Railworks America

Well, I've successfully downloaded Windows 10 and everything seems tickety-boo except for monitor resolution. I have an ASUS 24" wide-screen monitor with a max resolution of 1920x1080. The maximum resolution that win10 will allow me is 1280x1024, so the image does not fill my monitor's screen. I see that Windows is using its own driver, whereas I imagine that an ASUS driver would improve things. Has anyone figured out how to install proprietary drivers?

That's kinda weird Tom. The reason I say that is because Windows 10 should acknowledge much higher screen resolutions than that and the monitors usually don't need a proprietary driver.
You could check Asus' website for answers.
Could the monitor itself have been reset? IE maybe the auto resolution switching isn't working with Windows 10 but you could manually switch it to the proper resolution in the monitor's menu.
Maybe it's GPU driver issue. Many people around the the net are saying they've had to update to new versions of Nvidia and AMD drivers, that older driver versions aren't working with Win 10.

As far as installing proprietary drivers, it should work like always. Go get the proper driver for your GPU model and OS, then download it to downloads. Then right click on the file and select "Run as Administrator" to install it.
Select "Clean Install" if available. That last one always is an option with Nvidia.

I also had resolution problems. I have a Asus 28" monitor and was very concerned about the small screen in the middle of my monitor. No matter what I tried, I could not enlarge the resolution. The next day, I received several upgrades that fixed the problem. Not sure what the fix was, but Windows 10 did not recognize my monitor in the first place, hence the minimum screen size.
Everything up and running great now.

I too had that problem. How I resolved it was when I went into device manager I noticed that the display adaptor device had a yellow explanation mark beside it, I opened that and clicked on the nvidia driver and the screen resolution changed to the correct one. 1920x1080.

For me, the Device Manager lists my ASUS VE247H monitor as "Generic Plug and Play Monitor" and uses a driver located in Sys32\BasicDisplay.sys. My NVIDIA video card, on the other hand, appears as "Standard Video Card" with the same driver location. Yesterday, I downloaded the proper NVIDIA driver for use with WIN10, but it did not install successfully. I used to know these tricks, but isn't there a way to safely delete a driver and force Windows to look for another one?

OldProf wrote:For me, the Device Manager lists my ASUS VE247H monitor as "Generic Plug and Play Monitor" and uses a driver located in Sys32\BasicDisplay.sys. My NVIDIA video card, on the other hand, appears as "Standard Video Card" with the same driver location. Yesterday, I downloaded the proper NVIDIA driver for use with WIN10, but it did not install successfully. I used to know these tricks, but isn't there a way to safely delete a driver and force Windows to look for another one?

You shouldn't have a problem if you have an iGPU (which you should). Windows will use that instead.

Thanks for the tips! I had begun to think (fear?) that WIN 10 would not allow users to install downloaded drivers, but I finally found the correct NVIDIA driver for my GT630 (no snickering, please), downloaded and installed it, and every blessed square centimeter of my monitor is now joyously filled. PHEW!

OldProf wrote:Thanks for the tips! I had begun to think (fear?) that WIN 10 would not allow users to install downloaded drivers, but I finally found the correct NVIDIA driver for my GT630 (no snickering, please), downloaded and installed it, and every blessed square centimeter of my monitor is now joyously filled. PHEW!

Great!

I won't snicker at you. I'm using an Intel HD Graphics 4000 iGPU, so it's kinda slow... but since Railworks is so heavily CPU-based, my quad-cores are fine with dealing with it.

SF

.. but since Railworks is so heavily CPU-based, my quad-cores are fine with dealing with it.

Its actually more gpu intensive than cpu.
My figures over 4-5 years show an average cpu usage of around 31%, - RAM 24% and with a 1920 x 1200 monitor a VRAM usage up to 1.8GB and a total usage at peak of 85%. Now, Photoshop 64-bit with raw data is cpu intensive!
pH

peterhayes wrote:SF

.. but since Railworks is so heavily CPU-based, my quad-cores are fine with dealing with it.

Its actually more gpu intensive than cpu.
My figures over 4-5 years show an average cpu usage of around 31%, - RAM 24% and with a 1920 x 1200 monitor a VRAM usage up to 1.8GB and a total usage at peak of 85%. Now, Photoshop 64-bit with raw data is cpu intensive!
pH

I've found many people who find that graphics cards don't have much affect.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1784278

That's one example.

That reference was from 2011 - it is quite different now especially since TS2012.
pH

peterhayes wrote:That reference was from 2011 - it is quite different now especially since TS2012.
pH

Hmm... makes sense. But what you said was the first time I heard anyone say that.

SF
If you choose low graphics settings for your card or internal gpu then the usage will be low.
I use all settings in TS2015 ALL set full right and SSAA 3 x 3 and that takes a lot of gpu (and cpu) power to render that to a 27" Monitor.
There are a lot of myths about TS in all its variations but it does need a balanced PC to work effectively.
You are lucky to get it working on an internal gpu as it needs a minimum bandwidth on any gpu of at least 60Gb/sec to run reasonably well.
If your motherboard supports it you should look at using LucidLogix as that combines the power of the internal card with a discrete gpu too.
Plus large monitor(s) and 4K monitors need huge gpu resources bandwidth and VRAM to run a simulator like TS.
pH

peterhayes wrote:SF
If you choose low graphics settings for your card or internal gpu then the usage will be low.
I use all settings in TS2015 ALL set full right and SSAA 3 x 3 and that takes a lot of gpu (and cpu) power to render that to a 27" Monitor.
There are a lot of myths about TS in all its variations but it does need a balanced PC to work effectively.
You are lucky to get it working on an internal gpu as it needs a minimum bandwidth on any gpu of at least 60Gb/sec to run reasonably well.
If your motherboard supports it you should look at using LucidLogix as that combines the power of the internal card with a discrete gpu too.
Plus large monitor(s) and 4K monitors need huge gpu resources bandwidth and VRAM to run a simulator like TS.
pH

Thanks for the info!

I actually looked into LucidLogix a few months ago. I'll take another look.

I don't have a HUGE monitor, but it is 1920 x 1080. I'm running the game on medium graphics and I'm getting around 20-30 FPS, and on some really basic routes (Castle Rock Railroad), I've gotten 40 FPS once. I'm not sure why I'm getting such great speed with an iGPU.

Just tried Virtu MVP, but it's not compatible with Windows 10.

Are there any other tools?