Struggling To Run Tsc On A Laptop With Good Specs

Hi, I have fairly recently got a PC designed for gaming, which has an i5-11400H, laptop RTX 3050, meaning it has 4GB VRAM instead of the usual 6GB, and it has 16GB RAM. TSC does not run smoothly even on medium settings, having low FPS and a lot of stuttering, which considering TSW runs perfectly well on high settings, surprises me. Is there a limitation with my PC specs, or is there something else going wrong? I have all the latest Nvidia drivers, same goes for windows and my CPU etc. My only thought was maybe it has something to do with the VRAM? but then again I’m not sure. If anyone could give any tips or information, I would be very grateful.

Also sorry if I’ve put this in the wrong place, but I thought this to be better than putting it in technical reports.

 

Does your laptop have the NVIDIA GPU as well as an integrated one?

 

Make sure that you are using your GPU and not integrated graphics. TSC is an old game and often laptops don’t detect that it should use the gpu.

If you follow the instructions here they should help.

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...t=Choose the app you want,one you want to use.

 

Don't expect much from an i5. TSC needs good performance per core, which the i5 can't deliver.

 

I usually agree with you about most things but I run a i5-10600K CPU @ 4.10GHz and it runs TSC just fine with almost all of the settings maxed out. I would bet the issue is the GPU or the config somewhere.

 

Even if this is the case, my game runs too horrifically bad for this to be the problem. It runs similarly to how it ran on my old laptop which had like an i3 and intel integrated graphics, hence why i really don’t think it’s a lack of technical power.

I’m not going to be home for a week so I can’t test your theories but thank you all for your advice

 

Just check out Tigert1966 suggestion first. I have a MSI laptop and after much fussing around found it was in fact using the integrated driver for the GPU not the good one.

 

I'm surely no expert, just always considered "buy cheap, buy twice" so I always used the best CPU affordable for me to avoid issues.

As buzz said, on some systems you may need to assign RailWorks64.exe to use your dedicated GPU instead of the integrated one using Windows Display settings.

German, but you get the point

 

Is a big issue that keeps coming back. TS really needs to fix this and display the GPU-in-use in the game settings / option screen.

 

I doubt that would happen as TSC is an old game - you are wanting to make the game change the Windows Display settings.
Shame it is not possible for the user to do that - Oh! wait....

 

Nope, not at all. I wrote "display"