Hi all, my current little Dell Desktop after many years of good service has finally died and refuses to turn on. This occurrence has kicked me up the butt and made me realise I need a new PC. My old Dell machine can not handle Windows 11 so thought why not upgrade to :- https://bedrock-computers.co.uk/pro...ENz-LE3K5aXI20rD4od5CB-8i7eiUrPEaApfDEALw_wcB Not sure if any of you guys have dealt with this company, or know how good their machines are but would be keen and open to any feedback good or bad you may have with my possible choice of machine going forward. Cheers all. [EDIT] Specification: ASUS RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card / GPU Intel Core i5 13400F 4.6GHz Processor / CPU (10% faster than the i9 11900 in overall performance) 32GB Corsair 3200MHz DDR4 Memory / RAM Asus B760 LGA 1700 14th Gen Gaming Motherboard ADATA Legend 800 1TB m.2 SSD with Windows 11 Installed, Plug & Play 1TB WD Blue Secondary Hard Drive / HDD VIDA GP650 80plus Bronze Power Supply / PSU USB Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Dongle included Vida Akira Cube Mid Tower tempered glass Gaming Case with x4 Infinity ARGB fans
That's quite a bit above my specs, except I have a 3070 graphics card which according to Reddit is a bit better than a 4060. However, TSC is not so dependant on the graphics card - so I would say this rig would do just fine for quite a few years.
That should run it with no problems. I have an Intel i5 10600K CPU and an Asus RTX 3060 TI graphics card, Windows 11, and 16 GB of RAM. I can run TSC with all graphics settings at maximum. I have TSC installed on a Samsung M2 SSD 990 Pro 4 TB and virtually get no stutters.
I have an extra 2TB SSD I added into my stack. I certainly do not regret it with the sheer amount of TSC product I have loaded. Just buy it later and add internally to your rig. I am sure there will be space and a motherboard connection available.
I thought TSC was dependant on the game using the RAM on the Graphics card? Or am I misunderstanding how important it is
Just about all the games that I play, even new ones, seem to use the graphics card more than anything else, including the CPU. The CPU just seems to be idling along while the graphics card takes the load. Mine gets up to a temp of, say, 65C while playing games.
I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 5600, 1070ti, 16GB RAM to a Ryzen 7 5700X, RX 9070, 32GB RAM and can barely tell the difference in performance. The game is hamstrung by it's engine.
I'd increase storage, and not use HDDs. The only time I'd use a HDD these days is in very large mass storage, and only then in a RAID with redundancy. 2TB 2.5" SSDs are pretty cheap these days. Crucial do one for around £100.
I went from an SSD to an NVMe. I can play new releases on Gamepass flawlessly, my assumption is that TrainSim is not remotely optimised for modern hardware which is no surprise given it's age.
Cheers for that advice, I already have a 2TB SSD, with TSC already installed, which i will transfer from my old machine. I can fire this in to the new machine & replace the HDD.
I have a (laptop) Ryzen 9 6900HS with RX 6700S and my game also performs about as well as the desktop purchased 8 years prior. Initially I tried to analyse and what I discovered is that it shows 16 logical processors and TSC mostly uses one. And a little. So I normally have CPU at 7-8% with TSC. It can use 75% GPU, so. That is supported by the discovery that some scenarios do perform better frame-wise but others are slower (compared back when I had both). I even have slightly more AA (no SS), suggesting graphics are slightly better, CPU slightly slower. I just had a Soldier Summit end to end and it started with 25fps rising to 29fps by the end. Pausing the game at any location would instantly result in declaring 60fps. Thus the scenario was simulation capped. Steve posted about a year ago, the game is essentially single core in that it calculates a frame then renders it, before moving on to the next frame. Decoupling that would have been a casual 90% performance bump (and, increasing CPU from 6% to near 12%, meaning it wouldn't fry it). Even on my old PC I got into the habit of running no-AI photo sessions for similar reasons, I just didn't know. My conclusion is that TSC does prefer single core performance, and it has Intel and Nvidia logos on its load screen for a reason. Also, many (but far from all!) routes have bogus (black) distant rendering with ATI-AMD cards, workaround is foggy weather.
Lot’s of good advice here. Nothing to add really OTHER than if you just plug your old TSC harddisc in to your new pc, you might need to reinstall a few things if they were bought outside of Steam, depending on copy protection methods. Oh, and do make a backup of your railworks folder if you have any mods, as Steam might do a file verification.
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