improving performance of 2012

[jamesgriffin]

Is there a way to increase the buffer settting to use more ram instead of hard disk in 2012? I have windows 7 64 bit with 16gig of ram and in task manager, trainz is only using a small amount of that, however the hard drive light is going full speed. How about using a ramdisk with trainz?

I have even considered using a SSD drive now that they are pretty cheap.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

 

[JCitron]

Hi Jim,

I have the same amount of RAM and do not have that kind of issues with my system. Without knowing the full details of your computer, it is hard to make specific suggestions. Would you mind posting some computer details for us?

So having said this there are a lot of things that can cause this including disk fragmentation, unnecessary background applications running, an antivirus program that constantly scans every and every opened file, and Trainz opens a lot of files while in operation, and in particular Microsoft's own file indexing process. I suggest checking these things for starts and let us know what the results are.

John

 

[Dermmy]

I use SSDs for Trainz and they unquestionably speed things up, but Trainz will still access the drive constantly...

 

[Robert2d6]

Get an SSD and put your operating system and Trainz on it.

 

[Beattie]

Did you try this suggestion? http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?92805-Help-trainz-12-run-smoother-simple-quick-tip

 

[jamesgriffin]

This is my current config file:

-DepthBits=24
-StencilBits=8
-Jet=bin
-cabinfov=60
-DefaultAutoMip=none
-DynamicVertexBufferSize=4194304
-DynamicIndexBufferSize=196608
-VBO
-width=1024
-height=768
-framerate=200

My system info is:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name JIMDELL
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model XPS 8300
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A06, 10/17/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 16.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 12.6 GB
Total Virtual Memory 32.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 28.4 GB
Page File Space 16.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Beattie]

you should have the trainz config file look like this
-DepthBits=24
-StencilBits=8
-Jet=bin
-cabinfov=60
-DefaultAutoMip=none
-DynamicVertexBufferSize=4194304
-DynamicIndexBufferSize=196608
-VBO
-framerate=25
-framestoaverage=16
Well at least that how mine is setup

 

[johnwhelan]

I'm missing what the video card is.

Thanks John

 

[Robert2d6]

I'm missing what the video card is.

Thanks John

Which probably is the most important spec.....

 

[BD1]

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