The game started jumping which I guess indicates Rosetta but then nothing more happened. I guess we can see more people trying in the coming hours but Steam have all sorts of processes going on when you start a game so I guess things can fail.
Thanks, btw, this is cities skyline? How do you feel the fps, is it choppy or smooth?
yes it is Cities Skyline. It feels smooth, though this is an empty map with no buildings.
Skylines uses a lot of CPU power to simulate cars and pedestrians, so having a 20k population is when it gets really slow. If it's interesting to you, you can find pre-made cities (look for some without mods, because it's a pain to make them work) in the workshop. But it's usually heavily utilizing just 2-4 cores and if you have more, it does use them, but not heavily. So a perfect match for a 4+4 with good single-core performance 😀. It should run just fine (mostly depending on Rosetta performance), but it uses a lot of RAM.
I installed a city called pig iron. looks fairly big. The FPS drops to 20-30fps at 1650 x 1050. It is still very responsive and in my opinion quite playable.
Even at the lowest settings it is not getting above 30fps. Something is not right though. I am not seeing any animations within the scenario. As I have been focused on performance rather than the game, I was not looking game it in detail. I am not sure it is working properly.maybe with medium settings?
Actually pretty incredible if it is running 20-30FPS on a huge city - believe me, Skylines runs slow FPS on my desktop 9700K with 2060 SUPER. Your graphic settings are not the limit here - it's CPU bound game on all machines regardless of rendering settings - this is all about it rendering cars/pedestrians. This is MBA or MBP m1?
Its an MBA. The issue is it is not rendering the cars/pedestrians. The game appears to work in that the city can be loaded and explored, but there is no animation and no progress. You can add roads, building etc, but no-one comes to the city etc. It may just be that it is not installed correctly, but I tried re-installing it and it still did the same (but it also remembered previous settings so obviously didn't completely uninstall.
UMMMMMM...WHAT! My favorite game! What settings, rez??? Did you run the gathering storm or basic benchmark? I find it hard to believe it's running at 60FPS! Civ VI is another CPU limited game - I have a Dell XPS 13 9310 with i5-1135G7 Iris Xe chip and it is running the gathering storm benchmark at ~65ms average at the end.
