New Zealand Midland Line Route Video.

[trev123]

Here is a short video that I made of this new New Zealand route until I went through a red signal. Was admiring the scenery. This might remind you of some American routes. This is set in 1968. This was made by 2 guys in their spare time as they had real-world jobs and took them 6 years to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmgzFbB ... e=youtu.be

[trev123]

This is a replay of DTGs live stream of this route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thI7PFOibTg

[mrennie]

Great route and with Jamie's new PC he was able to do it justice. Stefan also made it very entertaining with his detailed knowledge of the route and its history.

However, it was driving me up the wall watching Jamie abuse the automatic brake slider on the HUD If only people would read the manual and understand what it says about brake quadrant detents (17% on the slider means "Running" position, which is where he should have left it to do a regulated release instead of forcing it to go to 0% which is the uncontrolled Release).

[Schnauzahpowahz]

Must admit some of the release media didnt seem to do it justice but found a few videos and it looks interesting for sure.
The scenery, rolling stock, cab interiors look nice, decent sounds and *freshness*

Anyone know if it runs relatively smooth? That's the only thing kinda holding me back, some reports of heavy hitting frames- as I've only got an amd 3.4 ghz so my cpu doesn't get along w TS (or most sims) too well

And thx for the vid Trev

[trev123]

From the manual.

Route Performance
The Midland Line route for Train Simulator is, by design, very asset heavy. Early in the development
stages it became apparent that to have the route ‘feel’ like the real thing, it was going to need to have
very dense scenery.
For this reason, you may suffer from a low frame rate while using this product.
To improve your performance launch Train Simulator and head to your options/settings screen.
Decreasing either the Scenery Density or Shadow Detail sliders massively improves performance for
most users. This route was created within the 64-bit version of Train Simulator and may not work
correctly in the 32-bit version, we suggested running in 64-bit mode.

[buzz456]

Must admit some of the release media didnt seem to do it justice but found a few videos and it looks interesting for sure.
The scenery, rolling stock, cab interiors look nice, decent sounds and *freshness*

Anyone know if it runs relatively smooth? That's the only thing kinda holding me back, some reports of heavy hitting frames- as I've only got an amd 3.4 ghz so my cpu doesn't get along w TS (or most sims) too well

And thx for the vid Trev

Not to derail the topic but I just have a 3.5 i5 and it handles TS just fine. It's probably more about your video card. That's usually the choke point with TS anyway.

[Schnauzahpowahz]

Ok thx fellas. Ive got a 1660ti Buzz so im assuming itll be squared up.
My fingers on the trigger
Like to atleast help the devs investment into it, guys spent half a decade working on it. It looks unique to say the least

[latimers]

This is my rig:

ASUS TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS
Intel 10th Gen Core i9-10900KF 10 Cores LGA 12003.70Ghz CPU Processor
G.SKILL Ripjaws V 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR4 3200MHzC16 Memory
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe 1.3 M.2 (2280) V-NAND SSD TS is on this drive (in its own partition) along with the system.
3 x Team GX2 1TB 2.5" SATA III SSD
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 KO Gaming OC 8GB

With the settings turned down a little I get reasonable frame rates with this route (30-40 most of the time). However, I do get .5-1 second pauses quite frequently.

[BNSFdude]

However, I do get .5-1 second pauses quite frequently.

The wonderful curse of tile stutter. It was made worse with 64 Bit for some reason, but that downside is much lesser than the multiple against 32 bit.

[latimers]

So I assume everyone is getting "tile stutter" and it doesn't matter how powerful a machine you have?

[BNSFdude]

So I assume everyone is getting "tile stutter" and it doesn't matter how powerful a machine you have?

I run TS on an NVMe SSD and still get it.

[buzz456]

The stutter is caused by the game loading all the information when you go from (or it 'sees) one tile to another.. Unless something else is amiss if you are like switching in one location you shouldn't see any stuttering. Obviously conversely if you are going like a bat out of hades you will get stuttering quite frequently. On routes with sparse scenery the stuttering will almost not be noticeable.

[Chacal]

I didn't even know they had trains in New Zealand.
Doesn't that disturb the hobbits?

[mrennie]

The stutter is caused by the game loading all the information when you go from (or it 'sees) one tile to another.. Unless something else is amiss if you are like switching in one location you shouldn't see any stuttering. Obviously conversely if you are going like a bat out of hades you will get stuttering quite frequently. On routes with sparse scenery the stuttering will almost not be noticeable.

I suspect it's mostly to do with loading the contours of hills and mountains (in adjacent tiles), that's why the tile loading is worst in the mountainous routes (which a lot of them happen to be).

[trev123]

Ok talking about tile loading. This is a video that I made on my new PC of the French Highspeed LGV train with no stutters. CPU Intel i5 10600K. On my old PC Intel i5 2500K it use to stutter about every 30 seconds on the same route. See computer specs in my signature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGuw70 ... e=youtu.be If it looks blurry make sure it is running at 1080p HD.