TRS2006 redux, now with better hardware
Oct. 27th, 2006 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeA while ago I wrote about Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006 and associated performance issues. Now I have a better machine, with better graphics hardware, and the performance is correspondingly better. 1GB of RAM is a must. I can only get 4-5 fps rendering, but that's a very consistent frame rate and it seems to be independent of any graphics options, so it can be 4-5 very pretty frames per second, and there's no visible slowdown on this hardware if some complicated object like another train comes through the scene.
One of my rants earlier was about the installer, and the Service Pack 1 doesn't make it any better. It's a CD-sized download, from Australia, and only runs on a fresh install that's never been run. At least reading from the CDs on the newer machine isn't painfully slow. Brief playing with TRS2006 SP1 hasn't found noticable improvement, but the documented things are largely in the download manager, plus a couple of things I don't frequently trip ("end-of-track buffers actually stop the train").
So I think the recommendation improves to "if you have a machine buff enough to play other modern games and you won't feel guilty about blowing $20 on a train game, then you'll probably like Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006."
(Kind of want to put together a model for the greater Boston area, but don't actually want to do it myself...and don't know who's actually the right kind of computers-plus-trains geeky to think it's interesting.)
One of my rants earlier was about the installer, and the Service Pack 1 doesn't make it any better. It's a CD-sized download, from Australia, and only runs on a fresh install that's never been run. At least reading from the CDs on the newer machine isn't painfully slow. Brief playing with TRS2006 SP1 hasn't found noticable improvement, but the documented things are largely in the download manager, plus a couple of things I don't frequently trip ("end-of-track buffers actually stop the train").
So I think the recommendation improves to "if you have a machine buff enough to play other modern games and you won't feel guilty about blowing $20 on a train game, then you'll probably like Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006."
(Kind of want to put together a model for the greater Boston area, but don't actually want to do it myself...and don't know who's actually the right kind of computers-plus-trains geeky to think it's interesting.)
