Trainsimulator 2012

[Importz2k1]

Why when I turn on TSX the screen is grey when I run the Sim & scenery are not visible,After I turn off TSX load run my scenario all the scenery etc are visible again.?

What do you have your anti aliasing turned to on your graphics card? Set it to 0 if you have it turned on.

[UPSD70ACe]

Would that be in the TS2012 settings or in my Graphics Card settings please tell me more info please.

[Importz2k1]

In your graphics card settings, turn off anti aliasing.

[styckx]

Yep, 6990 is useless also. Nothing will run this game on the highest settings.. Even with a 6990, stutters like mad with SSAA 2x2 and I was getting 20-26fps leaving Altoona (In Winter Freeroam). Both GPU's hit a max of 76%..

[Shortliner]

Yep, 6990 is useless also. Nothing will run this game on the highest settings.. Even with a 6990, stutters like mad with SSAA 2x2 and I was getting 20-26fps leaving Altoona (In Winter Freeroam). Both GPU's hit a max of 76%..

Well, I may hold off on the purchase of a new graphic card then.

[MJBrinegar]

Well, I may hold off on the purchase of a new graphic card then.

Same here. Maybe when they enable more cores it will get better.

[Importz2k1]

Yep, 6990 is useless also. Nothing will run this game on the highest settings.. Even with a 6990, stutters like mad with SSAA 2x2 and I was getting 20-26fps leaving Altoona (In Winter Freeroam). Both GPU's hit a max of 76%..

Oh man I'm sorry to hear that styckx! That was an expensive experiment.

[styckx]

Oh man I'm sorry to hear that styckx! That was an expensive experiment.

Not really. I didn't just buy it for TS 2012.. That would be silly. :) I had a number of games that were a little too intense to play across three monitors at 5760x1080... The 6990 chews through those games now without even flinching. Like Bad Company 2 now runs at 40-50fps fully maxed out at 5760x1080...

[jamiee]

Not really. I didn't just buy it for TS 2012.. That would be silly. :) I had a number of games that were a little too intense to play across three monitors at 5760x1080... The 6990 chews through those games now without even flinching. Like Bad Company 2 now runs at 40-50fps fully maxed out at 5760x1080...

Now if you really wanna have some fun.... add a 6970 to yer new 6990.
You'll have some awesome performance (beating two GTX580's in SLI) for less than the cost of a pair of GTX580's

Sadly even this super high-end combo isn't able to tame TS2012 though
But everything else will FLY!

BTW, how do you find the fan noise of the 6990 ?

[styckx]

Now if you really wanna have some fun.... add a 6970 to yer new 6990.
You'll have some awesome performance (beating two GTX580's in SLI) for less than the cost of a pair of GTX580's

Sadly even this super high-end combo isn't able to tame TS2012 though
But everything else will FLY!

BTW, how do you find the fan noise of the 6990 ?

It's not nearly as bad as all the reviews say.. Yes, it can get ridiculously loud fully maxxed out, but that's hard to do just gaming unless you game from inside a steam room.

Anyway, back on topic.. This convo is for the geek speak forum. :)

[MontanaRails]

All this talk about monster computers not being able to run RW3 all maxed out with decent and consistent frame rates brings up a question...........

Has anyone ever heard what RSC uses to develop and test run this software? What are THEIR framerates like....?

[Toripony]

Yep, 6990 is useless also. Nothing will run this game on the highest settings.. Even with a 6990, stutters like mad with SSAA 2x2 and I was getting 20-26fps leaving Altoona (In Winter Freeroam). Both GPU's hit a max of 76%..

I'm puzzled why you're getting such bad stutter... I've never had it run so smoothly for me before. No matter what the frame rate, the frames tick off in near-perfectly (as near as my eye can tell) even time intervals. I have DOF and Bloom turned off, "Highest" on everything else; could that be a cause?? Am running the HSC route nicely; my Alleghany route is a drag, though. But no stuttering, it's just slow. Edit mode is slower than before, but I've having fewer screen stutters there, too (they could be 2-3 seconds long sometimes in RW2).

Maybe the new build will help.

[djchristi]

I too have had strange problems on the NEC. Random uncouplings (and if I stop and back up to the "lost" cars at a very slow speed they suddenly start moving towards the engine and collide). I also have had AI collisions on the Keystone Scenario with a freight on the outside track. As a former Penn Station commuter I enjoy poking around Penn Station. I'll have to get some LIRR trainsets to make it look right. Yes, it is too bright as others have commented.

It got so bad I decided to make a new Free Roam Scenario with the Hitachi IET. Cloned the Big Apple Scenario and built a six car set. I wasn't paying attention and my on my first try I used the "trailer" coaches which are unpowered - very anemic. After replacing them with the powered versions (they have vents on top) I set off for Philly. Acceleration is still a bit lacking but top speed makes up for it. I managed a sustained 154 mph over several stretches of New Jersey - and no uncoupling! The IET tainset generates very nice flange squeal going across points and small radius curves (like those numerous examples just north of Philly). Nice job developers - it sounds great. As noted above the pantograph is a bit short and does arc frequently. I originally thought this was the cause of the initial lack of power but apparently not. A very fun run NY to Philadephia and back (although I don't begin to understand the ins and outs to the lower level of 30th St. Station.)

I got very frustrated trying to build my train at the Penn Station platforms but had no trouble at the "designated" locations just inside the East River tunnels. I don't think the editor likes to place engines and rolling stock on top of switches, and there are a lot of them there. The graphic "barriers" (they look like walls) just inside both ends of the station in Edit mode is weird.

Someone above mentioned a fix for the NEC uncoupling bug. Could you please post a link to it? Thanks.
Dave
in Springfield, MO - Home of the Frisco.

[AntonLchange]

The update gives some strange things to me. Loading a scenario gives me this picture (screenshot2)
Also for BSB, HSC and Castle Rock. Some are ok, Fort Kent and IIR.
The Bay of Quinten lost all track ( bay2). Did verify integretie, cleared blueprint cache, reinstalled
scalerail HD. No luck. If this is discussed before please point me there.
Any idea welcome.
Ton

[Kali]

I'm puzzled why you're getting such bad stutter... I've never had it run so smoothly for me before. No matter what the frame rate, the frames tick off in near-perfectly (as near as my eye can tell) even time intervals. I have DOF and Bloom turned off, "Highest" on everything else; could that be a cause?? Am running the HSC route nicely; my Alleghany route is a drag, though. But no stuttering, it's just slow. Edit mode is slower than before, but I've having fewer screen stutters there, too (they could be 2-3 seconds long sometimes in RW2).

Maybe the new build will help.

Also pretty smooth here even when the fps plummets; there is still micro-stuttering but it's less noticeable than RW2 for sure.

I'm not going to drop £500 on a gfx card ( for starters I don't have it :P ) but I think I may do a more modest replacement. Nearly 3 years is an eternity for gfx cards anyway.