How MANY high-polygon locomotive can YOU run at the same time?

[SantaFebuff]

Sounds stupid, but it's so fun!

I got 213 JointedRail CSX ES44DCs to fit on my small route and all run at the same time.

Here are some tips:
- Use the "Count Consist Car" rule. I got up to counting the 187th ES44DC before realizing I had the rule! :hehe:

I will post a screenshot tomorrow. I saved it as a session... (Called: Holy Sh@t, that's a lot of GEVO!) :hehe:

What's your number and locomotive?

Cheers,
Joshua

 

[barn700]

I have had in excess of 250 of my higher end steam locos running on a route in TS2010 of course.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I have a Vista Desktop with 3gb ram and a Nividia 8500GT video card...RRMods PRR SD45 super locomotive almost locks up Trainz, and is a slideshow at certain angles.

 

[al_sa]

I had an maximum of seven hi poly cars and locomotives, before glitching with bogeys began on 2009 as well as 2010, of cource on a laptop

 

[VinnyBarb]

If it is the same locomotive you can run a lot of them at the same time, more so than different types of hi poly locomotives. The reason? Your PC only has to load 1 instance of your one type of locomotive, whereas you are running different types of hi poly locomotives, several of them can bring your PC to a studder or stand still as your PC has to load all of these different type of locomotives into memory. Depending of course of the level of specs of your PC.

I once had almost 8000 of different textured of my created WW II tanks running on my PC on 1 base board only, these were over 3k polygons each (at the time a hi poly model) but since these used only some 6-7 different .im meshes, my PC only had to load them and the different textures into memory and I was still able to move around on the base board. At that time I posted some screen shots of them in this forum but sadly I can not find any more of these now .

This was with TRS04 some 2-3 years ago on an AMD 2600+, NVidia TI 4800 video, 2 GB RAM etc. My PC specs have considerable been upgraded since then :hehe:.

Cheers

VinnyBarb