Core Update.

[TheFlier]

Asus P8P67 Rev 3 Motheboard
Intel i5 2500k, 3.4 Ghz
16GB Corsair Vengeance Memory, 1600Mhz
NVidia GTX 550Ti Video Card, x2
Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD, SATA 3 interface (Main drive running windows and Railworks, 30GB freespace)
Western Digital 1.5 TB HDD
Seagate 1.5 TB HDD
Seagate 1 TB HDD, used as ESATA external
Lite-On Blu-Ray disk writer drive
Haf 932 case
Win7 64-bit

Onboard sound is used. And before anyone says "snob", I only paid $300 for the system. Im real good at selling my old computers.

Thanks SMM :)
Do you have RW3 installed on the SSD?

It's just that seeing both my CPU & GPU both only running around 50%, the only thing left that could be the bottleneck is Mobo or Stroage. I have my money on storage, so your SSD could explain your better HW utilisation than most other ppl. For me it confirms that the reasons for rotton utilisation is huge core-file access, and I'm also betting that the core-files in question have something to do with the processing of script-files.

So - do I buy a new gfx card, or an SSD...?
LOL

[SMMDigital]

Railworks is running off of the SSD. Because of space constraints, it is the ONLY third party program that is installed on the SSD. All others are installed in a designated folder on one of the platter drives.

It could very well be that the SSD is boosting performance. Windows loads in 15 seconds, and no route in RW, even the ones with dense scenery, takes over 15-20 seconds to load.

[SouthernPacific-Mike]

Hi all,

I know I'm new here as I just joined about a short time just before the recent patches and I have to say they did make an marked improvement for me. I have a Gateway FX6840, which is standard with exception of it's graphic's card and the program run very smoothly 99.9% of the time. My system spec are as follows:

Processor = Intel i7 (Model 870) @2.93 GHZ
Motherboard = (not sure, but it has a Intel H57 Express Chipset
Ram = 8 Gigabytes
OS = Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Byte)
Graphics Card = AMD (PCI-Express) Radeon HD 6770 with 1 GB of GDD5 Ram (Card is produced by XFX)

I do not have a Soild State Drive, standard old diskplatter. I play and run a very demanding military simulation called "Arma II" as well. So you do need a fairly stout machine to run it.

[TheFlier]

hmmm - LOL. Now I'm not so sure...

i ran ran Microsoft PROCMON to log storage access over 60 seconds of RW use (mid scenario). Nothing seemed to suggest excessive drive usage, other than 5mb written to the swapfile over that time (on a different channel to RW & Windows drives), and 60 loads of one particular passnger texture (which I deleted then ran the test again with no obvious improvement to utilisation - about 54% GPU). And 1mb read from Windows folders, Nothing really obviously slowing the system down there, so maybe it isn't storage related after all...?

I also DID see 100% GPU usage while running a shunter free-roam on the HOPETOWN route (a real titchy little route that came with the 08 shunter DLC).

So maybe its down to RAM quantity or speed. Your ram is 1600 while mine is 800.... so maybe that's the bottleneck for me? LOL - we just need somebody with an SSD and 800 speed RAM to say what kind of GPU utilisation results they see :)

Thanks again :)