Railworks America

You might ask 5292Nate, or UPSD70ACe what laptops they have. I think both are mid range, but they probably spent well over $500. Unless you go used, there's not much in the way of a gaming laptop to be had.

The best way to keep a laptop cool is, don't put it in your lap. Or on the bed or sofa. Use a cooling pad when you can. Parts that have the level of performance you are asking for generate heat. No way around it.

With the model number of her Dell laptop, you can find what's inside. Search for similar or a used one.

mdurdan wrote:Didn't think of that!
I'll have a look and post back here after the weekend.

Why are you going to post back?

buzz456 wrote:

mdurdan wrote:Didn't think of that!
I'll have a look and post back here after the weekend.

Why are you going to post back?

With the model of his girlfriends laptop I think.

I can't believe you just posted your Windows product key on a public forum.

Edit: It seems I can do this, so I went ahead and removed the picture.
Please submit again after blurring your product key.

mdurdan wrote:I'm looking at maybe this but would the graphics card be good enough for medium/high graphics?
https://www.blinq.com/computers-office/ ... OgodCAkAdA
AMD Radeon HD 7520G Discrete-Class graphics and up to 3053MB total graphics memory

That's basically my laptop (see my sig). The difference being mine came with a DVD drive, Windows 7, 4GB RAM (I later installed another 4GB for 8GB total) and paid an extra $50 at purchase from HP to install a 1GB Radeon HD 7670M discreet graphics card that can crossfire with the built-in 7520G (although not in Railworks unfortunately). 2.7GHz is the base, but it turbos to 3.2GHz. Going to turbo mode switches my GPU from the 7520G to the 1GB Radeon HD 7670M. So I can't test what 3.2GHz would do using the 7520G without removing the 7670M card.

I'd be more than happy to give you framerates at 2.7GHz and using the 7520G to match your perspective laptop's base performance. Just PM me the Railworks graphics settings you want.... then give me a route to Quick Drive test and it's starting point. Plus the consist you want from the defaults, time of day, weather, etc. I'll do it in 1600x900 and 1360x768 resolutions and give you the results.

It's your call.

Hope my PM helped you a bit. BTW.....Those framerates I mentioned in my PM were at 3.2GHz and not 2.7GHz.

Sooooo....At 2.7GHz with TSX-ON , 8xMSAA, anisotropic X8, scenery quality/density/view distance all at max, water at max.....

Cajon Pass: A Thorny Matter scenario.... At the boot up....shadows-off 27fps outside, 30fps in cab. Shadows-on MAX 17fps outside, 18fps in cab.

In free roam on Cajon Pass in summer.... selecting the ES44AC train...... forgot what outside was.... but in cab it was 17fps shadows OFF...14fps with shadows-on MAX.


On Donner Pass: Donner Pass scenario... outside was 24fps shadows OFF, 19fps with shadows on MAX..... 16fps in cab shadows OFF, 13fps shadows on MAX

Those are the framerates without moving the camera from the default angles. Those numbers will lower a bit with more objects and other trains going by.

Having TSX-OFF of course would bump up these rates higher as would adjusting the settings.


BTW..... Run 8 runs at around 27fps with settings at MAX. That's at 3.2GHZ. I think it was around 22fps for 2.7GHz.