How to improve framerate Windows 7 and Alienware

[norfolksouthern37]

unfortunately i cannot recommend an upgrade to you. my specs were not available at the alienware site and i had it special ordered. at the time i got this, i7s were brand new and there were no nvidia graphics offerings at alienware (and im an nvidia fanboy i guess). as with anything computer as soon as you get what you want its outdated and now the options are greater.

 

[pdwood]

unfortunately i cannot recommend an upgrade to you. my specs were not available at the alienware site and i had it special ordered. at the time i got this, i7s were brand new and there were no nvidia graphics offerings at alienware (and im an nvidia fanboy i guess). as with anything computer as soon as you get what you want its outdated and now the options are greater.

OK - I'm using ATI not that that would make a big difference I should think..

PDW

 

[pdwood]

Ok many thanks for all the advice from many of you. It is great to get a response on things like this.

On balance it sounds as though there are no quick and easy "fixes" though - I just put it down to the limitations of Trainz and my laptop - which as Zec says is not recommended in any case to run Trainz.

I will go through all the suggestions in any case to see if any are ikley to make a significant difference. If I discover any major improvements you will be the first to know!

pdw
Oslo

Ok - I have been working further with my Alianware laptop and Trainz 2010 - working on a heavy route with about 60-70 kms of track (Norway) and a lot of built up areas, forest, etc.

I found that running this in a Window - whilst Internet Explorer is aso running in another windows for maps, etc - works just fine. In fact 2010 seems to be more stable and smooth in a window than when running in full screen mode! I don't understand why, but I'm not complaining!!

You technical guys can maybe explain why this would be the case? I thought that running programmes in a window was more demanding on the PC than full screen?

Glad if anybody can explain this?

pdw

 

[Fabartus]

Ok - I have been working further with my Alianware laptop and Trainz 2010 - working on a heavy route with about 60-70 kms of track (Norway) and a lot of built up areas, forest, etc.

I found that running this in a Window - whilst Internet Explorer is aso running in another windows for maps, etc - works just fine. In fact 2010 seems to be more stable and smooth in a window than when running in full screen mode! I don't understand why, but I'm not complaining!!

You technical guys can maybe explain why this would be the case? I thought that running programmes in a window was more demanding on the PC than full screen?

Glad if anybody can explain this?

pdw

I know this thread went 'stale and orphaned' but I while I can only make a guess as a computer engineer, I'd like to point out Jcitron (who emailed me to look at this link--and also runs sometimes on an Alienware laptop computer) reported the same deal and improved performance with The teething Troubles of TS12-SP1 to me by phone and when driving to a Antique Engines meet yesterday in Orange, MA. We're speculating that the development team may be running in windowed mode more often than not and so missing the performance degradation seen by the many in full screen mode. John is planning to quantify the differences, but the phenomenon is very real, even shows on his HOT HOT Really HOT gamer's 'desktop tower' computer and the hot laptop too.

I'm only guessing, but it may be that Windows manages graphics card writing write throughput's better than the code of 'full screen' mode. TADdaemon also seems to be involved, it seems to document a big write to memory and a cache reloading when TS12-SP1 goes into freeze mode so unpleasantly. John is speculating that may be over taxing the system, and it would be interesting to be able to disable TADdaemon to test it. (Renaming it to kill it, didn't work, Trainz want's it or crashes as implemented)

John will tell us more when he's figured something out. // Frank

 

[norfolksouthern37]

you cannot disable TADD, that request does not even make sense. TADD is required to bring anything out of the database. without the database, trainz is nothing.