Cities XL

What works

Game installation, Game startup. All game play features tested so far.

What does not

Everything I tested so far works. Creating a city, putting down roads, industrial areas, commercial areas, houses, etc. Growing city.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Higher level industries, houses, commercial buildings, etc. This can be a time consuming process, it takes a while to build up to big cities. So far everything works fine, but I did not grow my city into a huge city. It is possible that there will be performance or stability problems if you grow huge cities. YMMV.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

WARNING! I could NOT get this game to work with wine 1.5.23. Nine times out of ten it would not start, and the few times it did start it would not run for more than a minute. If I had to rate this with Wine 1.5.23, it would get a GARBAGE rating. This is the error that wine 1.5.23 gives: fixme:d3d:wined3d_buffer_preload Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting With Wine 1.4.1 does not have this problem, and it seems to work fine out of the box with no tweaking at all. Performance is MUCH BETTER than with Cities XL 2012. I'm not sure what they changed, but Cities XL 2012 was very slow, annoyingly slow to the point of being painful to play. Cities XL Platinum performs *much* better.

 

2015-04-20 Admin note: the following was extracted from a user comment made in 2014 and may not be relevant to current Wine.

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Please modify the graphics configuration file in order to improve the game performance:

1. Open the folder Cities XL Platinum located on the hard disk.
2. The default path is the Local Disk (C:), Program Files or Program Files (x86), Steam, SteamApps then Common.
3. Open the folder Data then the folder Config.
4. Right click the file GlobalSettings.cfg and click Edit or open the file using the Notepad.
5. Go to the line Live and set PoolSize to 4096
4096
6. Go to the line Layout and set ProcessEnabled to 0
0
7. Go to the line Visibility Manager and set VisibilityEnabled to 1
1
8. Save the file GlobalSettings.cfg and run the game.

As soon as you experience major slowdowns with your city, please save your city then quit the game (go back to the main menu) and reload your city.