Graphic Card

[Kris94]

Would a Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 graphic card be suitable for trainz?

 

[bobhahn]

In a word, yes

I installed one last night to replace a GTX9800. It screams. I'm getting 40-50 fps on East Kentucky 3 (SpeedTree version) in DirectX mode, 16-20 fps in OpenGL.

The real reason I got it was the hope that it would eliminate the very annoying periodic (like one a minute) momentary freezes where everything would go black for about a second. That is apparently a very common problem on Win7 machines, whether NVidia or ATI cards. I can't say for sure that's gone away, only that I have not seen one since putting in the 570.

If you buy one, make sure you have the power supply for it. Mine (EVGA) wants two of those 6-pin PCI-E power cables. These can be faked with adapters that take two of the old style molex connectors each.

 

[JCitron]

Also make sure your case stays cool. NVidia cards cook everything very badly.

Bob is also right. Ensure your power supply can handle the load. They tend to pull very hard on the power supply too.

John

 

[Kris94]

So if I upgrade from Vista to 7 how will that work?

 

[jrfolco]

I've been running a Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 for about nine months, and works fine on Win XP Pro.

Joe

 

[SuperFudd]

In my ~9 years of Trainz I have never had the screen go black like that.
See current system below.

 

[ct_krogen]

Would a Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 graphic card be suitable for trainz?

yes, it would,,,,

 

[bobhahn]

In my ~9 years of Trainz I have never had the screen go black like that.
See current system below.

I'm sure it's not a Trainz issue. Heck, I've had it happen with nothing open but Firefox. From Googling around, it appears to be a Windows 7/64-bit issue. But I have now gone two wondrous days (with the GTX 570) without it happening. Keeping fingers crossed.

 

[bunkerrattmk2]

ts2012 runs fine on win7 64 bit

INTEL e6750 core2 duo 2.66@2.75x8/thermaltake big typhoon cpu cooler
8gb OCZ pc2 6400 ram in dual chanel @4-4-4-11@2.1v
TWIN 100 GB HDD'S IN RAID 0
twin asus A T I eah 3850's in crossfire@718/998
dual asus dvdr rw optical burnner drives drives
asus p5q deluxe mobo
collermaster 850watt psu
thermaltake full armour full STEEL case
creative x fi extreme gamer sound card/5.1 surround.
acer x213h 22 inch ws lcd 1920x1080
windows 7 64 bit

 

[JCitron]

I'm sure it's not a Trainz issue. Heck, I've had it happen with nothing open but Firefox. From Googling around, it appears to be a Windows 7/64-bit issue. But I have now gone two wondrous days (with the GTX 570) without it happening. Keeping fingers crossed.

Bob,

Contact your card manufacturer. There maybe a memory-related issue here. I too have never had a card freeze like that unless there were actual problems even with Windows 7/64-bit with the latest drivers supported for the card.

John

 

[Dep]

Something the OP needs to describe is his OS. If he is using XP 32 bit there is the memory ceiling of 4 GIG. If the computer has 4 GIG of Ram and you install a video card with 2 GIG of RAM, you will NOT get the benefit of the extra RAM on the video card. Win XP 32 bit has a built-in limit of 4 GIG of RAM in total. That INCLUDES the RAM on the video card. If he is using XP 64 bit it can support 128 GIG of RAM. Same limits apply for Windows 7 32 bit, but Win7 64 bit can support up to 192 GIG of RAM in the Professional and higher versions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(v=VS.85).aspx