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howard334 (1 posts)
Dec-14-01, 02:41 PM (EST) "Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Hello everyone....
Just recieved my copy of Trainz on 12-12 and I must admit I'm a little disappointed. It isn't quite up to par performance wise. Surveyor is wonderful, beats up MSTS by a long shot, but the performance of the "JET" engine during play was less than I expected. I have a 1.5 Ghz P4 w/512 MB and Nvidia graphics card and I find the frame rate to be about 8-10 FPS (not in Surveyor however which rates are excellent) - perhaps I'm used to the frame rates in MSTS which seems to outperform Trainz during play framerate wise. And thats with all the options on in MSTS, as opposed to Trainz which I left at the default. And Trainz ended up costing more than MSTS. I tried to reduce some of the effects in Trainz but unfortunatley it becomes less than pleasing to the eye - tracks are drawn short until the consist is almost on top of the next section, reducing the polygon count on the consist to help relieve some of the work ends up producing engines/wagons that are almost unrecognizable, AI traffic runs "jumpy" - not a smooth ride anywhere except in cabview looking out the sides.Maybe I'm doing something wrong here - correct me if I am.....If we could combine the editor of Trainz with the play engine of MSTS wow......
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... dgallina Dec-14-01 1 RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... Tony_Hilliam Dec-14-01 2 RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... Jitny Dec-22-01 3 RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... Boweavel Dec-22-01 4 RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... Jitny Dec-22-01 5 RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo...... edlight Dec-24-01 6

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dgallina (230 posts)
Dec-14-01, 05:19 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" What resolution are you running at? In general you need to run Trainz at a *lower* resolution than MSTS to achieve decent frame-rate. Check out the readme file if you haven't for suggested configurations / settings.I play mostly on an Athlon 1.2Ghz with 512MB ram and 32MB Geforce 2 GTS. On this hardware I get decent FPS (between 20 and 30) at 800x600x32 resolution with shadows on.Diego Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Tony_Hilliam (9 posts)
Dec-14-01, 10:17 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Hi Howard, Sounds like you need to update your drivers - with your system specs, you should get great performance. People have reported doubling of framerates by installing the latest drivers. Visit our website and read the Technical FAQ's for help here... http://www.auran.com/trainz/techfaq.htmThere is also a technical support forum where there are some great fine tuning tips. If none of that helps, then drop our support guys an email.Here are a couple of posts from the Trainz forums regarding framerates etc...1.
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
256Meg DDR
Geforce 2 Leadtek Titanium 64meg
53 gig HD (2 drives)
Soundblaster DE5.1 Did some tests, on the english run as weevil did. Running 1024 x 768 32bit
Everything turned on Letting the train run while i go to the desktop, i get normally 45-50 fps with some drops to 37.
2.
After messing around with Trainz for a couple days I must say I am totally speechless at the quality of this product! I did have one minor problem with rainbow ground textures. Once I downloaded the latest drivers for my video card it was fine. I think the sounds are absolutely wonderful! I had to do a double take after placing a gas station in surveyor, it sounds like an active gas station! Each time I play with Trainz I find something new that I like! If the people at Auran ever made an OS I would buy it in a heartbeat! And I runs great on my computer with everything turned up and 1600x1200 32 and shadows! I got my "SANTA" system about 9 months ago when stuff was VERY cheap! Off I go to play some more! weeeeeeeeeeeee P4 1.5
384 Rambus
SBLIVE Value
Geforce 3 of the Visiontek persuasion
19" Viewsonic flat crt Tony Hilliam
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Jitny (97 posts)
Dec-22-01, 10:02 AM (EST) 3. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Hey allI don't suppose a Voodoo5 card will ever be welcome in Trainz

Regards
Bob
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M&O,GM&O,CSX,IC,SOUTHERN,BNSF,L&N

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Boweavel (1399 posts)
Dec-22-01, 10:49 AM (EST) 4. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Probably not Jitny But on the bright side.. Just think how well the rest of your games will run if you decide to buy an upgrade Catchya Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Jitny (97 posts)
Dec-22-01, 11:56 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Yup
You have a point, but, being a retired dude with limited assets..... you know Regards
Bob
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M&O,GM&O,CSX,IC,SOUTHERN,BNSF,L&N

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edlight (35 posts)
Dec-24-01, 05:27 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Auran Trainz is slooooo......" Service Pack 1 should fix it with Direct x support. It runs alot faster in Direct x -- it's in open gl now.There's a way to force it into directx for experimentation but it crashes after a bit without the service pack.In trainzoptions.txt add
-Render=RenderDirectx
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