[I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the technical forum - hope I got it right]
This is Muniman’s Mom :wave:. Muniman is my 11-year old son, a train fanatic since he was two years old. Nice to meet you all! We live west of Chicago – anyone else here live in Chicagoland?
We’ve been running TRS2006 and Trains Classics on our computer for a while now, but for convoluted reasons I’m going to uninstall them and install Trainz Railwayz. I thought I’d run this by you and see if there was anything any of you would do differently. The plan is:
-back up our current Trainz and TC to my external hard drive
-uninstall TRS2006 & TC
-run CCleaner
-restart the computer
-run CCleaner again (I want to make sure all traces of the originals are gone)
-restart computer again
-install Trainz Railwayz
-defrag if necessary
How’s that sound?
Once that’s done, we want to bring over a layout my son has created in ’06 (which will at this point be on the external hard drive) into the new install of TRS2006. How do I do that? Cut and paste the file? Paste it where specifically? He’s spent hours on this layout and it’s gorgeous – I would *hate* for him to lose it somehow or have it not work correctly. He told me he’s used only elements that are in ’06 (ie. not anything we downloaded) so theoretically it should work, but….? One problem he’s having with it is nasty lagging – could that be because he put too much detail in, or is there something we can look at specifically to see why it might be lagging so terribly?
Also, I wanted to run our computer specs by you and see if anything stands out as not being the greatest for TRS2006 and TC. We have:
- Dell Dimension 5100
- Windows XP SP2
- Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz - 1 GB of RAM
- Radeon X300/X550 Series graphics card (with latest updates)
- 144 GB hard disk space with 94 GB free
I’m thinking of adding RAM and was wondering if any of you have good/bad opinions of this? –
http://tinyurl.com/28gd5j
So, to summarize, my questions are:
-would you uninstall/install any differently?
-how do we bring over an existing TRS2006 layout into a fresh install of TRS2006?
-what can we do about nasty lagging?
-would more RAM be advisable? What do you think of the RAM I’m thinking of buying?
THANK YOU so much for any and all help you can give!! We both appreciate it!
This is Muniman’s Mom :wave:. Muniman is my 11-year old son, a train fanatic since he was two years old. Nice to meet you all! We live west of Chicago – anyone else here live in Chicagoland?
We’ve been running TRS2006 and Trains Classics on our computer for a while now, but for convoluted reasons I’m going to uninstall them and install Trainz Railwayz. I thought I’d run this by you and see if there was anything any of you would do differently. The plan is:
-back up our current Trainz and TC to my external hard drive
-uninstall TRS2006 & TC
-run CCleaner
-restart the computer
-run CCleaner again (I want to make sure all traces of the originals are gone)
-restart computer again
-install Trainz Railwayz
-defrag if necessary
How’s that sound?
Once that’s done, we want to bring over a layout my son has created in ’06 (which will at this point be on the external hard drive) into the new install of TRS2006. How do I do that? Cut and paste the file? Paste it where specifically? He’s spent hours on this layout and it’s gorgeous – I would *hate* for him to lose it somehow or have it not work correctly. He told me he’s used only elements that are in ’06 (ie. not anything we downloaded) so theoretically it should work, but….? One problem he’s having with it is nasty lagging – could that be because he put too much detail in, or is there something we can look at specifically to see why it might be lagging so terribly?
Also, I wanted to run our computer specs by you and see if anything stands out as not being the greatest for TRS2006 and TC. We have:
- Dell Dimension 5100
- Windows XP SP2
- Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz - 1 GB of RAM
- Radeon X300/X550 Series graphics card (with latest updates)
- 144 GB hard disk space with 94 GB free
I’m thinking of adding RAM and was wondering if any of you have good/bad opinions of this? –
http://tinyurl.com/28gd5j
So, to summarize, my questions are:
-would you uninstall/install any differently?
-how do we bring over an existing TRS2006 layout into a fresh install of TRS2006?
-what can we do about nasty lagging?
-would more RAM be advisable? What do you think of the RAM I’m thinking of buying?
THANK YOU so much for any and all help you can give!! We both appreciate it!