While I am yet to spend much time playing Cities XL 2011, it certainly looks like a fun city building game that players can pour countless hours into. For the most part the game plays pretty well, but honestly it would play so much better if it were better designed to utilize today’s hardware. It has been quite some time since we have tested a game that is not even properly dual-core optimized.
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Shooter |
Posted on: 10/19/2010 12:02 PM
wow single core only... ultimate suckage. I have never heard of this series but since you tested it I decided to take a look. I am really only into makes where you shoot things but this does look interesting apart from the fact that is plays poorly on monster rigs. |
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simestr |
Posted on: 10/20/2010 01:00 PM
I found this while looking through Google for Cities XL 2011 save games  Cool article thanks, looks like my puter should run it well. |
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SimGuy |
Posted on: 10/22/2010 01:52 AM
Here's to hoping they release some sort of patch for this title, because it's fun as hell to play when its NOT stuttering. |
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Simguy |
Posted on: 11/10/2010 11:00 AM
Everything just lags after the city is a considerable size.. and changing graphic settings didn't help at all.. Hope there's a patch that will fix this problem, because right now the lagging is unbearable.. |
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Elliot |
Posted on: 08/17/2011 10:30 PM
Very good, and accurate article. Even with the recent patches XL 2011 lags horribly. It is very disappointing, because it is enjoyable until you reach almost 100k population. The menus lag AWFUL. So you're building a road, then you click to switch to residential... wait 3-5 seconds... lay a square. Switch to industrial... wait 3-5 seconds... switch back to roads... wait 3-5 seconds. Suddenly the game is no fun any more. Actually it's quite miserable. I hope in 2012 they have fixed these issues. Not sure I'm willing to spend the money again on it until I read the reviews. My advice.. save your money from xl 2011. It's just not playable, even on amazing gaming computers. |
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campdude |
Posted on: 09/10/2011 11:24 PM
Just detered my purchase. Cities XL 2012 is coming soon so hopefully they find that one to be multi-core optimized. SO far in city building the alternative is still SimCity 4... which is only single threaded but 7 years old. lol |
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Eduardo |
Posted on: 12/03/2011 10:19 PM
CXL 2012 is out! but basicaly is a DLC for the 2011 version(more buildings and maps) that means it has the SAME BUGS and is still sigle-core Focus said already that there no plan of re-write the whole game engine to make it multi-core optimized. |