TS2010 Graphics

one more time, i have windows Visita with current nvidia Ge Force 7100 and im planning to get a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 on trainz2010 which it highly recommends NVIDIA GeForce 8600, and will this display a better graphics?

all i cansay is teh more ram you have teh better

It's not just your video card. What is your processor and memory system?

I am running TS2010 with a GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB on a 6yr old system with a P4, 3.4Ghz (OC to 3.8Ghz) with 3G DDR2 @ 533Mhz (OC to 600Mhz).
I get very low frame rates (12-15FPS) and a tremendous amount of stutter when running more than one train and/or in a high scenery area, unless I put the Max Draw Distance down to 2K or lower and scenery detail to Normal or lower.

If I try to capture a video with Fraps, forget it. FPS goes to 9 or lower.

When I look at my Windows 7 experience index, the CPU is the slowest. GPU is much higher, and I have done numerous tests that all show the CPU is the bottleneck, not the GPU/video system.

FW

well i highly recommend a much bigger video card than all of those you stated,
if you are running ts 2010 why would you not use the best video card you can
geforce 8600 are nearly 5 years old ,yes it will run ts 2010 but not to a great extent,
do your self a favor dont both with small video cards you will be disapointed
if the money is a problem thats fair enough but if you have the money bigger is better,
but it takes more than a good video card to make ts 2010 run well
CPU
RAM
VIDEO CARD
MOTHERBOARD
all of these make it run well
but at the end of the day you can only do what you can do depending on your money
steve

DON'T get your hopes up.....

I've just 'uprgaded' *cough* to 2010 from 2009 and I'm running a quad core i920 with an NVidia GTX 285 (1Gig DDR3)....and to be honest I'm appaled at how badly this game runs.

I ran the HST 125 in the King's Cross to York scenario and exited the game after 5 mins. The graphic stuttering compared to how well 2009 ran on the same maxed out settings was ridiculous.

The game states a 3.0 Gig Dual core processor with 256MB graphics ram as the minimum. I pity anyone who has bought the game and tried to run it on those specs.

tension69 said:

DON'T get your hopes up.....

I've just 'uprgaded' *cough* to 2010 from 2009 and I'm running a quad core i920 with an NVidia GTX 285 (1Gig DDR3)....and to be honest I'm appaled at how badly this game runs.

I ran the HST 125 in the King's Cross to York scenario and exited the game after 5 mins. The graphic stuttering compared to how well 2009 ran on the same maxed out settings was ridiculous.

The game states a 3.0 Gig Dual core processor with 256MB graphics ram as the minimum. I pity anyone who has bought the game and tried to run it on those specs.

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There are many things that can cause stuttering besides the video card and processor. I currently have a GTX470 and a similar processor. No problems what-so-ever including on the HST 125 route. The difference may be that I defrag my hard drives quite often and run very little background tasks other than is necessary to keep the system running. I have no chat clients, no internet clients, etc. running just my very small footprinted antivirus program called Vipre4.1, which has very little load on the system compared to Norton and other commercial products.

John

tension69 said:

I've just 'uprgaded' *cough* to 2010 from 2009 and I'm running a quad core i920 with an NVidia GTX 285 (1Gig DDR3)....and to be honest I'm appaled at how badly this game runs.

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Think you have something else causing you a problem, I can run the ECML route with no problems and an average of 35fps on my system.

My Specs?

AMD Athlon II X4 620 Processor (2.6ghz)
4gb DDR3 Memory
ATI HD5570 1GB DDR3
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB Hard Drive

So, my system which is not a touch on yours can run it better, some thing wrong somewhere.

Nathan

Definitely something else causing the problem.
On number 2 PC I have a GT 240 IGB DDR5, 4GB DDR3 ram and an AMD II X3 and no stuttering in ECML or anything else, frame rates are quite good as well again about 35FPS. My 6 Core PC is considerably better though.

Worth mentioning that after an initial install it was slow until I had run things a few times.

Likewise I have no other junk running on my Gaming PC's, regularly defrag and just use an AV which is excluded from going anywhere near Trainz. Trainz is installed on it's own 200GB drive which keeps it well away from any Win7 interference although I still run as Admin anyway.

To the OP and all others concerned:

TS2010 runs great on my 3.2Ghz dual-core, 4Gb, 8400GS, Windows XP-32bit gaming rig with all the sliders maxed out. It runs even better on XP-64, which I have dual-booting with that XP-32bit, since XP-64 can utilize memory better than 32-bit operating systems. The kicker is, Trainz ran pretty well on my minimum-spec 2.2Ghz (E2200), 1Gb memory system sitting next to my current one, now serving as an email/internet/putzing around machine, albeit I didn't max out anti-aliasing. The moral of the story is, Trainz can run well on a really, really low-end system and if there's an issue, you need to tweak your machine.

Two quick tips: Switching to DirectX from OpenGL (or vice-versa) often helps some people. There's a program called GameBooster which some here recommend to shut down unnecessary background processes.