Is this a reasonable replacement?

Firstly Winterpaw - SLI? Good to know that the facilities on the pc I mentioned are reasonable. Yesterday was in a wee local pc shop and another customer made the comment that with train sims you only need a single core?? He mad a point of amphasising that with dual core you are not getting full use? Some clarification on that would be helpful. The supplier of this pc you answered me about can actually be got across the UK with 2 days so an impressive service. I know it's a Hobson's Choice but it can be got in Vista Premium or XP Home(or XP Professional 32 or 64). I want to do something really soon as my original pc is dead and the second one (2 were linked to one monitor) is not great with Trainz. Think it maty not have the pwer needed as things tend to pause every 10 cecs or so. A better pc is a must!

Ex-railwaymna. I do know about Misco but had forgot about them! Most packages you find that you can get them without a monitor and I already have one so don't need two! The usual reduction isa round £90 if you don't take their monitor.
 
Stay away from XP 64-bit. There are many bugs with this version of XP. If you plan on going 64-bit, go with Vista instead. TRS2006 and TS2009 run fine with this OS.

Regarding the multi-core processors. Go for the quad-core. There is plenty of use for the other cores particularly when you are running other software. I have found that my quad-core processors does help when I have multiple programs running at the same time. The performance is much better than it was with the dual-core I had previously.

John
 
half your ram and doubble you video card. Vista is quicker off the mark when loading all content than xp is re starting a session in trainz
so vista it should be
trainz only supports 2 gigs so you run into crashes if you use a HUGE layout.. the computerr will cache loads of items then feed them all to trainz. When 2 gigs is sent to trainz it can handle no more and your game will fall over cause you 4 gigs will support more. So vista 32 it should be
Also vista 64 will not support Net 1 so editing stuff in content manager plus is not a posablity, 04 and 09 do not suffer from that issue
 
I am thinking of going for this pc for TRS06 - but now I am being totally confused.

JCitron says Vista Premium 64 bit is fine with TRS2006, etc and winjmoore is telling me it should be 32bit Vista not 64?? Have held off phoning my order in and hopefully do it on Friday (the company does a fst turnoaround if i want) if I can have some clarity here. I appreciate the input as it is important I replace the pc I have but with two opposite views I don't know what to do fior the best! The fence sitting is painful......
 
I am using a machine with dual os's, Vista Home Edition 64 bit and also XP Pro 32 bit. and have issues on both OS's using 2009. I am not sure what the problem might be, as Auran hasn't replied to help in the issues, although they may be working on bug fixes.

2006 worked fine on both my laptop and my desktop, although I have not run them for a while. I will attempt to do so since I have changed my desktop.

The issues I have found, is with Ground textures not coming up very quickly or not at all when in driver mode. They seem to work fine in surveyor mode.
If anyone else has these issues, or has had these issues and cleared them up, I would like to hear from them.

jasher25@hotmail.com
 
That sounds encouraging whitepass so thanks for that added info.

With my main pc going phut and the secondary one not quite up to Trainz (06 at present) I need to get something better. I have set the secondary machine to the max mist drawing mist thingy so I get stretched to nearly 30 seconds running before it sticks for 10 then a constant repeat! Once I have a better machine I will think about uploading my first route now done which is a whole city tramway over 240 boards.
 
I am using a machine with dual os's, Vista Home Edition 64 bit and also XP Pro 32 bit. and have issues on both OS's using 2009. I am not sure what the problem might be, as Auran hasn't replied to help in the issues, although they may be working on bug fixes.

2006 worked fine on both my laptop and my desktop, although I have not run them for a while. I will attempt to do so since I have changed my desktop.

The issues I have found, is with Ground textures not coming up very quickly or not at all when in driver mode. They seem to work fine in surveyor mode.
If anyone else has these issues, or has had these issues and cleared them up, I would like to hear from them.

jasher25@hotmail.com

Hi Jasher,

This is a known "bug" in TS2009. It appears that everyone seems to have this problem. The other issue is in Surveyor when saving the ground goes blue for a long time before the terrain is redrawn.

In the future please don't post your email in the post directly. The reason is you'll leave yourself open for spam bots to get a hold of your mailing address.

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@ rjhowie,

How'd you make out with your machine?

John
 
Hi John,

Seriously thinking of going for that . Think I confused things a wee bit in that the memory is 4GB I had been looking through what you can add to the order. Certainly looks lot better than the situ I have.

PROCESSOR: Intelcore2Duo E8500
MOTHERBOARD ASRock Penryn 1600SLI-110DB 650i SLI Chipset, 3xPCI-E Slots, 4 DDR800 Slots
MEMORY: SAMSUNG 4GB DDR2 800Mhz PC6400
HARD DRIVE: Maxtor 500GB SATA2/7200RPM/8MB cache
OPTICAL DRIVE: SONY 20xDVD+/-RW Dual Layer & Dual Format with Lightscribe
GRAPHICS CARD: nVIDIA GTX260 896MB 16XPCI-Express SLI
CONNECTIONS: 6 x USB2.0. Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000
SOFTWARE & EXTRAS: Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition. AVG Anti-Virus package. Open Office Suite, Nero Burning Version 7.0 inc Lightscribe

Think I must get round to doing something rather than pussyfoot around much longer! Can ordser on the net or phone and the turnaround is quite fast. I do need the upgraded situaion for my TRS2006!

Bobby


 
That's an awesome machine, Bobby. :D The graphics card is sweet. I've been eyeing that on myself, but my job situation isn't good and I don't want to spend any extra money I don't have right now.

The 4-gigs of RAM are great. You'll find that Trainz does less caching because the OS will be out of the way.

Have you looked at 1TB drives? They're pretty inexpensive compared to the 500GB. I paind $150 for a 1TB recently when the 500GB was going for $100. Just a thought although I don't want to confuse your situation. I understand when your machine is doing the slow death. It becomes pretty important to upgrade/replace before it becomes too late - been there and done that before and regreted not being able to get the stuff off the dead hard disk before the time became more than critical.

Anyhow, best of luck. Remember to install Trainz as Administrator under Vista. This will save you the headaches later on when you run the program.

John
 
Hello again John,

Yes the pc does sound what I want. I had 2 pc's linked to the one keyboard/monitor. It was my No 1 pc that went belly up and the second machine struggles with Trainz. I have safegardede my large city tramway (covers the whole of Glasgow and suburbs) spent two and a half years building toff and on. Have a copy of the cdp and the Local Folder on an external HD. Anyway as for the pc it costs £599 in our money and sounds ideal. You can also add what you want on the company website or over the phone so may consider that HD upgrade as you suggest. What caught my eye too was that even with qadding anything the machine can be got within a few days. It will be good to get back to running trains and especially my massive tramway (streetcars!) without being frozen every 30 seconds. Even stretching to that was by setting the mist bit. Will note what you said about Vista and when installing as Administrator. Just for the record at what point us that done??

Bobby
 
Don't know if this is a problem re the pc details I gave. I have been surfing reviews of the company concerned and their have been mixed comments - some good and others the opposite. I know this can happen with just about anyone. However I have discovered the company concerned charges 4% (not mentioned on their site -Pailcomp Ltd) for credit cards and if any problem with pc's they will only pick up and take back within 7 days. The alternative is to pay £60 for a year. They also press for you to but delivery insurance. There is a delivery charge of £25. All this makes me a wee bit wary.

Alternatively looking at one of the more well known bigger national companies here I notice this (not in the 0same specs league I suppose).

Intel Core 2 Duo Core Proc
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
ASUS PSQL Pro motherboard, etc
4096 MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM )2xGB)
500 GB Hard Drive
512 ATi HD4679 Graphics accelerator
aAroutine softaware bundle.
For an extra £20 you can have 1GB ATi HD4670 Grahpics - and for £40 extra 1GB NVDIA GeForxce 9600GT as just two cheaper examples in the customise area.
Warranty is the standard 12 months collect and return and delivery is free with this one.

Am I being over cautious with the first lot with the extra charges kicking in, etc?
 
Don't know if this is a problem re the pc details I gave. I have been surfing reviews of the company concerned and their have been mixed comments - some good and others the opposite. I know this can happen with just about anyone. However I have discovered the company concerned charges 4% (not mentioned on their site -Pailcomp Ltd) for credit cards and if any problem with pc's they will only pick up and take back within 7 days. The alternative is to pay £60 for a year. They also press for you to but delivery insurance. There is a delivery charge of £25. All this makes me a wee bit wary.

Alternatively looking at one of the more well known bigger national companies here I notice this (not in the 0same specs league I suppose).

Intel Core 2 Duo Core Proc
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
ASUS PSQL Pro motherboard, etc
4096 MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM )2xGB)
500 GB Hard Drive
512 ATi HD4679 Graphics accelerator
aAroutine softaware bundle.
For an extra £20 you can have 1GB ATi HD4670 Grahpics - and for £40 extra 1GB NVDIA GeForxce 9600GT as just two cheaper examples in the customise area.
Warranty is the standard 12 months collect and return and delivery is free with this one.

Am I being over cautious with the first lot with the extra charges kicking in, etc?

This computer sounds perfectly OK.

I would not trust the other company either.
 
Thanks for the Captain Collins. They are rather dodgy as I came across a reference to them regarding EBay and people who were unhappy too.

Think I might be safer with this latest one from a more reputable company and normal guarantees, etc.
 
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