I've seen this reported in a few places, but it seems there is an large performance drop when there are a lot of trains parked at San Francisco staiton, and you are there. I get 48 locked everywhere on the route and haven't seen my FPS dip at all, except there when I get about 15FPS. Not sure if much can be done because of service mode services, but this is a very large performance drop even on very good computers. Anyone have any recommendations for dealing with this? I get very good performance with my current settings everywhere else except there. Specs in case anyone asks: Win 10 i7-7820HK @ 4.1GHz GTX 1070 16GB of RAM 860 Evo SSD
Yes, I get very poor performance at SF station as well...I think it is largely due to the amount of locos/consists on screen as you will always get a frame drop when passing a train as well. SF station usually has about 3-4+ trains parked at any one time
I suspect there is something dragging FPS down on the passenger consists as each one causes a frame rate drop. It becomes particularly bad at San Fran as there are so many of them in one place. Hopefully the fix will address the actual issue, rather than simply reduce the number of standing consists.
Matt has said they are aware of the frame rate drops at San Fran station and they are looking into how they can fix it.
I really hope they don’t take away trains it really ruins immersion. Nec needs freight back in sidings.
TrainSim-Matt please don’t remove any Trains at San Francisco Station, it’s the wrong way to fixed bad frame rates. On Console there is no problem with it.
Nec still has freight on the route. Took a train from mew rochelle to newark at night. There are cars in the bronx siding near the highway along with some engines
I think he meant Sunnyside yard which used to be full on Amfleets - till that patch over a year ago that destroyed large parts of NEC F for: Sunnyside Yard the swamp/marsh Signalling Tunnel speed limits
Hope its not down to removing rolling stock. I've also been at san fran when there were atleast 8 or 9 servicing trains, it was possibly the worst frames I've ever had in TSW. when im all alone on a line with the odd train or 2 passing for an hour... it sucks Hope there are other ways, please remove people and cars etc at will if its an option for the future - just not the trains
Just speculation, but maybe it's because the interior for everything is rendered, and the people sitting in their seats. When it kills the framerate for almost everyone (console, too?) maybe a "interior distant render"-slider could be a fitting approach.
I'm on PS4 and frame rate at San Francisco with more than 4 parked trains is very bad when you go through trains, approaching the station or walking on the platform. On console they already removed a lot of people in general, according to PC videos I saw on YouTube.
The moment the FPS went down (like the last 200 meters) I turned off the cab light and the performance went on much better imediately, so maybe shadow-related?
I've never run with the cab light on and don't get drop in frames. Partially why I was confused about people talking about frame drops.