Got UTC as a gift but never used it much, looking at it more as a computer-aided design program for my model railroad. But two years ago, I sold off my model equipment just so my family could have a Christmas and got lucky when my brother gave me TRS2006 that very Christmas day.
I enjoyed the program and especially the content available from the DLS and 3rd-party sites. Then when the 2006 cut-off came last fall, I began looking at 2010 and decided I would like to try it out, again lucking out by getting it as a Christmas gift.
TS2010 has been a real love-hate relationship on my notebook. With its maxed out 256MB of video, Trainz has serious lagging issues, frame-rate drops and visual oddities (Speedtrees look like Legos until you are right on top of them). It wouldn't even run on my 128MB desktop.
However, I just replaced the desktop's onboard video with nVidia's GE Force 9500 1GB card, and with just a fresh install of 2010 with built-in content and running on a built-in route (CN Holly Subdivision), it ran like a dream. No hitches, trees that looked like trees even at great distances.
But I also ported over all of the custom content I had on my notebook, which also included everything I ported over from 2006. Much of this content, and I do mean MUCH, won't work in 2010 native mode, but works fine in compatibility mode (including a TON of stuff from third-party sites, most of whom have very little for any version past 2006).
So with a 1GB card, does anyone know if shifting to compatibility mode will negatively impact performance?
I enjoyed the program and especially the content available from the DLS and 3rd-party sites. Then when the 2006 cut-off came last fall, I began looking at 2010 and decided I would like to try it out, again lucking out by getting it as a Christmas gift.
TS2010 has been a real love-hate relationship on my notebook. With its maxed out 256MB of video, Trainz has serious lagging issues, frame-rate drops and visual oddities (Speedtrees look like Legos until you are right on top of them). It wouldn't even run on my 128MB desktop.
However, I just replaced the desktop's onboard video with nVidia's GE Force 9500 1GB card, and with just a fresh install of 2010 with built-in content and running on a built-in route (CN Holly Subdivision), it ran like a dream. No hitches, trees that looked like trees even at great distances.
But I also ported over all of the custom content I had on my notebook, which also included everything I ported over from 2006. Much of this content, and I do mean MUCH, won't work in 2010 native mode, but works fine in compatibility mode (including a TON of stuff from third-party sites, most of whom have very little for any version past 2006).
So with a 1GB card, does anyone know if shifting to compatibility mode will negatively impact performance?
