Laptop To Run Trainz

[steve123]

I have no idea about laptops so if you guys and girls could suggest a good laptop that will run Trainz 10 + 12 without much lag it would greatly help
or are they much the same as desktops as far as hardware goes
i will not be able to reply to this until maybe Monday as i am in a snooker tournament this weekend.

thanks steve

 

[fran1]

Personally I wouldn't use a laptop for trainz, but if you insist make it a gaming one, top end.
It will cost as much as a desktop though if not more. For eg an i7 2630m processor, nvid gtx460m graphics, 750 g hard drive, 80g SSD hard drive, 6g ram. This is a medion erazor 6813 for £979.

 

[Originalwelshborder]

I run on a Medion laptop too-purchased from Aldi in the UK but these laptops may not be available outside europe? Mine's an Akoya, not top spec, running Intel i3 chip so it pays to turn the sliders etc well down, so it's not ideal but will run.

Concentrate on getting the best possible on-board graphics as well as decent size ram, as you can't upgrade the graphics capability at all after purchase.

 

[npr284]

I had an ADI H3200 onboard chip on my HP desktop and it "worked" ok for TS2010, but not with the speed treez turned on. There's a neat utility plugin to turn them off, for slower machines.

I made the decision to get a video card that could really handle TS2010 and it payed off. (see signature) I have two desktops. One runs TRS2004 only, the other runs TS2010 only and that is only a dual-core unit. The other is a quad. The dual core has an ATI H6750 card and TS2010 runs just fine with speedtreez enabled. Thou, I do not like them much.

Trainz is a VERY graphics intensive program. And there is probably no provision to add video cards to laptops, just yet, because they can not be made small enough to fit. It's easy to see that it's not a good idea to use them for Trainz.

 

[JCitron]

Hi Steve,

I have a high end gamer's laptop by Alienware (Dell). This is the equivalent to a portable desktop.

The specs are as follows:

Processor: i7 2.8
2x hd 620GB RAID 0 = 1.4 TB
Crossfire discrete ATI video - 5870 (important for Trainz)
Network. etc.
Soundblaster Audio
17" LED backed LCD display
It runs Trainz well enough to keep the sliders full stop just like my desktop machine.

The M17x is quite the machine, but you pay the price for it. At nearly $3000 it's not the average lapktop and cost a lot more than a decent desktop, which is about 1/2 that.

When compared to other high end graphics-capable laptops, this machine is a lot less expensive. I initially looked at the 7xx series Lenovo machines and HP mobile workstations, but their video was an older NVIDIA chipset, which was really too slow, or it was the CAD chip and still that was too and old for what it was.

John

 

[Wyonate]

I have a brand new laptop and it sucks. I have been running trs06 and it does't handle it very well. I'm going back to a desk top. I built a route when I first got this thing and only laid down about 30 miles of mainline and added some industries and it wouldn't load the route anymore. I'm not to happy with this laptop. I guess what really burns my a$$ about it is that the guy at BestBuy said it could handle the game. If I had known, I never would have bought it.

 

[johnwhelan]

I have a brand new laptop and it sucks. I have been running trs06 and it does't handle it very well. I'm going back to a desk top. I built a route when I first got this thing and only laid down about 30 miles of mainline and added some industries and it wouldn't load the route anymore. I'm not to happy with this laptop. I guess what really burns my a$$ about it is that the guy at BestBuy said it could handle the game. If I had known, I never would have bought it.

If its dual core and it probably is you'll probably get better performance out of TS10/12.

Basically for the same money a desktop will run Trainz better.

Cheerio John

 

[JCitron]

I have a brand new laptop and it sucks. I have been running trs06 and it does't handle it very well. I'm going back to a desk top. I built a route when I first got this thing and only laid down about 30 miles of mainline and added some industries and it wouldn't load the route anymore. I'm not to happy with this laptop. I guess what really burns my a$$ about it is that the guy at BestBuy said it could handle the game. If I had known, I never would have bought it.

You have to remember that many of the Best Buy sales geeks, or most of them in every other super store, have no clue about Trainz and its requirements. This is why I went with an Alienware machine. I had to spec out the parts myself from their list of available components rather than purchasing a prebuilt machine off the shelf.

John

 

[Wyonate]

Yeah its a dual core but I should have never went to BestBuy. I still run 06 cuz there is more stuff available. Plus anything that comes out for 09 or 10 I can convert to 06.
My desk top that I lost to my ex, I had custom built. Asus everthing. I had 298 miles of mainline and numerous industries, and a couple hundred more miles of sidings and spurs. Basicly so many it was kinda tough to run that route cuz if you forgot an industry, it wouldn't get service for a day or 2. Lots of helper service going over a couple steep grades... so forth and so on. Anyway.. that machine could handle it with no problems. No lag or anything. I was thinking about getting ts10 but probably not until there is better content available. And I'm NOT paying for anymore content. Not when I can build content for free and looks twice as good. Not sayin most content is junk cuz its not. But if i'm gonna pay for it, I wanna hold it in my hand lol. When and if some of the good creators come back and build stuff for 10, I'll buy 10 or 12. But as of now, nah.
But Jointed Rail's stuff looks pretty good but its worth paying for. If you compare the looks of what SPorBust has built campared to their stuff... I'd take SPorBust's content any day. It looks more realistic and don't have a "digitalized" look. Same with Cloaked Ghost's content. That stuff looks amazing.
But anyways, as far as laptops goes in Trainz, not good lol

 

[captainkman]

Hello,

I run Trainz on an HP Pavillion Entertainment Notebook PC. Trainz 2010 runs very well, even on Avery-Drexel. It only really runs sluggishly on PO&N Multiplayer.
TS12 runs well too, even the N&W route. The ECML route does alright, being laggy, but is faster than PO&N.

Here are my specs:
OS: Windows Vista SP2
Processor: Intel Core Duo CPU T6400
Memory: 2,048 MB installed memory, with 2 memory slots
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 series @ res. 1366 x 768

Fore more specs please ask me.

I hope this info is useful!

 

[NSWGR_46Class]

Laptops and Trainz will run ok as long as it has a dedicated graphics card and not an intergrated graphics card. It the same as using a mother baord with on board graphics or a dedicated video card.

 

[johnwhelan]

Yeah its a dual core but I should have never went to BestBuy. I still run 06 cuz there is more stuff available. Plus anything that comes out for 09 or 10 I can convert to 06.
My desk top that I lost to my ex, I had custom built. Asus everthing. I had 298 miles of mainline and numerous industries, and a couple hundred more miles of sidings and spurs. Basicly so many it was kinda tough to run that route cuz if you forgot an industry, it wouldn't get service for a day or 2. Lots of helper service going over a couple steep grades... so forth and so on. Anyway.. that machine could handle it with no problems. No lag or anything. I was thinking about getting ts10 but probably not until there is better content available. And I'm NOT paying for anymore content. Not when I can build content for free and looks twice as good. Not sayin most content is junk cuz its not. But if i'm gonna pay for it, I wanna hold it in my hand lol. When and if some of the good creators come back and build stuff for 10, I'll buy 10 or 12. But as of now, nah.
But Jointed Rail's stuff looks pretty good but its worth paying for. If you compare the looks of what SPorBust has built campared to their stuff... I'd take SPorBust's content any day. It looks more realistic and don't have a "digitalized" look. Same with Cloaked Ghost's content. That stuff looks amazing.
But anyways, as far as laptops goes in Trainz, not good lol

Most earlier content runs in TS2010, up to sp3 it still has compatibility mode and it can make use of your dual core TRS2006 only uses one.

Cheerio John

 

[mity22]

the only Trainz I run on my laptop is classics as its smaller I also used to run 2006 on my old laptop till it killed it for 2010 up keep to a desktop its safer.

 

[steve123]

well thanks for the heads up on laptops, it looks as if i will save my money and stick with the desktops i have.

and we won the snooker competition, it was a doubles comp and we scored $350.00 for the win each

so thanks for the heads up on laptops
steve

 

[TRBasher]

Here is my laptop, it is kinda over the top but I spend 3.5 weeks a month on the road so I needed something that can do it all

MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 2820QM @ 2.30GHz 69 °C
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Alienware M17xR3 (CPU1)
Graphics
AMD Radeon HD 6990M 2gig GDDR5
Hard Drives
1465GB FUJITSU M17X_RAID0 (RAID)

 

[rastis]

G'day! :wave:

I run TS12 on an ASUS Lamborghini VX-7 with the lowest FPS being around 29.6. Only downside of the laptop that it's very expensive. Specifications can be found in my signature.

Cheers!

Jake