Yes, elsewhere in the thread it was shared that lighting takes a big chunk of time at the game start: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17gfq13/c

Yes, elsewhere in the thread it was shared that lighting takes a big chunk of time at the game start: https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17gfq13/comment/k6hvdjb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17gfq13/com... In another comment there was a link to https://twitter.com/AtkosKhan/status/1717525097626349696?s=20 https://twitter.com/AtkosKhan/status/1717525097626349696?s=2... with a note that it can increase FPS by 100% by just removing cim rendering using the game's developer mode, so it *does* seem like cim rendering does have major impact in the game performance, if you have cims to begin with :). edit: Curious coincidence though that there are LOD improvements in the C:S2 hotfix released yesterday: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-for-1-0-11f1-hotfix.1604140/ https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-for...