T:ANE - not buying it

First time I've posted on this thread since the first page! I didn't expect it to become so busy TBH.
Anyway, I have a question. Can my computer actually run T:ANE, with shadows turned on, reasonably well?
It's a standard Acer tower with nVidia graphics, around mid-range spec, or at least it was in 2009 when I bought it. It runs TS2010 fine, max 40-50fps, reduced to 10-15fps if it's a busy, detailed area on a route, but it's never gone below 10. It seems to have a problem with TS12 for some reason, but runs TS2015 just fine as long I turn the shadows off! I wouldn't have thought T:ANE would be so demanding as TS2015, and some users are reporting it runs better than TS12 on their machines, including T. Hilliam himself. Is it worth buying next time it comes on sale?
Upgrading my PC is not really an option ATM, I'm a student so don't have much of a disposable income.
 
Nathan, you might have missed this and the thread has since been deleted, but about a month or two ago Chris Bergmann published a test in which his Nvidia GTX980 achieved 7 frames per second on the built-in Hinton at...wait for it...1024x768. So the answer to your question is probably no.
 
TS2015 runs well with shadows on and all the specs up to their highest for me. In T:ANE, the moment a steamer emits smoke, the framerates drop incredibly.

As for whether you should buy it or not,, my opinion would be no...unless you have a very high-grade PC, which i thought i did, but it turns out my GPU (a Radeon R7 240) is pretty cruddy.

Seems like you're in the same boat as me performance-wise, but who knows. Maybe someone else can give you their insight. I think it would run as slow as mine, but i'm not sure (i'm not as tech-savvy as, say, Shane Turner).
 
I'm sorry, but it sounds like there is something really wrong with this game. If you can run TS2015 perfectly with shadows and T:ANE causes lag, that is definitely a serious issue. As others have pointed out, the graphics aren't even good enough to warrant such poor performance! Most TS2015 routes (and for that matter, most decent TRS2010 routes) look far, far better than that Kickstarter County thing N3V love showing off, so really I'm confused to why performance is as bad as people are reporting.
I wouldn't consider a Radeon R7 cruddy, I really don't know what's going on with T:ANE, I hoped it would be the most stable, best running, best looking version of Trainz yet but it's more like they've taken all the worst bits from previous versions of Trainz (I.e. compulsory database repairs, lag caused by particle emissions, issues with route saving), turned them up to 11 and then put fancy shadows on it which only people with £5000 gaming desktops can actually use!
 
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cascaderailroad said:
Objection: Hearsay ... You don't even own the game

I'm really done with this thread now ... Maybe you should buy it ... then you would have a real live expert opinion.

If you don't buy it ... You will never know !

From what I hear there are Polar bears in Antarctica ... or so someone told me so
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cascaderailroad said:
I still have it in the sealed shipping package ... why should I open it if I know I need a new PC to run it ?
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So what have you based your "real live expert opinion" on if you haven't even run it unlike the rest of us? Hypocrite.
 
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Wait, you haven't even PLAYED it???

You sir are in no position to tell us to love T:ANE when you haven't even played said game. Maybe you should play the game first, then tell us to love it.

Practice what you preach, Cascade, practice what you preach.
 
You may own the game, but if you haven't played it you have no more of a solid view of how the game actually performs and runs than someone who hasn't bought it at all.

Since you've backed yourself into a hole I assume that you want the thread closed because you want to cover your tracks...

EDIT: Also, it's not your thread to close bud...
 
chris2001trainz2010 said:
Wait, you haven't even PLAYED it???

You sir are in no position to tell us to love T:ANE when you haven't even played said game. Maybe you should play the game first, then tell us to love it.

Practice what you preach, Cascade, practice what you preach.
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Just because he does not have TANE does not mean he has no right to support it, look at all of us when TANE was first announce.... No one owned it.... Now TANE is release but I had to wait awhile for the Mac version to come out so I continued to support TANE even thought I did not have it yet until much later.... If he likes TANE but does not own it yet, whats wrong with supporting it??? Tell me that?
 
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Because, as many keep claiming, you can't criticize T:ANE unless you have it installed. Therefor, you can't support it if you don't have it installed. People...

Cheers,
SM
 
Matt3985 said:
Just because he does not have TANE does not mean he has no right to support it, look at all of us when TANE was first announce.... No one owned it.... Now TANE is release but I had to wait awhile for the Mac version to come out so I continued to support TANE even thought I did not have it yet until much later.... If he likes TANE but does not own it yet, whats wrong with supporting it??? Tell me that?
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He owns it, just hasn't played it... Have you been reading along at all?

He's been saying that you can't judge it if you don't have it, yet he hasn't even played it or registered it yet. That's the definition of hypocrisy. If you guys can't hold a debate without your argument crumbling underneath your feet then it's more of a fact v.s. opinion kind of thing...
 
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