What is a reasonable fps rate?

[Malcolm67f]

Running t2010 on a macpowerbook using bootcamp, i can get 30 fps with routes such as murchison 2. How much better is it possible to get using standard PC with a top end graphics card? I am not interested so much in the how to do it- i can find out easily enough- i am just interested in what is a reasonable fps to aixm for. How much difference would it make to my enjoyment of the game?
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Malcolm

 

[mrscsi]

I can get 60 to 200 on most of the built-in routes including Avery Drexel, I did however throttle my card down to 44 frames per second in the trainzoptions.txt file.

30 frames per second is going to be smooth...

 

[johnwhelan]

Your video card is probably 60 or possibly 120 mhz so I have to think a little now.

At 60 mhz it means it refreshes 60 times a second so basically either 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second or a fraction or multiple of 60 makes sense.

The film industry uses 24 frames per second for film which doesn't fit nicely on 60 mhz. It does fit nicely as a fraction of 120 mhz though so one of those monitors should allow you to drop to 24 frames per second and still see every thing moving smoothly.

Be aware there is great religious debate about the optimum refresh rate with people trying to justify spending fairly large sums of money to get another frame per second.

Cheerio John

 

[fran1]

Mid 20's -30 gives you seemless screen play.

 

[Malcolm67f]

Still jerky though

When i run murchison 2 with the fixed camera, every scene change there is a wait of a few secnds while the scenery is redrawn, and fps drops to 10-20. It slowly picks up to the mid 30's but the animation is still jerky at times. Is my love of steam engines partly to blame?
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Malcolm

 

[johnwhelan]

When i run murchison 2 with the fixed camera, every scene change there is a wait of a few secnds while the scenery is redrawn, and fps drops to 10-20. It slowly picks up to the mid 30's but the animation is still jerky at times. Is my love of steam engines partly to blame?
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Malcolm

Steam engines don't help, but on a scenery change my guess it's pulling things in from disk and how much memory you have that matters more. Also you need to process the data. In PC terms a Raptor might help on the disk side how much memory do you have available?

Do I assume that a macpowerbook is some sort of laptop? If so its optimised for saving power ie battery life not for Trainz, a conventional dual core desktop with 4-6 gigs of memory running Win 7 64 bit would be better.

Cheerio John