All modifications in this game (excluding assets) will reduce your frame rate perfomance considerable.

These mods here have been tested at the current state to have the least amount of FPS loss and increase the experience/quality of the game.

"Traffic Manager: President Edition" and "Ambient Sounds Tuner 2.0 + Redcomet's Municipal Sound Pack" have the highest improvement to FPS-loss ratio. which is the best bargain if you wish to use mods.


As well as some other usefull basic tools are added to the mod collection + Mod Achievement Enabler to enable achievements while using mods and a FPS Display to you monitor your FPS and Automatic Bulldoze v2 to automaticly remove non active buildings and a Better Bulldozer to have enhanced options when bulldozing and a City Vitals Watch to quickly provide information about vital needs and a Enhanced Mouse Light to edit the light your mouse curser emits as well as color and Emergency Light Changer to change the light combination of your emergency vehicles and Sharp Textures to make graphics sharper and a Font selector to change the text design to your liking and Random Tree rotation to reduce making your placed trees look like paterns and Roads United: Core+ to make possible the use of US roads and Roads United: US Edition which I prefer for personal reasons since it got more of a 'look' and The Metropolitan Sound Pack and Ambient Sounds Tuner: KRA to fill in the ambient sounds not covered by Redcomet's Municipal Sound Pack and Satellite LUT for more realism colors and a Chirpy Exterminator.


How to config:

1. Subscribe to these mods.
   
   
2. Enable the mods in the content manager ingame.
   
   
3. Restart the game from desktop to ensure the game loads the mods properly.
   
   
4. Go to options.
   
   
5. Under mod settings select Ambient Sounds Tuner 2.0

• Now select the "Sound pack preset(s)" in this order by just simply selecting them one by one.

1. Kra's Base Sound Pack .
   
2. ASTMetropolitan.
   
3. RedcometMunicipalSoundPack.

This will load all the sound options from both 3 sound packs where "RedcometMunicipalSoundPack" will have the highest priority by loading it last, every sound setting not covered by "RedcometMunicipalSoundPack" will be covered by Kra's Base Sound Pack or ASTMetropolitan that way. (you have to select all these soundspacks again everytime you restart the game from desktop since it tells you it was unable to load them in once you restart the game, just make sure you load them again in the correct order)

For "Font selector" I recommend Font: "Nyala" with BaseSize increased to 17

At "Roads United: Core+" just make sure at; 'Select Road Theme'; "Roads United: US Edition - Reworked" is inserted.

"Enhanced Mouse Light" and "Traffic Manager: President Edition" need to be configed while playing with an actualy city since Traffic Manager: President Edition will have different setting with every save and Enhanced Mouse Light while it's night time in your city to see the propper effect you want for your mouse cursor.

• The only settings you have to bother with "Traffic Manager: President Edition" are all options below 'Advanced Vehicle AI' and 'Parking AI' under Gameplay options (and maybe 'Simulation accuracy' under General which explains by itself at options)

Last additional options is "Emergency Light Changer" where you can change between 'American' or 'European' setting.

Any other mod not mentioned in "How to config" doesn't need any editing in the configuration.

• If you are adding any other mods beside these ones make sure to test it with the FPS Display, this will tell you how much it will draw from your FPS, with and without that mod on. (make sure to have V-Sync disabled at the grapics options when testing, since V-Sync will lock down your frames to a maximum of 60 FPS thus you can't see any difference when changes happen above 60 FPS)

1. zoom out from the map as far as you can and save the game.
   
2. Use this 'save-game' to monitor your FPS with and without a mod, by keeping the screen at that same position as you had saved it and watch the FPS difference.
   
   
   • If you want to use construction mods like an anarchy or the 'Precision Engineering' mod, make sure you turn them off once you don't use them, for example the 'Precision Engineering' mod will draw around 5 FPS from your game when active.
     
   • Look at the fluctuations of the frame rate, is it at bewteen 60 and 50 or between 60 and 45 for example, what is it's high and what is it's low and where does it tend to go average with an additional mod active and when it's not active.
     
   • If you need a lot of aid from construction mods because you are a precision scientist just make sure you deactivate them when you are not using them.

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Definition - What does Frames Per Second (FPS) mean?
Frames per second (FPS) is a unit that measures display device performance. It consists of the number of complete scans of the display screen that occur each second. This is the number of times the image on the screen is refreshed each second, or the rate at which an imaging device produces unique sequential images called frames.
The greater the FPS, the smoother the video motion appears.