Trainz and Windows 10

Will TS12 and T:ANE run okay with Windows 10? I found a good computer that I may get and it needs to be able to run Trainz. I first would get TS12 but since I am hoping to run T:ANE on it at some point, I would like to know if Windows 10 will allow me to run Trainz.
 
I run TANE on win10 Just fine. Actually see *Slightly* better performance on 10 then I did with 8.1. (A few FR on average).

-Falcus
 
I don't even think this machine will handle TS12. My sister has one and it was slower than molasses on a cold day long before she mucked it up with malware! When she got it, I had the honors of prepping it and setting it up, and it was awfully slow.

You are better off looking elsewhere.

John
 
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I forgot to ask this previously, but is this computer good as well? http://www.staples.com/HP-15-ac163n...ilver/product_1716535#/#specificationsContent It slipped my mind when I was posting originally.

I made a mistake and purchased a second hand HP Pavillion 6g and put some more ram on it. After I loaded TRS 2009 and discovered I was running through countryside with no track, I decided to investigate if I could upgrade the video card. The card is the same as the one you propose to purchase, onboard Intel graphics. Other than wasting a lot of money, this can't be upgraded. So the laptop has been reset to factory default and I am looking to get my money back after obtaining a new tower.

You are being given good advice here in this thread.
 
Eh, I've always advised people away from Laptops wherever possible unless you really need the mobility. If you're a Jet Setter, or a Train Engineer, or someone that does ALOT of travel fine. But the number of people that get Laptops that don't really need them amazes me.....

I just helped build the wife a new comp. MSI Z-170 PC Mate (Lowest 1151 Pin Board they make) with an Intel I7-6700K (First I7 that might actually be more powerful then the vaunted 4790K), and all the hardware needed to run it including new case. Spent just under $1K on it. No GPU yet, but its run everything we've thrown at it just on Integrated. I wouldn't try to run something like TI's Donner Pass, and I haven't tested this (Its her comp), but I think it would run Kickstarter County just fine for instance. I7 Quad Processor's with a decent MoBo IMHO are nothing to sneeze at. I ran TS12 No GPU on an I5-3330 until a couple months before TANE release just fine.

-Falcus
 
Eh, I've always advised people away from Laptops wherever possible unless you really need the mobility. If you're a Jet Setter, or a Train Engineer, or someone that does ALOT of travel fine. But the number of people that get Laptops that don't really need them amazes me.....

I just helped build the wife a new comp. MSI Z-170 PC Mate (Lowest 1151 Pin Board they make) with an Intel I7-6700K (First I7 that might actually be more powerful then the vaunted 4790K), and all the hardware needed to run it including new case. Spent just under $1K on it. No GPU yet, but its run everything we've thrown at it just on Integrated. I wouldn't try to run something like TI's Donner Pass, and I haven't tested this (Its her comp), but I think it would run Kickstarter County just fine for instance. I7 Quad Processor's with a decent MoBo IMHO are nothing to sneeze at. I ran TS12 No GPU on an I5-3330 until a couple months before TANE release just fine.

-Falcus

When I was in dire need of replacing my motherboard back in September, I tried in vain to get one of those processors! They were completely out of stock in the US, and whatever were available were being scalped at 4x the retail price!

If I were just upgrading, I would have waited until the processor was available, but my desktop had problems which were causing stability issues and needed replacement. So in the end, I ended up with a slightly older 5800-series Haswell i7, 64GB of RAM and was able to keep my hard drives and video card.

John
 
I'm on a Toshiba laptop. Bottom of the barrel AMD CPU with an integrated GPU, it's all pretty low-budget. The whole thing runs Windows 10, and TS12 performs acceptably. It hiccups here and there, but it's nothing terrible.

Matt
 
I bought a custom built tower with AMD 8-core processor, NVidia GT750 Ti video card and 16GB ram all told just over £850. Installed Win 7 Home Edition 64bit. Trainz had a higher FR than my 32bit machine, about 20. Decided to upgrade to Win 10. Everything that I was running in Win 7 worked in Win 10 including Trainz of course. The most amzing thing was ZipMagic 1.0 which I bought for my Win 95 384 m/c in 1998! If that can run in W10 64bit then most other programs have a chance. I unistalled W10 after a fortnight because I lost, to me, a lot of functionality on the Windows side that I now have back.
 
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