Atomic Systems

Retro wrote:Hi Paul,
After a defrag I see no change. I have even had all settings on low and it seems to make very little difference on the Paddington Route. I played around with the graphic options for about 2 hours and then got fed up. The drivers guide does slow things down in its route mode. I have looked at some You Tube videos and only one seems to run without any stutter. On looking at the replies the specs show a very High End Machine similar to some of my FlightSim buddies machines for FSX. So I guess I will give up for now and wait until I can afford to get a new machine that will run FSX as well. As I only have 1 PCI express slot and one PCI slot left I would not be able to fit a new soundcard and a powerful enough videocard which would require a third slot to hold the Fan Card or another PCI express to SLI with two cards.
Why do these new games always seem to require a new machine to run properly.
Regards James

PaulH2 wrote:
Sorry that didn't work for you James.

With regard to SLI, I'd exercise caution. From what we've seen of performance in KRS so far, I don't think SLI is going to make much if any difference over a decent single video card. From what I know of FSX (I do run it, but my 5 year old P4 really isn't up to the job) it is primarily CPU limited and again I don't think SLI will help all that much (but I haven't been watching performance threads on FSX closely and I don't know whether that might change with SP2 due out soon).

Is I said earlier, I think defragmentation may be an issue with KRS, but it clearly isn't the primary cause of the stuttering, which may well be a more fundamental issue with the KRS engine, but hopefully something that will be looked into.

Before you give up, I'd try one last thing. Try turning off your virus scanner temporarly (make sure you disconnect from the internet first to be on the safe side). It could be that your virus scanner is scanning all the files as KRS opens them, thus slowing disk access and using the CPU.

Paul

thegoonden wrote:As proof, I compared the game on a single SATA-I drive, and installed on a 1TB RAID0 SATA-II array, there was no difference whatsoever beyond time taken to start a scenario.

adam3544 wrote: Interestingly, how efficient will be MSTS2 graphics engine.Adam

adam3544 wrote:

thegoonden wrote:As proof, I compared the game on a single SATA-I drive, and installed on a 1TB RAID0 SATA-II array, there was no difference whatsoever beyond time taken to start a scenario.

I must say that this information is rather revolutionary in my opinion, because it was widely accepted that the stutter problem is closely related with hard disks efficiency. If RAID0 doesn't resolve the problem (and I'm really surprised) then, the problem is closely related with the 3D engine of the game. Moreover, when I compaire the graphics of KRS with Need For Speed series (which are very smooth running with very dence graphics) than I come to the conclusion that there is not powerfull enough computer on the market to be able to overcome this problem.
Interestingly, how efficient will be MSTS2 graphics engine.

Adam

thegoonden wrote: Yup 2x500GB SATA-II Hitachi's in RAID0.
The only difference between fast drive and slow drive is basic loading time at the start of a scenario, and the how bad the "approaching town" choke gets. But no difference whatsoever in the "nodding dog" or "rubber band" effect.

My machine BUTCHERS everything else, the most modern RTS, FPS and especially racesim games, all of them at full res (some happier at 1280) with 16QxAA and 16xAiF.

Another piece of revolutionary info.....switching anisotropy off or to application controlled degrades performance terribly, honestly 25% the speed it is when set to 4x or even 16x.

thegoonden wrote:Not sure it will make a terrific difference in Rail Sim, but it is a far better card, according to two mates who recently went from high end 7nnn's to 8800GTS's.

thegoonden wrote:I've mentioned this before, but obviously folks missed it.

The stuttering is nothing to do with HD loading, there is NO HD access co-incident with the stalling, the access light shows only the usual NTFS "journalling" (I have no idea what MS call it, but on real computer operating systems, it's journalling).

So can you all PLEASE give up on the defragging and so on, it's NOT that.

As proof, I compared the game on a single SATA-I drive, and installed on a 1TB RAID0 SATA-II array, there was no difference whatsoever beyond time taken to start a scenario.

thegoonden wrote:I've mentioned this before, but obviously folks missed it.

The stuttering is nothing to do with HD loading, there is NO HD access co-incident with the stalling