Railworks America

Just bought this new card for Railworks. Anybody have any tips on what i should set the settings for on it?

BNSF
The recommendations for a video card are set in the TS2014 manual and there a bandwidth of 60GB/sec is the spec that you should exceed.
A GT 630 has a bandwidth around 15 - 30GB/sec you will have to see what setting in TS 2014 gives best results. Start with TSX off and work your way up.
GT cards usually have a lower spec than GTX variants.
By comparison a GTX 560TI that I donated to MD has a bandwidth of 130GB/sec.
A better buy would have been a GTX 650 (TI) with 2GB VRAM which has 90GB/sec bandwidth.
But, you never know with computers your card could work very well whereas I have a GTX 670 which is a very poor performer!
pH

You're getting ahead of yourselves guys. He said GT630, not GTX 630. Two completely different cards.

My apologies
However, I was referring to a GT 630 and they are usually a lower spec than the GTX series in this case depending which model was purchased the memory bandwidth could be as low as 15 GB/sec.
My comments still stand, semantics aside!
pH

Everything works fine but it lags when i try to make a video using BANDICAM?

BNSF650 wrote:Everything works fine but it lags when i try to make a video using BANDICAM?

Any tips guys.

Hi

PCI-E bus overloaded? You are passing all the video to the card for rendering but by adding Bandicam to the task, the PCI-E bus now has to also pass each rendered frame over the same bus. Without Bandicam running, all the rendered frames pass to the video connector(s), not the PCI-E bus.

Perhaps try a slower capture frame rate to see if that makes a difference.

GaryG

So i am trying to make videos again and with the new video card i am only getting 6 FRAPS when i am recording. What can i do on my end to fix this where the game still looks good.

Are you trying to run the FRAPS program, plus Bandicam, plus TS2014 at the same time? With that card????

Turn off procedural flora, lower the water reflection, and turn off LOD. That should help some. This card probably only has 1Gb of VRAM, and you're choking it.

Depending on the route, 6 or 7 frames may be about right even without Bandi and FRAPS. Before I got the new Nvidia drivers, my GTX670 was only getting about 7 frames on Stevens Pass. My card has a lot more bandwidth and twice the VRAM as yours, and like pH says, even our high end cards struggle at times with this game.

Okay i will try that maybe i need a higher grade card?

At least a GTX 650ti.
This sim just plain has graphics issues. I have a GTX 780 on med settings and even running med settings and 8x MSAA in a backup of 2013, I get low framerates in yards.
It's interesting to watch Riva Tuner while this is going on. My GPU won't run over 40% in those situations and that's what is leading to the low FPS in game.
And no I'm not bottle necking with my i5 3570K and MSI mother board. It's definitely the game engine. In fact that little oddball graphics anomaly can be traced to certain scenarios. IE one scenario runs fine in the exact same setting, but another runs like doo doo in the same exact location. It has nothing to do with number of railcars in the area either. One scenario might run with low FPS with few assets in the yard, and one might run at 80 FPS or higher with more assets in the yard. (same yard)
The one major improvement I got with the GTX 780 is that I can run with 2x2 SSAA, which gets rid of most of the aliasing.

I have a GTX650ti and am very inpressed with it. Good graphics and almost no stuttering at all. Am running most stuff on high or highest settings.

buzz456 wrote:I have a GTX650ti and am very inpressed with it. Good graphics and almost no stuttering at all. Am running most stuff on high or highest settings.

Here is my settings. I dont know what i should do.