I am about 780 pop on my latest game, the odd lag but quite playable. I use the small map, which is still huge and I have foliage turned off which I think improves the ‘look’ anyway.
Intel(R) Core™ i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz with 8GB RAM
small map does save a bit of ram. And they load much faster also.
SSD helps a lot also if you only have 8gigs since you will be paging
like crazy. (nothing beats real ram though)
Yeah I have foliage off also and I also think it looks better.