Aquarium update: after waiting probably too long for the new tank to settle, I decided to add livestock (some neon tetra's and panda corydoras). It's been going great. I also had totally forgotten that Cities:Skylines 2 launched this week. Supposedly it's optimized more poorly than Cyberpunk was at launch, making 4090's sweat if you have the wrong settings. But I was due for a GPU upgrade anyway - my ancient 1060 couldn't manage a playable framerate in CP2077 even if it were in optimal condition.
Lol, I tried CS2 on my 1060 and got a whopping 7 FPS. But that may also be because the _city_ builder is rendering detailed _teeth_ for every citizen
This will be a great game in 3-5 years after a half dozen expansions. Paradox games should never be played at release but they are always crazy expensive for the whole game once expansions release. If you actually want to play it on your hardware try GeForce now and see how it runs on a 4080. That might help bridge the gap. Otherwise just return it by using the Steam 4 hour refund policy. By the time the expansions come out and it’s playable the base game will be 10-20$ and you will get the expansion for 20$ each