MSI P7N Platinum SLI & Trainz 2009 MSR's

[poppins122325]

hi all thinking of getting an new motherboard and ram namely the MSI P7N Platinum SLI and 4gb ram does anyone have this board? how does it go? any problems installing?.....ect thanks.

also would my specs run trainz 2009?

Current Specs:
3 x Wd 160 Gb Hdd's
2gb ram
Gainward 9600gso 768mb graphics
intel core 2 duo 2.22gzh
3 dvd burners
asus p5kpl-vm motherboard

 

[fran1]

upgraded recently from an asus to the P7N sli. with the board change the computer would not find my windows system. I had to format c drive and re-install. luckily i use 2 hard drives, 1 for system/utility drivers and 1 for games etc so all was not lost.
On saying that I had to use disc management to to go into my other hard drive to get trainz to work ie: put a shortcut on the desktop.
Back everything up first.
the RAM needs to be DDR2 to be compatible with the board.

 

[poppins122325]

thanks for the heads up yeah i have a hdd setup like yours with 1 for system and one for games but trainz is installed on my system driveso ill have to either back up and reinstall on the other hdd or backup reformat and install but it will give me something to do

 

[fran1]

if your like me the card will only go in the bottom slot(it's big) don't bother with the JFP2 motherboard leads. they foul on the card, it won't seat properly.
By bottom slot i mean the lower PCI express slot.
the board is socket 775 is your cpu?
I've 2 dvd drives, had to move them to the lower 2 of the 3 bays because my IDE cable was not long enough, even then the cable had to go under the 280 to reach its slot. If there is one get an extra length cable before you start then it can go over the 280. Otherwise fit the dvd cable before you put the card in.

Hopefully that's any problems you are going to have.

 

[jeffmorris]

I had a new computer custom-built by Puget Computer System and I got it on Wednesday. Today, I ran TS2009 on both computers with my NYCTA2006 map and content.

New Computer:
Intel I7 Quad Core 920 2.66GHZ CPU
Asus P7T Deluxe motherboard
Three 1GB DDR3-1333 memory modules
Two Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB HDDs
XFX GeForce 9800GT video card with 512MB DDR3 video memory
Windows XP Pro with SP3
Averaged 345.181574fps over 774.737183sec

Old computer:
Intel 3.2GHZ P4 with HT
Intel D875PBZ motherboard
Three 1GB DDR2 memory modules
Two Western Digital Raptor 150GB HDDs
GeForce 7800GS video card with 256MB DDR2 video memory
Windows XP Home with SP3
Averaged 96.374358fps over 762.900024sec

 

[fran1]

did you mean 345 fps? or 34.5fps.

 

[jeffmorris]

345 fps on new computer and 96 fps on old computer. On both computers, both TS2009 and Windows screen graphics mode is 1280 X 1024 in 32-bit color, TS2009 in OpenGL mode, and V-Sync disabled in NVIDIA control panel.

 

[poppins122325]

so if it plays on your old computer decently then it would run on mine then ok cool tell me what do you use to test the graphics?

 

[fran1]

FRAPS, frames per second. there's a recent post with a link to a site where you can download it. check my posts to you, I added a few comments to save you some time when you fit mobo etc.

 

[whitepass]

Yes get and use Fraps the FPS shown in the log.txt is useless as it is an average that includes FPS while you are at a menu, on my computer Fraps goes to over 3,000 FPS on a menu.