Playing TRS2019 on Ultra everything

[ThomasFanForever1856]

I'm planning to splash out on a whole new PC to run TRS2019 at the highest settings possible, and these are my plans for the build:
Geforce GTX 2070
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
16gb RAM
SDD 480gb
HDD 2000gb

Does someone perhaps have a tip for me how I can improve it? Like, do I need to change the graphics card etc?

 

[PC_Ace]

The 2070 is an RTX (Ray Tracing capable) card so its designation is RTX 2070.
It is roughly a little more powerful than a GTX 1080 and less than a GTX 1080Ti.
All will run TRS2019 at decent frame rates with very high visual quality settings and extended draw distances.
The Ryzen 7 2700x is a great CPU, but slower than an i7 8700k in gaming tasks, though superb for multitasking work with its 8 cores and 16 threads.
Fast DDR4 RAM and a PCIe NVMe SSD would be highly desirable for all of the above..

 

[ThomasFanForever1856]

Okay, thanks for these suggestions. The thing with the CPU though is that it's fairly cheaper than the i7 and it's motherboard. I watched comparison videos and most of the time R7 scores the same, if not a bit better. I don't know if this is the case with Trainz though.

 

[pware]

Will the RTX20x0 series of GPUs be of any real advantage over the GTX10x0 series for gaming that does not use ray tracing? I can see their potential when/if ray tracing becomes more common but until then?

 

[clam1952]

My second PC is a Ryzen5 1600 6 cores 12 Threads first generation Ryzen and it works very well with a GTX980TI with TANE and TRS19, shouldn't have any problem with a Ryzen 7

 

[Kilrbe3]

Will the RTX20x0 series of GPUs be of any real advantage over the GTX10x0 series for gaming that does not use ray tracing? I can see their potential when/if ray tracing becomes more common but until then?

Yes.

NV's own marketing here failed them, due to the exact question you asked.

Its still a new card, its just got a added core/feature of being RTX ready. It's still a very solid upgrade over the 1000 series. NOT HUGE and spend cash right away, but its a upgrade. More so the 2070.

So yes, raw performance will still be better. Plus you also got RTX on standby. (FYI. RTX is brand new, NV knows this. The tech is decades old, but we got it now on consumer cards and not Quadro cards. HUGE STEP!!! BUT!! Needs a few revisions and year or two for them to make it worthwhile. Every RTX title out there kills FPS even with a RTX 2080 Ti.

 

[pware]

The December edition of one of the shrinking crop of monthly computer magazines here carries a review of the RTX20x0 cards from various makers. While they mostly get high marks the overall conclusion was that if you already have a GTX10x0 unit then switching to an RTX card would be more of a "side grade" than an upgrade. To quote "While a lot of the forward looking features are very impressive, their real world performance is still largely unknown. The previous generation GTX1000 series cards still offer tremendous gaming performance".