Hi all, Back in February, I purchased a Dell G5 Gaming desktop to play TS2022 on, however I still haven't found the ideal graphics settings to make the best out of it. I've tried changing the settings a little but the graphics on TS2022 don't seem to be as sharp as I'd like them to be, they still appear to be a little fuzzy and I sometimes notice lines appearing, particularly when playing an AP 377 (not sure if this is a specific issue with that unit). My new desktop has 16GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660 graphics, so does anyone have any advice on what the best graphics settings to run TS2022 with this setup are? Many thanks in advance
What resolution are you running the game at? This will have a massive effect on what settings you can realistically apply. Also.. what CPU do you have? TS20xx is a heavily CPU dependent game.. not just GPU, as it is not a very multithreaded game. It tends to hit one core pretty hard, so good single core performance is a bonus. Also, what do you mean by fuzzy.. and lines? Can you post a screenshot to show us? Lines appearing doesn't sound right to me... regardless of what game settings you have.
PH These are the specs Specifications Processor Intel Core i7-9700 Motherboard Dell proprietary 0DXJD9 (Intel H370 Chipset) Memory 16GB DDR4-2666MHz Graphics Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 (6GB GDDR5) Storage 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Power Supply 460W Case Dell G5 Gaming Desktop Cooling 1x 80mm rear case fan; 1x 80mm CPU fan; Operating System Windows 10 Home Some reasonable settings in the NVCP could help and I thought you had published some on these forums? pH
It might be worth looking at antialiasing settings, as they can make things look a bit fuzzy sometimes. Resolution is also majorly important - I find 900p the lowest I can go without the game looking totally LOVE.
Oh well... until the OP replies with a screenshot, we'll never know. class455 Here's how I run the game. I have ambient occlusion off because I also run RWEnhancer Pro, which handles this is a different way. You should have it turned on, and set reasonably high. Dynamic clouds are off, because I use the Armstrong Powerhouse Sky and Weather enhancement pack, and that requires it to be off in order to use it's own method of doing this. You should turn it on. I use a 10 year old PC with an Intel i7 3960x, 16GB of DDR3, and a 7 year old Nvidia GTX980 and I run the game at 2560 x1600. I get between 22 and 40fps in most scenarios.
Thanks Pookeyhead. Apologies, I'm away from my PC at the moment until mid December so can't provide you with my settings just yet but will do so when I return. Love the background too! How do you create a custom background for the game out of interest?
You change the file "background.jpg" located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Railworks\data\textures\frontend
So, I managed to change my settings according to Pookeyhead's advice and the settings advice for NVIDIA Control panel, the game now runs really well (well...most of the time) and the graphics are a lot sharper than they were before. However, I have been in the process of creating a scenario on a workshop route (Danny's Routes South London and Thameslink) and I keep getting Out of Memory crashes. My scenario has quite a lot of AI as it starts from London Victoria, so I thought it could be something to do with the higher graphics settings. I also have a crash on a scenario I made for the ECML south where the editor loads but crashes after 15 seconds. The strange thing is however I seem to be able to get around these crashes by driving something else for 30 minutes or more, after which these scenarios seem to load without much issue. Any idea what could be behind this? I did purchase the AP Sky and Weather enhancement in the latest sale and these crashes only happened more frequently after that but I didn't think that was an issue as everything else seems to work perfectly with it. My PC has 16GB of RAM so that should be more than enough to run these kind of scenarios. I can provide crash logs providing anyone is able to read into them
Fyi, there is no such background.jpg in my install, in fact I can't find the menu background image anywhere, I can find the splash screen that shows briefly prior to the menu appearing and also the little splash images that show centre of your screen when you initially launch TS but not the current menu background, weird.
Also while we're on the subject, DTG do some bloody housekeeping! In case you haven't noticed storage space is at a premium for most and the cost of bigger and bigger SSD's are unobtainable to some, so why on earth do we still have 2013 & 2014 + 2019 & 2020 splash and menu screens in our installs? Makes you wonder what other obsolete LOVE you've left in unnecessarily bloating our installs.
94Mb here, but the point is if they've left superfluous image files in that one folder then what else is there?
Just been reminded that I never got to the bottom of this, how can I change the background if I don't have the file?
Owww!... that hurt. Try just naming a file that and placing in that folder anyway... see what happens.
Yeah tried that, it did nothing (even after going offline and clearing the cache) I'm baffled why I have it missing and others don't.
Then I'm at a loss to explain it, as I just took a screenshot... named it "background.jpg" and dumped it in that folder, and it worked.
Not sure why that other member deleted his post but I have the same thing as they mentioned, whenever you run the game it deletes the backgroud.jpg if I place one in there, it was a 1920x1080 .jpg, I also tried a .tga and a .png (properly created not just an extension name change) oddly neither of those get deleted but it still doesn't change the menu screen.. Baffling.
It has to exist somewhere LOL.. this is weird. Maybe for some reason it's called something else on your system, and you need to search visually for it by looking at thumbnails in search results.
Reef My experience: I do NOT have a background.jpg file in any part of my TS install! (searched with Everywhere) However, I do have a background.jpg.MD5 file in my :\STEAM\steamapps\common\RailWorks\data\textures\frontend Folder dated from 2017,
My old PC suffered a catastrophic meltdown and the PSU fried ALL of my Hard drives, (I didn't have an external backup then either and as my backup drive was internal that fried too) as a result my install was completely fresh as of late January last year, maybe that's why?!
I dont know how people only use minimal AA, even on 4k, the shimmering is ridiculous, I dont have RWenhancer, not sure if that improves the overheads or not though.
Pookeyhead Peter Hayes Just to close the lid on this background image thing. I've finally gotten it to work but through no doing of mine, the credit for that goes to Simon Brugel and a little program he wrote to change the background image called TS Background Changer > https://sbrugel.com/game-content.html And believe it or not it places a background.jpg in your RailWorks\data\textures\frontend Folder just as I was doing, the only difference I discovered is the one S Brugels software placed was Read Only whereas mine wasn't (I only discovered this as I went to edit and overwrite said image directly) I don't know if his program had to do anything else in order to get it to work but work it does...
I personally prefer antialiasing too, especially for overhead lines. Id rather run at a lower resolution but decent AA than high resolution without it. I know some people find AA to be “blurry” though. Guess its just personal preference!
I know CPU single core performance is king in TS. BUT i recently went from an underspecced GTX650ti to a second hand GTX1060, and even with an i5 3,4 ghz (in itself slightly underspecced), the performance gain was huge. Thinking of swapping the cpu to something with 4,x ghz.
Clock speed isn't the only factor. Mine runs at 4.8GHz all cores, but it's a 10 year old 3960X.. and it's still terrible
