Windows 7 <> Rail Simulator

[777fred]

I've recently bought a new system with the best specs that I could afford. I keep my systems for about 3 or 4 years, then get another one.

My new system has completely illiminated any stutter whatsoever. Then again, if it hadn't I'd of been gutted.

Spec:
Intel i7 2.66 - overclocked to 3.40
Vista 64bit SP1
6gb DDR3 RAM Triple channel
Nvidia GeForce 295 1792mb GPU

Will probably install Win 7 in the coming weeks. Don't know enough about it yet.

BP

That 6GB of ram would do the job of RS fine...no worrys about stuttering there!. Very nice BP.

[theokus]

I've recently bought a new system with the best specs that I could afford. I keep my systems for about 3 or 4 years, then get another one.

My new system has completely illiminated any stutter whatsoever. Then again, if it hadn't I'd of been gutted.

Spec:
Intel i7 2.66 - overclocked to 3.40
Vista 64bit SP1
6gb DDR3 RAM Triple channel
Nvidia GeForce 295 1792mb GPU

Will probably install Win 7 in the coming weeks. Don't know enough about it yet.

BP

That 6GB of ram would do the job of RS fine...no worrys about stuttering there!. Very nice BP.

You know something?
Why do we not get ONE answer from the RS-people about that stutter
When KRS was made we had no Windows 7.
Only XP or Vista.

[777fred]

Ok fine...you got me there.

[nwallace]

SATA 3?

What's the best actual datathroughput from a 7200rpm disc? I looked at 10000rpm discs but the cost was astronomical.

€ 180.... > 150 GB.

er yeah, or £90 for a Terrabyte, another £50 for a 500GB drive and then my old 400GB drive (I expect to be copying everythin g to the 1TB then putting it in my rebuilt "old" machine which I need for Scanning and Mini Disc and some games that don't like vista and can't see a VM'ed XP being too great).

believe it or not I expect to use most of that space eventually.

Just trying out a copy from the 400 which I think is a SATA 1 to the 1TB Green Power (5400 or 7200 depending on what it thinks is appropriate) ~15MB/sec

Copy from the 1TB Green Power to the 500MB Black Power around ~110 mb/sec

Considerably faster eh!, but still miles of the max speed of SATA 2

[777fred]

SATA 3?

What's the best actual datathroughput from a 7200rpm disc? I looked at 10000rpm discs but the cost was astronomical.

€ 180.... > 150 GB.

er yeah, or £90 for a Terrabyte, another £50 for a 500GB drive and then my old 400GB drive (I expect to be copying everythin g to the 1TB then putting it in my rebuilt "old" machine which I need for Scanning and Mini Disc and some games that don't like vista and can't see a VM'ed XP being too great).

believe it or not I expect to use most of that space eventually.

Just trying out a copy from the 400 which I think is a SATA 1 to the 1TB Green Power (5400 or 7200 depending on what it thinks is appropriate) ~15MB/sec

Copy from the 1TB Green Power to the 500MB Black Power around ~110 mb/sec

Considerably faster eh!, but still miles of the max speed of SATA 2

400GB old?! I only have 110GB in my computer!

[strhinonater]

Thanks Everyone for your responses

I've found out from of my one of my friends who has rail simulator for vista told me that my windows xp version would not runs as smooth and he showed me that with his new vista computer. But when Railworks 2 comes out in june i will just get the vista version because i know it will work better without the stutter and run smoothly

Also guys i've found that windows 7 32 bit runs very fast on bootcamp it's just different spec games that is the problem


Cheers

Matt

[theokus]

Thanks Everyone for your responses

I've found out from of my one of my friends who has rail simulator for vista told me that my windows xp version would not runs as smooth and he showed me that with his new vista computer. But when Railworks 2 comes out in june i will just get the vista version because i know it will work better without the stutter and run smoothly

Also guys i've found that windows 7 32 bit runs very fast on bootcamp it's just different spec games that is the problem


Cheers

Matt

Matt, and I have no doubts about Mac....
Great hardware too.

[strhinonater]

Cheers

Wish me luck come june lol


Matt

[nwallace]

400GB old?! I only have 110GB in my computer!

Yeah it's a 4 year old drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 that will have no place in the new machine once I have copied stuff across.

The cost of drives goes up so slowly compared to capacity that the 500GB drive I bought to be the system drive was originally gonig ot be smaller, but it would have cost jsut as much for a 160GB drive as the 500GB and would have performed poorer.

I do the same with all parts, thats how I ended up with XT gear shifters and rear-mech on my MTB but a Deore cassette and LX/Hone front mech.

On another topic,

Had a look at the fact sheet matt posted on the front page for Rail Works, rather low spec it claims to need, not much better than what the original needed.