What hardware do you run TS on?

[Approach_Medium]

I would have created a poll for this, but since there are so many variables in system configuration, I think a regular post is the best.

So, what version of TS do you run, what OS, and what hardware do you run it on?

I run TS2010 SP3 in Open GL mode, on the following:

Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1 (RC) installed.

Asus P5AD2-E Premium mobo (6yrs old!!)
P4, 3.4Ghz (single core)
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB
3Gigs 533Mhz DDR2 RAM
HDD: 500GB SATA with 8MB cache at 7200 RPM
Display: Samsung SyncMaster 24" wide screen @ 1920 X 1080

I have to run TS at max draw distance of 3Km or frame rate drops to unacceptable rate in moderately complex scenes.

So, what are you running?

FW

 

[lewisner]

CoolerMaster HAF932 Case.
ASUS M4N82 Deluxe motherboard.
AMD 11 X4 635 CPU.
Palit Geforce GTX460 GPU 1GB.
OCZ Platinum 1066Mhz 4GB RAM.
WD Velociraptor 300GB System HDD
WD Caviar Black 1TB Storage HDD.
Coolermaster Modular 700 Watt PSU.
Samsung 22X DVD Writemaster.
Aerocool V12XT Fan Controller.
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit OS.

 

[RRSignal]

Dual-boot Win XP-32bit and Win XP-64bit
Dual-Core E6700 3.2 GHz
Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard
2x2Gb OCZ PC6400 DDR2
XFX 8400GS Card
Cooler Master Hyper N520 CPU Cooler
Cooler Master RS700 700W PSU
2x500Gb Seagate 7500.12 SATA-II
NEC-3550A (Liggy's 1.07 bitsetting FW)
LG DVD-RW (I forget the exact model)
Xion case

 

[SuperFudd]

For the short version, see below.

 

[Approach_Medium]

So far, I'm the low man on the totem pole. 6yrs I need an upgrade, but no $$ right now.

 

[clam1952]

Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 090T @ 3.2 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Extreme
Ram: 8GB DDR3 Crucial Ballistic 1600MHz
Graphics: Asus Nvidia GTS450 1GB DDR5
Audio: Onboard
Drives: Western Digital WD2500AAJS-00V4A0 250GB (2 partions), Maxtor 6V080EO 80GB, Maxtor 6V200EO 200GB.
PSU: 750 Watt Corsair
Optical Drives: Lite-on DVDRW
OS: Win7 Home Premium 64 bit.

 

[lewisner]

So far, I'm the low man on the totem pole. 6yrs I need an upgrade, but no $$ right now.

If you keep your eyes on Ebay (or the equivalent in your part of the world) you can often find reasonable bargains in Motherboard Bundles.
This one has a dual core CPU, a decent GPU and 4GB of RAM.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320639899777&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

[RRSignal]

So far, I'm the low man on the totem pole. 6yrs I need an upgrade, but no $$ right now.

Look at Tigerdirect's barebones kits. While I wouldn't actually go with most of their kits (the power supplies are too weak) they serve as a starting point and you can get a good system cheap. You can do pretty nicely for a little over $200 if you can scrape that up. Just something to think about.

 

[OverlordNZ]

Mine runs just fine on the following
(from TrainzDiag.exe in 'bin' folder

Not the newest 'latest and greatest machine'

------------
Test Results
------------
System: Windows XP Professional SP3
CPU Speed : Intel P4 Dual Core ~2.93 GHZ : Passed
CPU supports SSE instructions : Passed
System Memory : 3070 MB : Passed
Hard Drive Space: 61.64 GB Free : Passed
OpenGL : Version 3.2 : Passed
DirectX : Version 9.0c or later : Passed
Desktop Mode : 32 bit colors : Passed
Card Type : GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2 : Passed
Video Driver's Age : 12 months old : Passed
AGP Memory : 502MB Free : Passed
Total Video Mem : 512MB : Passed
Stencil Buffer : 8 Bits : Passed
Multi-Texturing : 8 Textures : Passed
Texture Compression DXT : Passed
Texture Combiners : Passed
Vertex Shaders : Version 3.0 : Passed
Pixel Shaders : Version 3.0 : Passed
Bump Mapping : Passed
Spherical Environment Mapping : Passed
Cubic Environment Mapping : Passed
Vertex Buffers : Passed
NVIDIA driver compatibility : Passed
Monitor: No compatability problems detected : Passed

-------------------------------
Extra Details Return from Tests
-------------------------------
System Memory : 3070 MB : System Memory : 3070MB (2461MB free)
Hard Drive Space: 61.64 GB Free : Drive C:\ : Total 127.99 GB Free 61.64 GB
Drive E:\ : Total 337.77 GB Free 250.68 GB
OpenGL : Version 3.2 : OpenGL : Version : 3.2.0
Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
Card : GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2
DirectX : Version 9.0c or later : Driver : nv4_disp.dll
Description : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Product : (PRODUCT) Version : 14 SubVersion : 11 Build : 9621
Driver not WHQL signed
Desktop Mode : 32 bit colors : Desktop Mode : 1600x900 with 32 bit colors
Video Driver's Age : 12 months old : Contact your card manufacturer at www.nvidia.com for the latest drivers.
Card's driver date is Tue Jan 12 17:03:33 2010
File Version :6.14.11.9621
File Description :NVIDIA Compatible Windows 2000 Display driver, Version 196.21
Product Version :6.14.11.9621
Total Video Mem : 512MB : Total Video Mem : 512MB
Stencil Buffer : 8 Bits : OpenGL stencil bits : 8
DirectX stencil bits : 8
Multi-Texturing : 8 Textures : OpenGL texture count : 32
DirectX texture count : 8
Vertex Shaders : Version 3.0 : OpenGL vertex shader : Version 3.0
DirectX vertex shader : Version 3.0
Pixel Shaders : Version 3.0 : OpenGL pixel shader : Version 3.0
DirectX pixel shader : Version 3.0

 

[djt]

Mine runs just fine on the following
(from TrainzDiag.exe in 'bin' folder

Not the newest 'latest and greatest machine'

That depends on what you consider fine.


You’re idea of "fine" performance/image quality might differ greatly from what someone who has experience with other sims/games might consider fine or even acceptable.




ASUS Rampage III Extreme (1102 BIOS)
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition w/Corsair H70
Corsair DOMINATOR-GT 6GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) CMT6GX3M3A1600C7
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 SuperClocked (266.35)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
WD VelociRaptor 150GB – Windows 7 Ultimate 64/SP1 RC
WD VelociRaptor 300GB – Games/Programs
Corsair AX1200
Corsair 800D w/NoiseBlocker fans

ASUS Rampage II Extreme (1914 BIOS)
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition w/Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RT
Mushkin Redline Ascent 6GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (6-7-6-18-1N)
Asus/ATI 5870 (Catalyst 10.12)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty
WD VelociRaptor 150GB Windows 7 Ultimate 64/SP1 RC
WD VelociRaptor 300GB Games/Programs
SILVERSTONE 1500Watt SST
SILVERSTONE TJ09-B

ASUS Rampage Extreme (BIOS 1201)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 w/Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme
Mushkin XP3-12800 Ascent 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600
EVGA GTX 285 “FTW” (260.19.29)
WD Caviar Black 640GB Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit
PC Power and Cooling 910Watt Silencer
LIAN LI PC-A70B

 

[BLACKWATCH]

Windows XP SP3 32 bit
Case - CoolerMaster
M/B - an MSI MS-7345
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz
L2 cache 3072 KBs (12 way)
2 Gig of DDR2 memory in Dual mode
Maxtor 500 GB SATA-II
Optiarc AD7200S SATA-II DVD RW
Maxtor Diamond Max 200 GB ext. usb drive for backing up

GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT 512 MB GDDR
Memory Clockspeed - 900 MHz
Bandwidth - 57.6 GB/s
Ramdac - 400 MHz
Bus - PCI-E 2.0
Video - HDMI

LG Flatron widescreen monitor

 

[Jacobchgo19]

What do i use well the computer is called a piece of **** thats what its called its really a compac with a good vid card and WXP(WINDOWSXP) so really thats about it.

The computer is SEVEN YEARS OLD well i need a new computer

 

[Approach_Medium]

If you keep your eyes on Ebay (or the equivalent in your part of the world) you can often find reasonable bargains in Motherboard Bundles.
This one has a dual core CPU, a decent GPU and 4GB of RAM.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320639899777&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

You've got a point here.
I think if I could upgrade my mobo, cpu, and memory, I could use my current GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB and get better performance.
My "Windows Experience Index" is only 3.7, and the lowest component is the CPU. If I replaced the mobo, cpu & RAM, I would get 5.9. If I could do all that for around $200, I think I would go for it. And, if I'm not upgrading video, I might be able to get away with keeping the 550W PSU.

It seems that most Trainzers are running dual core, and much faster RAM than I have. That seems to be where my bottleneck is.

FW

 

[djt]

It seems that most Trainzers are running dual core, and much faster RAM than I have. That seems to be where my bottleneck is.

FW

You’re main bottleneck is with the Pentium 4’s architecture when it comes to CPU dependent games like Trainz.

 

[titaniclover]

CPU: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33 Ghz(w/Cooler Master N-520 CPU cooler)
MOBO: ASUS Rampage III
RAM: 12 GB (3 - 4GB Corsair Dominator)
GPU: 2 - ATi Radeon HD5870
PSU: Corsair Professional Series 1200 watt
Optical: 2 - LG BluRay Burners
Sound: Logitech Z5500
HDD: 3 - WD Cavair Black 1.5 TB
SSD: 1 - Curcial 64GB (OS)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Case: Cooler Master HAF X
Monitor: 2 - 27in Samsung P2770 Full HDMI

Trainz running in Direct X mode.

Adam

 

[RRSignal]

What do i use well the computer is called a piece of **** thats what its called its really a compac with a good vid card and WXP(WINDOWSXP) so really thats about it.

The computer is SEVEN YEARS OLD well i need a new computer

XP runs well, better than Win7 or Vista according to some tests, probably due to less overhead. It's not like Trainz uses DX11...

But, yeah, Compaq's do suck performance-wise, but really all OEMs do IMO. They're durable, at least. I have some old ones from 1998 and older I use for DOS gaming and hardware tinkering.

 

[malikrthr]

I am running trainz 2006 and trainz classics. Mainly use trainz classics. Here are the specs.

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (SP2)
Intel Pentium Inside Dual CPU T3400
2.16 GHz
Intel 4 series express chipset family
130GB out of 218GB
1 TB external hard drive

Mainly use Direct X 10 to get the special water effects.

 

[djt]

Mainly use Direct X 10 to get the special water effects.

You must have that special edition of Trainz 2015, the one that has the rendering engine that uses DirectX 10 features, lol.

 

[djt]

XP runs well, better than Win7 or Vista according to some tests, probably due to less overhead. It's not like Trainz uses DX11...

Trainz runs better on Windows 98 or ME because it’s cheaper, lol.:hehe:

Make sure you use FAT 32 also.

 

[RRSignal]

Trainz runs better on Windows 98 or ME because it’s cheaper, lol.:hehe:

Make sure you use FAT 32 also.

It helps use the right tool for the job, rather than just buying the most expensive hardware Newegg has for bragging rights...or for some kind of compensation...:hehe: