Need help finding a good and affordable laptop to play Trainz a new era please

I want to play my Trainz a new era collectors edition so bad. I need help finding a good and affordable laptop to play Trainz a new era please. Either eBay or Amazon. Could anyone help me please?

You would need to define a budget to work with. Odds on however anything cheap would be useless for T:ANE. Quite a few of us struggle with performance orientated desktops.

Jack

Agree. Just about any laptop would be questionable at the moment until/if N3V solve the way in which the programme red-lines the hardware. leading to potential cooling issues. There was a theory in the Steam...Review thread the other day that AMD graphics might be more prone to this, so if you insist on buying a laptop, make sure it has Nvidia graphics. And any laptop with a "proper" graphics card as opposed to an Intel integrated chip (pretty much useless for gaming) is not going to be a budget model. Obviously the OP is from the US, it might be worth checking to see if you can find an indie company that produces custom laptops (similar to PC Specialist in the UK), that way you can get what you want and minus the 25% mark up that a Sony, Dell or similar badge on the case puts on the price.

However the best advice at this stage is, if you really want to run TANE (and believe me you're not missing much) you're better off on a desktop PC.

I have a laptop, a Toshiba C55-A. Bottom of the barrel specs, as well as the dreaded AMD integrated GPU, Windows 8.1, 4 GB RAM. It runs TS12 SP1HF4 pretty well. It hiccups a little, but no big deal. I don't know how well it would run T:ANE because I don't have it, but if you want cheap, I would say something a little better than what I have. You won't have very smooth frame rates, and you will have to tamper with the graphics settings quite a bit, but it should be playable.

Matt

I'd agree with Vern - get a desktop, or wait (perhaps a long time) to see how things go. Even a very high-end laptop is likely to run T:ANE poorly, let alone an "affordable" one.

T:ANE does run well on some laptops - mostly high-performance, well-cooled Gaming ones, or so-called 'Desktop replacements' - (e.g. Alienware, MSI Titan, ASUS ROG series, etc.)
However, the vast majority of 'affordable, run of the mill' laptops will produce very disappointing framerates and jerky performance with T:ANE (if they will run it at all.)

You need a laptop with a discrete GPU (i.e. not with integrated CPU/GPU graphics.) with at least 1GB of dedicated VRAM and highly-efficient cooling mechanisms.

Cheaper and better solutions are more easily achieved with DIY gaming desktops.

T:ANE is a VERY demanding simulator, which is capable of producing stunning and amazingly realistic railway simulations/ scenarios with competent hardware and modern 64bit operating systems.
It seems to me that the majority of people expressing disappointment with T:ANE's current state of development on these forums appear to being attempting to run this simulator with inadequate hardware resources.
This situation will change over time as N3V fine-tunes the performance of the new E2 engine and as users upgrade their hardware to more suitable platforms.

I have a mid range netbook - an ACER S7 with an i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM but only a stock standard Intel HD graphic system. It runs T:ANE but at the default "low end" settings - no shadows, etc.