Coloured Pixels On The Ground

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  1. penninedmu#9526

    penninedmu#9526 New Member

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    PXL_20241214_181944722.MP~2.jpg Not sure why but I keep getting coloured pixels that look like the ones in the photo I'm about to attach. This only seems to be affecting my London to Peterborough route
     
  2. Spikee1975

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    This is a hardware issue and/or lack of video RAM.

    What's your PC specs?
     
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    I've got 464GB with about 10GB left. It probably is that that's the issue because my game would always crash at Redruth on the Cornish Mainline until I uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'd get an "in page error" so knowing it, these coloured pixels are also probably due to a lack of storage. It's playable, just kinda annoying haha
     
  4. Spikee1975

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    Not storage - graphics card VRAM. What you got?

    Storage is also critical - there needs to be space for the cache files too. If Windows marks the drive as Red, you need to free up space - but the effect would only be stuttering not artefacts as the slow pagefile would be used then.

    Note I'm supposing you have checked the game files first via Steam - but these colours definitely point to your graphics card being overloaded.

    If you're seeing flat coloured squares (non-perspective) then you can kiss your graphics card goodbye.
     
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    I'll have to have a look after my tea I'm not quite sure
     
  6. Spikee1975

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    Tea is important, no problem.

    Should look like this (except for the trees which are from ArmstrongPowerhouse on my end)
    2024-12-14 20_14_10-Train Simulator (x64).png
     
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    penninedmu#9526 New Member

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    I miss it looking like that
    I found out what my graphics card is called I think. Intel(R) UHD Graphics.


    It's strange how it only seems to happen to my ECML South route and on quick drive it works fine it's just my scenarios I've made where it looks odd. After finding out what graphics card I have do you think that my current one is inadequate to run it?
     
  8. Spikee1975

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    I'm afraid yes. You should get a dedicated graphics card. The intel chips are not made for 3D games. AMD and Nvidia are.
     
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    penninedmu#9526 New Member

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    I'll take note of that and make sure I can get one of those once I can afford it lmao, thanks very much for your help. At least it's still playable and I can drive trains on it I'll just have to put up with strange colours on the ground haha
     
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