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That's So Trainz Forum
I don't have any money to upgrade. That's it. I'm going to have to cut back on Trainz. It's getting too much to run it.
My computer can't handle the new sims anyway. My friend came over with his copy of TS2010 and I tried it out, HORRIBLE. I had 5.0FPS at best. It turns out I can only party run TRS2006 because it doesn't take as many resources.
You also know it's bad when TrainzDiag tells you your Video Drivers are 39 months out of date with no possible updates available. My video card is the outdated (and unsupported) Intel GMA Chipset 938 Integrated graphics card. Just like the laptop ones. My RAM is limited to 533MHz even though it's 1800MHz because my motherboard is that slow. Also, 2GB is my maximum allowed RAM. 2x 4GB RAMs will mean my motherboard will be toast. BTW, don't worry about me getting an actual Graphics Card, HP make sure to screw me with a straight PCI-Express x16 slot... not a 2.0 or 2.1. Meaning any graphic card I get will have to be a small one. With at most 1/2GB of RAM. (I might do that to help anyway.)
My processor isn't too bad, but is still a little behind with today's standards, since it is an Intel Pentium D dual-core processor @ 2.9GHz. My HDD drive is only 224GB in size and so that was clogged. So I bought a 1TB External HDD drive from Western Digital. That cleared up a nice a free 25GB of open space on my internal drive.
On TRS2006, my Trainz (at best) gets 10fps. I can run about 2 JR locomotives on a very un-detailed (and probably UTC era) route. However, since 3D model rendering is the problem, I have no problems handling huge hi-resolution textures.
Why post this? Well... here's the problem. I am a content creator. I have my own content. That's not a problem, but Trainz is getting buggy on me. REALLY freaking buggy. Today I was starting a new route, for example, and it ended with a Fatal Error. It started to stop showing Spline points... Then track points. Soon, I was just using what I thought would be the spline point. Then, it just froze, and on came the Fatal Error message. It's not just Trainz, it's also CMP.
Here are cases my CMP will crash/stop responding:
- Clicking fastly on it.
- Packing more that 45MB in a CDP
- Clicking too many filters at once.
- Minimizing it.
- Starting CCP for longer than 20 minutes.
- Making a new asset and waiting to open CCP for longer than 2 minutes.
- Importing a large CDP.
With it being buggy, I have it's original DVD disc, and I'm looking at re-install. The only problem is... well... here we go again. I'm a content creator. I have so much of my own work... I CANT download some of the stuff I have again. CMP doesn't want to co-operate. I have most of my stuff packed in small CDPs, so I'm fine for now. I might try a reinstall. I think my uninstaller got deleted though. :hehe: Good thing I have a force-uninstaller program lying around.
Don't worry about me, the point of this thread was to explain how I MIGHT just not be actually working with Trainz too much soon. So this isn't me trying to get your feelings soft for me, because guys, If I'm honest, I can fall back onto MSTS. Plus, I might copy CMP over and see if I can isolate it so I can make content and have someone else see if it works.
So, I'll still be around (of course!), but I might be away from creating for awhile.
(Do not suggest for me to buy a new computer or build one... I have no money.)
Cheers,
Joshua
My computer can't handle the new sims anyway. My friend came over with his copy of TS2010 and I tried it out, HORRIBLE. I had 5.0FPS at best. It turns out I can only party run TRS2006 because it doesn't take as many resources.
You also know it's bad when TrainzDiag tells you your Video Drivers are 39 months out of date with no possible updates available. My video card is the outdated (and unsupported) Intel GMA Chipset 938 Integrated graphics card. Just like the laptop ones. My RAM is limited to 533MHz even though it's 1800MHz because my motherboard is that slow. Also, 2GB is my maximum allowed RAM. 2x 4GB RAMs will mean my motherboard will be toast. BTW, don't worry about me getting an actual Graphics Card, HP make sure to screw me with a straight PCI-Express x16 slot... not a 2.0 or 2.1. Meaning any graphic card I get will have to be a small one. With at most 1/2GB of RAM. (I might do that to help anyway.)
My processor isn't too bad, but is still a little behind with today's standards, since it is an Intel Pentium D dual-core processor @ 2.9GHz. My HDD drive is only 224GB in size and so that was clogged. So I bought a 1TB External HDD drive from Western Digital. That cleared up a nice a free 25GB of open space on my internal drive.
On TRS2006, my Trainz (at best) gets 10fps. I can run about 2 JR locomotives on a very un-detailed (and probably UTC era) route. However, since 3D model rendering is the problem, I have no problems handling huge hi-resolution textures.
Why post this? Well... here's the problem. I am a content creator. I have my own content. That's not a problem, but Trainz is getting buggy on me. REALLY freaking buggy. Today I was starting a new route, for example, and it ended with a Fatal Error. It started to stop showing Spline points... Then track points. Soon, I was just using what I thought would be the spline point. Then, it just froze, and on came the Fatal Error message. It's not just Trainz, it's also CMP.
Here are cases my CMP will crash/stop responding:
- Clicking fastly on it.
- Packing more that 45MB in a CDP
- Clicking too many filters at once.
- Minimizing it.
- Starting CCP for longer than 20 minutes.
- Making a new asset and waiting to open CCP for longer than 2 minutes.
- Importing a large CDP.
With it being buggy, I have it's original DVD disc, and I'm looking at re-install. The only problem is... well... here we go again. I'm a content creator. I have so much of my own work... I CANT download some of the stuff I have again. CMP doesn't want to co-operate. I have most of my stuff packed in small CDPs, so I'm fine for now. I might try a reinstall. I think my uninstaller got deleted though. :hehe: Good thing I have a force-uninstaller program lying around.
Don't worry about me, the point of this thread was to explain how I MIGHT just not be actually working with Trainz too much soon. So this isn't me trying to get your feelings soft for me, because guys, If I'm honest, I can fall back onto MSTS. Plus, I might copy CMP over and see if I can isolate it so I can make content and have someone else see if it works.
So, I'll still be around (of course!), but I might be away from creating for awhile.
(Do not suggest for me to buy a new computer or build one... I have no money.)
Cheers,
Joshua