raymac1946
Old But Crafty
When I got my Dell XPS 8940 a couple of years ago I bumped up the specs a bit with Trainz in mind. Right now I have an i7-11700, 32 GB of RAM, a 1TB NVME drive and a GTX 2060 6GB GPU. I have set the graphics to High and I find that TANE, TRS2019 and Trainz Plus all run smoothly enough for my purposes. Mostly I stick to running short 1950s style consists with 40 foot boxcars, a caboose, and a GP7 or GP9 on the point. I do a bit of primitive route creation, mostly to learn about Surveyor S20.
Now I have noticed that some folks here have massive hardware compared to myself - 12 gen i9s, GTX 3080s, 64 GB RAM. I am curious as to what they get for that investment - higher quality graphics, lots of AI trains, bigger routes? I have been able to plug along quite well on the SnC route with a Coronation Scot consist and that is a pretty big route.
I don't have hardware envy or anything, but I would be curious to find out what most folks see as a "sweet spot" for running Trainz these days. My old rig had a i5-2320, 16 GB of RAM, a 1060 6GB and an SSD and I was happy enough with that.
Now I have noticed that some folks here have massive hardware compared to myself - 12 gen i9s, GTX 3080s, 64 GB RAM. I am curious as to what they get for that investment - higher quality graphics, lots of AI trains, bigger routes? I have been able to plug along quite well on the SnC route with a Coronation Scot consist and that is a pretty big route.
I don't have hardware envy or anything, but I would be curious to find out what most folks see as a "sweet spot" for running Trainz these days. My old rig had a i5-2320, 16 GB of RAM, a 1060 6GB and an SSD and I was happy enough with that.
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