Holy cow!

[OldProf]

I'm back at my American computer again, a more powerful machine than the one I bought in Italy this year. There, I thought TS 2013 was running pretty well, though not at high frame rates and some lowered graphics settings necessary. Here, it's an entirely different story: I'm able to run TS 2013 with all graphics settings at their highest levels and still get frame rates in the 20's to the 30's even on the most taxing routes. I'm continuing to work on a freight switching scenario for the Munich-Augsburg route and am absolutely stunned at the graphics detail, especially in shadows. I'll take some screen shots and post them here soon.

Thanks, RSC!!!!!!

[hermit1953]

Benvenuto nel nuovo mondo RW4, prof! Ma alora, che pezzo di rotame hai preso qua in bella Italia

It indeed is a completely new experience, high quality graphics, smooth as silk (especially those trains going the other direction at high speed, no micro-stutters what-so-ever). I get 29 fps rock steady on my older PCI-Express 2 board. Imagine what it would be on PCI-Ex 3!
The only occasional hick-up seems to be on older routes, apparently when graphics loading jumps from one ground tile to the next. Got to get smart on that...

Truly, thanks RSC! Praise where praise is called for, you guys are definitely on the right track (uh, pun intended?)

For those who are interested, I'll put my rig specs and set-up in the signature when back home...

[artimrj]

I wasn't having too much problems with 2012. I had a AMD Phenom II with 6 physical cores at 2.7 ghrtz and an ATI Radeon 5750. 8 gig of memory and 1 on the video board using Win 7 64 bit. With 2013 everything seemed to look better but I was still getting the same sort of frame rates. I then got a nVidia GTX 550 TI and now it is wow! I turned off the FPS lock and cruise from 30 to 45 depending on the tile. Everything is clear and smooth. The 550 is not the top end but more of the low end, but it is better than the 5750. Plus it improved all my other games like Skyrim. No stutters anywhere.

[Haystack]

I wasn't having too much problems with 2012. I had a AMD Phenom II with 6 physical cores at 2.7 ghrtz and an ATI Radeon 5750. 8 gig of memory and 1 on the video board using Win 7 64 bit. With 2013 everything seemed to look better but I was still getting the same sort of frame rates. I then got a nVidia GTX 550 TI and now it is wow! I turned off the FPS lock and cruise from 30 to 45 depending on the tile. Everything is clear and smooth. The 550 is not the top end but more of the low end, but it is better than the 5750. Plus it improved all my other games like Skyrim. No stutters anywhere.

What kind of settings can you run on that 550 ti with 30-45 fps?

[buzz456]

I was having considerable stuttering with 2012 and 2013 runs silky smooth with everything I have thrown at it so far. Am loving it.
Intel i5-370 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Ram 8 GB
64 bit W7
GTX 550 Ti

I had a GT520 in here before. The video card is like night and day.
Buzz

[GSkid]

I have mixed results with 2013. I've seen in some cases a 15fps-20fps increase from 2012. But that's with all sliders down compared with them all down in 2012. With all sliders up to max and TSX-ON, I only see a 1fps-5fps increase over the same in 2012.

I'm not sure if it's because my laptop's discreet GPU card isn't as advanced as it's high end brothers OR the fact my CPU is only dual core with 1MB cache or that it doesn't support hyperthreading. Who knows!?!? My specs are in my sig.

It's like the tootsie pop commercial with the wise old owl in the tree that asks how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center...... the world may never know.