A problematic Cities Skylines 2 orange screen bug occurs whenever players try to build anything, like a road, in the game. This glitch can also result in a yellow screen or white screen. Either way, it completely covers the entire screen, not allowing you to see what you’re doing. Many users on the official forums for the game on Steam and Paradox Interactive have reported the same issue and are looking for a fix. Fortunately, developer Colossal Order has acknowledged the problem and has responded to these reports. Here’s why the screen turns orange, white, or yellow while building objects in Cities Skylines 2 for PC.
How to fix Cities Skylines 2 orange screen bug
To fix the orange screen, white screen, or yellow screen bug in Cities Skylines 2, you need to make sure that you are not using an integrated graphics card.
As noted by a developer from Colossal Order on the Paradox Interactive forum, these various bug reports on this screen issue are “related to integrated graphic cards that are not support at the moment.” In particular, many players using an Intel Xe graphics card say that they are experiencing this glitch.
The developer may decide to have the game work with these types of GPUs and it will make an announcement if it will indeed be a part of the CS2 roadmap. But for now, Colossal Order actually recommends that you either get a dedicated graphics card or ask for a full refund from Steam. If you have a dedicated GPU, then it would be good to make sure that the game is running off that.
Unfortunately, this screen bug is not the only issue with Cities Skylines 2. There are some problems with the game crashing constantly to the desktop, launcher settings or invalid game settings, and numerous performance issues with low FPS and stuttering.
