180F is just over 80C- you wouldn't want it much warmer but it should be quite tolerable for a CPU.
Ooh- sale in Steam! If you're going to get something now's a good time. I thought I vaguely remembered one for the Jubilee and it would be odd...
I forgot that the S&C already includes a Stanier Jubilee (any scenarios for it? I don't recall) and Fowler(?) 4F like the one in the Academy....
Indeed- and the ride was quite terrible by all accounts.
Riviera in the '50s is a good recommendation (a good stretch of main line and some nice kettles which you can of course run on other routes). If...
It'd be good to see as part of another route, Worcester to Birmingham maybe, but the town line is just a long siding with a complete journey time...
Assuming you mean the HST power car rather than Warship... It was the guard's compartment and, believe it or not, an auxiliary driving cab....
Oodles. Search for PTG Rail who takes a slightly pedantic approach but that's probably just what you're looking for. Matt Peddlesden (of...
It might drag out the initial startup a little when TS checks in with Steam but not initialising a scenario. I got started on an i3 based laptop...
There's a lot to be said for having a PC that you can put away when it's not in use but there are wireless peripherals, networking systems and...
Good advice for desktop or laptop. You can get away with integrated graphics (I got started in TS with an i3 laptop, and depending on the route,...
Absolutely. Desktop systems are usually (though not invariably) put together from standard components. There are probably fewer laptop...
Vega 8 is AMD's integrated graphics system. It's considerably better than Intel's but probably still no substitute for a GPU. That said there's...
It might not be worth adding a GPU but could benefit from a once over. You can look for yourself to see if it's dusty. Thermal compound between...
The integrated graphics solution is far from ideal- not good in the first place and it will use system RAM so some of that 6GB will be effectively...
TS makes poor use of multi-core processors so an i3 with a higher clock speed might be cheaper and better. Core for core it's nip and tuck...
Have you got it running full screen or windowed? Run in a borderless window at full screen resolution TS will still fill the screen but the Start...
Er... No! They were introduced specifically to take over top-link express services on the ECML from steam (making them very unpopular at first)....
Further to this I just had a reply to some questions I asked SSS which included the information that "the sale will remain on until Friday 15".
It'd be an ambitious first step but Flying Scotsman is the most famous locomotive in the world and toured the USA. Everybody's heard of her and a...
Been having a look at Stainmore from Steam Sounds Supreme this weekend and I'm very impressed so far. Although I like driving a kettle now and...
I was sure I'd read about troughs but can't find the reference now. Certainly having the catenary as far away from the water cranes as you can...
When the Woodhead Line was electrified steam trains still ran and, believe it or not, there were water troughs for them. The catenary was hung as...
I have TS on the system drive and TSW on the data drive because I knew there wouldn't be room on C: for it. I've not actually played TSW much...
The Metro was still being built when I moved to the Northeast and much attention was being paid to the new infrastructure for it (tunnels under...
Yay- I was useful!
Before you take the nuclear option try deleting playerprofile.bin from your Railworks folder. It's possible that TS is attempting to run using...
Unticking a DLC will remove it from only the system you are using.
This sounds like the problem I had with TS on a laptop which started seemingly out of the blue a couple of years ago. I found that setting it to...
Second the recommendations to get 16GB of RAM and while it is likely to be one of the few things you can upgrade it may be worth trying to find...
Well I have TS running at QHD so that ain't right. Is the system displaying at 4K otherwise?
Actually, to correct my own post, rheostatic and regenerative braking aren't the same thing. Both work as described using the traction motors to...
Yes- a.k.a. regenerative braking. The traction motors effectively become generators and the effort it takes to turn them is what slows the train....
Obvious question but bears asking- is the handbrake on? It's easy to put it on unnoticed by catching the slash key.
The pump car is a bit of a novelty and free from the Steam store. It'd help to know what you're interested in.
It would help if you described your laptop spec's. You can use the game settings to turn some graphic effects down or off but some systems just...
My guess is things like how many messages you post, likes you get, helpfulness ratings etc., are added up and some sort of level calculated. The...
A particularly high standard this week- congratulations to Blacknred81. When I suggested this as a topic I said reproduce a photo' or film still...
Is there some good reason why 21:9 is not written as 7:3?
Aah- that does seem likely.
There has been a problem on some systems running the 64 bit .exe- it somehow overlooks any discrete GPU (particularly any NVidea GPU though I...
Can you put that in context? Pardon me for being a little hard of thinking but I don't know what you mean by that. Have you tried running the 32...
Can't vouch for the site but, presuming the key is legit', it will get you the TS2020 routes bundle with the latest version of the core program....
Favourite MU, indeed my favourite train to drive, is the Class 101 probably because it's the only train I've driven IRL and the first thing I...
What he said. Something I forgot to mention but you may have gathered reading that is that the problem with TS overlooking GPUs occurs with the...
These days yes. You may have heard talk of track circuits. No- sections could be miles long. One on the Settle-Carlisle was 11 miles IIRC and...
Check that TS is using the GPU (presumably you have one) rather than the CPU's integrated graphics. This can be a problem particularly with...
Welcome back.
Managed now- third time lucky.
Bloody thing keeps kicking me back to the start of the survey.
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