The GPU and CPU combo going to be a limiter still.
FPS Spikes
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Not really. From experience, Trainz does a lot of reading at load time but not a lot while running your route. You can see this if you bring up Task Manager and then click on the performance tab then your hard disk.
Watch the graphs and the numbers at the bottom.
What I noticed on my system is a huge write cycle being done when content is being validated. I also noticed that SP5 does a lot of validating and this constant asset validating causes a big performance hit. How to get past this is another issue altogether. I tried precaching content and that didn't help.
johnwhelan
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Agreed but you need a decent power supply and lots of cooling as well. Then it's wack a mole, which bit becomes the new bottleneck.
I'm not even sure just selecting the right content would be better. I ran some comparative tests on an RTX 2070, an RTX 4000 and a RTX 3080 all gave reasonable 30 fps frame rates but the GPU usage rate was slightly different but not by a great amount.
Cheerio John
Can you advise what your DLSS settings are?
He has a 600 watt PSU now....that should be fine. Extra cooling will probably help only if the GPU gets too hot. I have an RTX 2070, 3070, and 4080 12G. I like to run with it locked at 60 FPS. The 2070 cannot do this. The 3070 will, but creates blast furnace type heat. The 4080 doesn't whimper at all and the temp stays about 48*C.
I can't imagine how hard that 4G GPU of his is working.
A faster NVME is a waste of money and will not speed up Trainz. I mentioned this in another thread a month or so ago.
Here's the same question asked on Tom's Hardware forums.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/will-m-2-nvme-increase-fps-in-gaming.3547789/#post-21428098
A faster GPU is your best bet, but you need to ensure that your CPU can keep up with the new GPU, otherwise there will be a bottleneck.
Here's the same question asked on Tom's Hardware forums.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/will-m-2-nvme-increase-fps-in-gaming.3547789/#post-21428098
A faster GPU is your best bet, but you need to ensure that your CPU can keep up with the new GPU, otherwise there will be a bottleneck.
AdvancedApproach
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AdvancedApproach
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Based on what I'm seeing the worst buffer and index count is that fence. Now there may be other problems yet to be discovered but the fence clearly is causing some sort of trouble.
AdvancedApproach
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This is in surveyor mode. I'll do this in driver mode too.
AdvancedApproach
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Getting a faster NVME isn't a waste of money. It does help in some major regards. Particularly when it comes to downloading items off the DLS, Trainz Store or even installing TRS22 itself. It does also load up much quicker than on my old computer with a SATA SSD. For those who purchased Trainz through steam, the amount of time to download the 13GB base game is much faster on NVME SSD Drives. It could take up to an hour maybe longer depending on internet bandwidth when using SATA SSD.
No one is arguing about the NVME......but looking at his system, the weak link right now is that GPU.....it is too slow and little RAM to go along with the speed. If you were to pick the ONE thing that will give him the biggest bang for the buck, it would be a new GPU.
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Download speed is bound by your network and not your hard disks. The actual installation will be faster due to the fast read speeds.
I have Xfinity high speed cable and I have spinning rust and it doesn't take that long to download and install content. I do use enterprise-quality Iron Wolf drives that may make a difference with the large caches but they are not as fast as SSDs, and I keep the hard disks defragmented. I use these because the cost of 8TB SSDs was $849 each versus $250 each at time and they still cost that now.