Not sure how to name this thread... I know some of the "speed" of the game comes down to performance, but thats not really what I mean IRL 30 - 40 kph is a speed trams usually get up to (they go to 60 kph or more usually only on sections that are at least partially separated), and when you sit in the tram, it seems fairly quick at 60 - 80 kph you already perceive the train is picking up speed, or is cruising at a fairly chill speed at around 100 - 120 kph you see the train is going pretty fast, kind of like a car on highway somewhere around 140 kph you can see the train is going fast, and often you can hear it at around 160 kph the surroundings are starting to blur The thing is, as of right now, even at 120 - 140 kph, it rarely feels as if you are going very fast (at 80 it still mostly feels like crawl, unless you switch to 8 fly by camera)... I know it cant be as fast IRL, but maybe it would use a bit of a speed-up? Dont know how else to describe it, how to better sell the perception/illusion of speed Any ideas?
Speed is affected by many different things like camera angles, fov and many other things. The same 100mph will feel different in other games. You also get used to it so if you've been driving 100mph for a while, it feels slow. Simulating the perception of speed is difficult as real life has much more variables
like, yeah, I sometimes switch to camera angles that look as if you were peering out of driver's cab window, but then you dont see dials and stuff it's just this, I dont know how to define it - IRL, 60 - 80 kph already feels not really slow, as it is a speed of a car where it is allowed to go faster (like roads between towns and such), and even in train, or tram-train like Badner Bahn, 80 kph already feels comfy but fast... and when a freight train goes 80 or 100 kph, it not only looks fast but also it rumbles big time... not even going into detail when I saw Vectron-led freight train (probably 2 Vectrons), quite long one, blasting through some place at 120 kph, that was thunder and looked blazingly fast when I rode Bratislava to Galanta in a REX train, 140 kph fresh after track upgrades, felt like lightning or CJX5 from St. Polten to Wien Westbahnhof, 160 kph... and oooohhh myyy ICE-T from Wien Hbf to St. Polten, 220 kph, DAAAMN I get it that part of it is overall performance of the machine where you run TSW, but even then... even when TSW runs 60fps smooth, sometimes it feels like you are crawling even at 80 or so kph
If you play on pc. There's god mode mod. This enables the first person view to zoom out a lot further. Which Makes it look like you are moving faster. I've noticed on both tsw and tsc the more you zoom in the slower it feels like you are traveling.
a tragic fact is that today the price for some of the best graphics cards are almost as high as the whole damn PC when I bought it back in 2017 ... and even 1080 is a big chunky thing, but newer cards are as big as some mini PCs (no surprise as they have components to rival a smaller PC ) back when I got my PC, it was a total overkill in terms of performance - I knew I couldnt afford it in one payment, so I got sth that would still be usable when it got paid off ... and the fact I can still run TSW or even Space Marine 2 (loading is super-long but still, game itself is playable just fine) 7yrs later is proof I had chosen well today if I wanted sth comparably overkill-ish, it would cost me like 5 to 6k, just PC, not counting screen
I brought a server based machine around 2012. It cost an absolute fortune! One of the kids are using it with a 2060s to play tsw, msfs etc.. works well. Gives the local power station a run for its money though. Graphics cards are absolutely ridiculous past few years. £800 mid range!!! I remember when you could by 2 and run sli for a lot less. Pre covid I bought a 1050ti new for £120 and sold it couple of years later for £180 second hand.
I have seen a box for like 4070 Super in Vienna and it was almost half the size the box my whole PC came in lol
