Would appreciate some advice...

[johnnyferret]

Hi everyone,
I dabbled with Trainz 2004 for a while, which ran fine on my machine...I bought Trainz 2010: EE (I'd heard the Surveyor mode had been vastly improved) and It's completely unusable; lag etc. I have a AMD Phenom Quadcore CPU, 3 GB ram and an (outdated, I know) GeForce 8500GT GPU. I keep my drivers up to date regulary. Switched from OGL to DX made NO difference whatsoever...has my PC finally found itself in a wheelchair? If so what kind of set up could you recommend to run Trainz comfortably?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Euphod]

I use a GeForce 8800OC and it works rather well. Are you running at full sliders, or have you tried backing some off a bit?

 

[johnnyferret]

Blimey, thanks for the quick reply!

I dropped the sliders to the bottom settings...still got the same problem...I'm actually starting to wonder if theres a fault in my pc...

 

[Euphod]

It sounds like something else is happening here. I know Trainz will not use 4 cores, are you able to make an adjustment?

 

[johnnyferret]

Thats useful to know...I'm not sure how to adjust; but I'll give it a go...thanks for your help Euphod

 

[Euphod]

You're welcome. Hang in there, if you can't get something working right, we will help you until you do. Your specs seem to indicate that you should not be having so much trouble though...

 

[Mick_Berg]

You should be able to run TRS2010 fine with those computer specs. It is actually more efficient than earlier versions. My computer has less poke than yours and I can run it well enough to be happy.
Mick Berg.

 

[Pencil42]

I'm running a quad-core Intel part on one of my boxes w/o issue, so I don't think it's the number of cores. Is anything overclocked? You might also check the Windows event viewer to see if there's any mention of errors there.

Curtis

 

[nugget2225]

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my thoughts are you should at least get a quad core no matter what people say about trainz only using 2 cores , 4 gigs of ram and at least a 9 series ati card,by what i have read nvidia seems to work with trainz better than ati, i have a 6950 and i still get lag spikes in ts12, just my thoughts, and the coal routes for me are still hardly playable and should have never been released.

 

[tomurban]

Hi everyone,
I dabbled with Trainz 2004 for a while, which ran fine on my machine...I bought Trainz 2010: EE (I'd heard the Surveyor mode had been vastly improved) and It's completely unusable; lag etc. I have a AMD Phenom Quadcore CPU, 3 GB ram and an (outdated, I know) GeForce 8500GT GPU. I keep my drivers up to date regulary. Switched from OGL to DX made NO difference whatsoever...has my PC finally found itself in a wheelchair? If so what kind of set up could you recommend to run Trainz comfortably?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Are you by any chance running WIN 7 as your operating system? If so, it requires 2GB of ram to run itself. That leaves 1GB for TRAINZ. It will run but not very well. Can you stick about 2GB more (and faster) ram in that machine? A newer video card with at least 1GB of on-board ram will help a lot as well.

tomurban

 

[johnwhelan]

Hi everyone,
I dabbled with Trainz 2004 for a while, which ran fine on my machine...I bought Trainz 2010: EE (I'd heard the Surveyor mode had been vastly improved) and It's completely unusable; lag etc. I have a AMD Phenom Quadcore CPU, 3 GB ram and an (outdated, I know) GeForce 8500GT GPU. I keep my drivers up to date regulary. Switched from OGL to DX made NO difference whatsoever...has my PC finally found itself in a wheelchair? If so what kind of set up could you recommend to run Trainz comfortably?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Go to crucial.com and run their scanner, 3 gigs is an odd amount of memory, it could be triple channel but its more likely to be dual channel and if you have 2 gigs in one channel and a single gig in the other that will mess up the dual channel.

Second I'd check the machine for malware, the easy way is to download the Microsoft security essentials and make sure your auto updates are running.

Third try it on a blank surveyor and just add a bit of track and a loco. If this works fine then be aware that some of the newer layouts can be quite demanding and expensive in hardware to run.

What is your operating system?

Thanks John