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    HP moving to Linux as standard OS for laptops. Windows is a optional extra cost.

    Lenovo have been offering unix at a lower cost than windows for some time. Their experience has been lower returns, fewer customer support calls, cost savings about $100 per unit. Also Linux runs happily with 4 gigs of memory, windows needs 8 for reasonable performance. So yes Trainz is a...
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    Screenshot of The Week: February 23 to March 9 2026 (No Theme)

    No I'm sure they were present and have now dissappeared. John
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    Screenshot of The Week: February 23 to March 9 2026 (No Theme)

    The scores seem to be missing? John
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    All Tutorials

    You may wish to put a link into https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz Cheerio John
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    explain how to upgrade files

    Take a look at kuid2:86627:100077:3, basically the content creator normally does this and if its just a warning ignore it. The lm.txt file references the .im file, if you using LOD more than one file goes in the lm.txt file. Cheerio John
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    Moving the laptop screen over to a larger size monitor

    Missed that version of the laptop, you could try windows task manager, bottom bar right click, second icon down performance, the GPU should show what it is. Cheerio John
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    Moving the laptop screen over to a larger size monitor

    Integrated graphics 3d score around 2,700 https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php normally 10,000 is considered reasonable for Trainz and these days most desktop users run with a score of 15,000 or more. Soset the performance sliders back down. Middleton for laptops...
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    Moving the laptop screen over to a larger size monitor

    Which laptop model? Thanks John
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    UK Screenshots for Pre BR Blue. High resolution warning.

    Strangely enough I can see them fine in Canada. John
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    In search of Mexican figures

    Have a dig in the forum, https://forums.auran.com/threads/more-characters-from-the-1920s.183345/post-2078045 for example. I think these were made with a tool then brought into Blender so ask how it was done or the answer might even be in the forum. Cheerio John
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    In search of Mexican figures

    Have you tried creating content yourself? John
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    PVEsoft downloads

    7 zip. https://www.7-zip.org/download.html Cheerio John
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    PVEsoft downloads

    https://www.jatws.org/johnw/pevstools.7z they should all be in there. Cheerio John
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    UK Screenshots (Hi Res Version)

    Level of Detail, in theory things look the same but use a lower detailed mesh in the distance. For lower end machines it means you get the same visual performance with better frame rates. Somewhere in the forum there is a quote, "it runs on my machine so why should I bother with poly counts...
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    Coils bleed thru hoods on the WRWK coil cars

    you might like to edit your email address out to save the bots picking it up. John
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