Headlights?

[railbard]

One of the things I used to love in MSTS was running at night, especially relatively long runs where I could work on keeping to schedule while playing some music, petting the cat, and so on. Some of the routes in MSTS took on a whole new look at night, so good (or lucky :) had their designers been in setting things up.

So imagine my surprise when I went to try a night activity on TS2012 and found that apparently headlights give no light whatsoever.

Now admittedly I am using a low-end computer (2.7ghz dual-core Athlon with 4GB RAM and a 128MB nVidia card--that last will be replaced at Christmas with a 512MB card unless I can convince them to get me a 1GB one :) but is that really what's going on?

Running the train in utter darkness is....well, pointless.

Have I missed something? Or is this just a matter of my system not having the oomph to do the graphics?

Thanks!

Kevin
Quincy

[Machinist]

Hi Kevin

With your spec machine (especially graphic card) you will have problems to perform new TSX On and use the headlights.

About default headlights, Trains and Drivers has just released a pack to enhance them. See these threads:

WIP:US Locomotive Enhancement Pack (old thread, but have a lot of shots)
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3980

US Loco Enhancement Pack available! (brand new thread)
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4243

Regards.

[railbard]

Great! Thanks!

The comp was a gift to replace my old one destroyed in a fire. I'm hoping a decent graphics card will help somewhat since a new powerful system is not in the cards for a while.

Even without TSX the difference between old MSTS and TS2012 is astounding! I did find the link to the trains UK thread on how to optimize your settings so I'll be doing that sometime this weekend.

And I also have been drooling over various screen shots and can see that my lack of headlights is indeed a function of not having adequate graphics computing power. Ah well, nothing wrong with daytime runs for the time being. I can always fire up MSTS when I need a night flight. :)

Thanks again!

Kevin
Quincy

[Machinist]

You are welcome, Kevin.

Ask Santa Klaus to gift you with a 2MB (Nvidia is RSC full compatible) graphic card, and maybe (who knows? ) you end up getiing an 1MB (at least).

Cheers.

Ps.: the link to the old WIP thread in my first message was wrong, already corrected and here again:
WIP:US Locomotive Enhancement Pack (old thread, but have a lot of shots)
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3980

[railbard]

Crappy power supply in this system, so I'm pretty sure a 2GB would explode the thing (or melt the innards :). I'm even shaky about a 1GB.

But as I said, even without TSX, the increase in graphic quality from MSTS is astounding.

Gives me something to aim for (a new system :)

Kevin
Quincy

[buzz456]

I have a GT520 (2 gig) running just fine with a 400 watt power supply on my gateway.
Buzz

[micaelcorleone]

I have a GT520 (2 gig) running just fine with a 400 watt power supply on my gateway.
Buzz

The question is: how much longer?