Trainz should NOT lag on my PC.

[djt]

The issue was about 6 or 7 years ago, and being burned at the time meant losing some hard to earn cash. The issue was enough to cause BSODs and lock-ups with the program.

Today they seemed to have fixed the issue so I went back to ATI, but I'm no longer in that side of the business anymore either, so it doesn't matter.

John

Actually John I had OpenGL problems with my ATI 5870 just a few months ago with one of the Catalyst driver revisions. As I said before OpenGL support in AMD/ATI's drivers has been hit or miss like a lot of other things with AMD lately.

We won't even get into the transparency texture shimmer problem that plagues ATI and games that use older game engines.

 

[spike5]

I have all the games you mentioned except company of heroes. On topic: you may want to experiment with directx/opengl and different graphics settings.

 

[peghorse]

Respectfully if I may...
My baby i5 760 is easily +one year old now. 64bit with only 6 gb of ram.
Currently running an ATI Radeon 5750 1gb card.
I replicated this system some 8 months ago for a friend and it cost 1400 AUD with 21" monitor and surround sound system at close to wholesale prices.
What I am saying is 1000 AUD is not a lot of money to be spending on a Trains rig.
You have the power of 64 bit, maxxxxx that ram out!
And capable vid cards are cheap as chips these days. Mine was 140 AUD.

 

[x002x]

Trainz lags to an extent on everyones pc. Why, because n3v/auran's game engine wasn't updated since 09. Look at Crysis 2 with the crytek 3 engine. The WHOLE map is speedtrees and it runs smooth as glass.

Yea, they need to fix their engine, pronto