Will finally have to get a new version...

[racingtrains]

I guess I'm going to have to break down and get one of the newer version. I've been running 2004 with Win7 on my laptop for the past two years. I'm guessing the new Windows updates just aren't compatible anymore.

My question is, will any of the old content or maps work with the newer versions?

 

[TrainzAreTheBest12]

Yes, it will. A lot of it will actually. Try to get TS2009. Sounds like it might work well.

 

[HLJames]

You'd probably be looking for Trainz 2010, which still has compatibility mode with older content.

 

[racingtrains]

Thanks that great news...

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[sniper297]

If you're gonna get something new, get TS2010 and avoid TS2009 like it has rabies.

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?81860-Well-that-was-a-bust

TS2009 SP4 doesn't perform any better on older hardware than 2010, in fact service pack 4 should be labeled as having the exact same minimum specs as 2010 and 12. Anything before TS2009 SP4 is so full of bugs the better framerates are meaningless. Truth in advertising, TS2009 up to SP3 should be labeled an alpha test, TS2009 SP4 should be labeled TS2010 beta.

 

[racingtrains]

These are the laptop specs.

Win7 I7 CPU 1.73GHz
GeForce 310m graphics card (driver 295.73)
4GB memory
Open GL setting (how do I check the frame rate?)

The reason I thought I would need to change version is because alot of times it will take a while to cache when i try to move the camera view. It seems to happen more and longer if I'm in a yard area where there is alot of track.

Lately it just crashes with a black screen.

I'm using a game booster even.

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[shaneturner12]

I have concerns that the processor may not be fast enough to handle TS2010, unless it's a dual core, and even then it's slow.

Not sure on the graphics card though.

Shane

 

[Robert2d6]

I have never seen an integrated graphics card that could run a current game properly.

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[sniper297]

"unless it's a dual core", to the best of my knowledge everything after the Pentium 4 is multiple cores. And the i7 is the latest bleeding edge, a 1.7ghz i7 should beat the pants off a Pentium D 3.4ghz, clock frequency comparison between different generation chips is meaningless since the newer ones have faster bus speeds / more pipelines / bigger caches / etc. Dunno about the integrated graphics, quick search for the GeForce 310m indicates it has dedicated VRAM instead of sharing system RAM. Understood that given equivalent hardware a desktop will beat a laptop, but even a cheap celeron laptop would run DOOM better than an 80286 desktop.