I just got a new PC. It was not cheap, but it was worth it. If you have never seen Trainz running with everything set to the max, you have no idea how great it can be. I was just blown away. Just a step below the max, everything looks good. But go to max on everything and it will blow you away!
I like to make mountainous scenes. So, there is always snow on the route somewhere. But the PBR snow, in max settings, looks so real....ripples and everything in it. Fantastic looking. (I may have to do a route completely in snow!)
Now, I have to make this comment: doing the scenery w/o everything set to max is OK until you go to max settings. Then, you need to redo a bunch of things especially around track where you didn't use PBR items like gravel, ballast, etc. My suggestion is that even though you cannot run Trainz at the max, at least max out everything when you are building a route so that if and when you get a machine that will handle it, you can see the scenery the way it should look.
I have enjoyed Trainz for a few years, but it is so different now!
Ryzen 9 7900, RTX 3080, 32G of 4600 RAM.
I like to make mountainous scenes. So, there is always snow on the route somewhere. But the PBR snow, in max settings, looks so real....ripples and everything in it. Fantastic looking. (I may have to do a route completely in snow!)
Now, I have to make this comment: doing the scenery w/o everything set to max is OK until you go to max settings. Then, you need to redo a bunch of things especially around track where you didn't use PBR items like gravel, ballast, etc. My suggestion is that even though you cannot run Trainz at the max, at least max out everything when you are building a route so that if and when you get a machine that will handle it, you can see the scenery the way it should look.
I have enjoyed Trainz for a few years, but it is so different now!
Ryzen 9 7900, RTX 3080, 32G of 4600 RAM.