Hi Pdkoester ,
I use 2009
First everything is depending of your hardware - PC - grafic card .....................
My experience :
Go to startscreen >>>>>>>>>options>>>>Tab : Advanced Options : shadow shut of.
Display settings : try switching between "Open GL >>>Direct X "
Go to Surveyor Main Menu (upper left corner) Klick.
Edit environment Tab "sun" choose "No Clouds 01"
Options Draw distance : Aprox. 3500 m.
Good wheater fog : 0.2 or higher
Use a track that is less heavy : Track wood ?
don't use a lot of spline objects . In your second video there were also a lot of loco's and they use lot's of Mb's
when playing switch of your virus scanner
Thanks for these tips. I will try some adjustments, hope they do not take away too much detail. I'm using TS12.
UPDATE:::
I do not see the environment tab "sun" or a way to choose "No Clouds 01"? Anyone know?
The first video of the train crossing a trestle was just fine. The second one, of the long freight was pretty 'heavy' on content; as Leksie implies. If your Trainz 'stutter' in the game, that will be picked up on the video (I know; that's a 'Duh!!) In the third video, of the truck waiting at a crossing gate with a fast freight passing; it seems the video itself was stuttering, as if the frame rate was slowed. The codec you initially used to capture the clip may be at fault there.
No, it doesn't stutter in the game, it seems more like if it does, the recording to video seems to make it look worse. Yeah, there was one video I recorded, it was horrible, but not when the recorder was not enabled. This "codec", what do you recommend I use, and how do I check/change it?
I'd cut back on the grass splines or at least find a good substitution. Some of the splines can wreak havoc with the frame rates because of the way they're loaded.
There are some things to check too:
1) What are your machine temps like?
I found that I get some stutters not unlike yours when my machine gets a bit warm. I increase my fan speed on my video card and things run better.
2) If this is a regular drive, when was the last time you defragged.
3) I have found when writing video to disk I have better results if I write to a drive other than the one that Trainz is running on. The reading and writing at the same time does not help the performance with either the video or Trainz.
John
1) My machine temps are fine, CPU around 40s DEG C, GPU around 50s DEG C. CPU is Core i7 975 Extreme @3.75 Ghz, 24GB of DDR3 Tri channel RAM, two Corsair Force 3 SSDs in RAID0 for operating system, two WD Raptors in RAID0 for programs (Trainz), GTX 580 with 3GB of GDDR5 of video RAM.
2) The drives are optimized daily sometimes hourly depending on idle time. I have a program that is automated to do this.
3) I write the video to disk on a separate machine, my home server 2011 machine to be specific.
Thanks to everyone for feedback, I will see what I can do to tweak it, any more input about "codecs" would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
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