trainz graphic issue

[phil_schwartz]

My frame rate seems to be choppy. I have reduced all the settings to low and the chop still occurs. It seems as if there is a periodic lag of some type. I know that my comp can handle the game so it must have something to do with one of my graphic settings. If anyone can offer some advice it would be greatly appriciated.

 

[Lo_Poly]

You're saying that the lagging in Trainz is constant, right?

First off, make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your components, especially your video card; what video card do you have anyway? You can also check the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del on XP and previous, Ctrl+Shift+Esc on Vista and 7) to see if another process is excessively pillaging your CPU power and/or memory.

HTH.

 

[phil_schwartz]

My drivers are up to date. I am hoping that the service pack may help but now the updater is asking for the install directory and i select trainz...but it wont update.

 

[johnwhelan]

How much main memory do you have? what sort of hard drive(s) and how full is it(they)?

Thanks John

 

[Lo_Poly]

My drivers are up to date. I am hoping that the service pack may help but now the updater is asking for the install directory and i select trainz...but it wont update.

Are you sure you're selecting the right directory (it would be C:\Program Files\Auran\TRS2009\, or C:\Program Files (x86)\Auran\TRS2009\ on a 64bit version of Windows)? What error does it give you? Or does it just take (literally) forever to update?

-Chris

 

[geoffwilliams]

Phil
I experienced this problem on my laptop after Vista installed the last service pack. Computer only has 128MB graphics card but it ran perfectly before the service pack. Tried shutting down all sorts of services etc but could not get back to what it was. Now, on this machine, I run Trainz from Linux with no problem.
Geoff

 

[phil_schwartz]

it tells me "
Unable to determine Trainz installation path. Requesting user to specify installation location."



I select C/programfiles/auran/ts2009

it says "
This patch file is not applicable to your current installation version.
(Build hash: 0fa7afa5ba80f8f6b13df2b6547e3ce2)"

could it mean that i am already up to date?

 

[kimo]

Now, on this machine, I run Trainz from Linux with no problem.

Which Linux distribution and release are you using? Is this with the open source Wine, or one of the commercial derivatives (TransGaming or CrossOver)? I've tried running Trainz under Linux and Wine several times and had a variety of problems.

 

[SuperFudd]

Which Trainz do you have?