SDJR CTD

[dennisat]

... I'm running an nVidia GTX460 with 1Gb memory....

If you manage to get decent performance from your GTX 460 when you finally get going I'd like to hear about it.
See: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 8#p1393232.

Dennis

[chazcozens]

Hi Dennis,

I don't have any problem running most of MSTS on my GTX460, it's just this one route causing me headaches; something like Great Eastern typically returns 40-60fps according to FRAPS.

Regards,

[chazcozens]

Of course, it helps if you can type! On going to change my mem parameter I found that I had typed -mem;1024. Correcting this to -mem:1024 has fixed the problem, at least on the desktop - tbh I doubt if the laptop has the necessary memory, although I may give it a try out of interest!

Thanks for all the help guys, I have just arrived safely at Poole and saved and exited in order to come and tell you what happened. If I ever have to move MSTS again be assured I will not forget the mem parameter!

[dennisat]

... something like Great Eastern typically returns 40-60fps according to FRAPS.
Regards,

Could you give a detailed spec of your system and MSTS settings? MSTS certainly doesn't like mine - AMD Phenom 965 (4 x 3.4GHz) 8Gb memory, ASRock 890FX Deluxe 3 motherboard, Creative X-Fi Music sound card, 2 x 500Gb Western Digital disks (not fast but not slow either) and an Nvidia GTX 460. My OS is Windows 7 64 bit. Open Rails really flies on my system but MSTS is terrible - I've re-constructed an old PC to run MSTS.

Dennis

[chazcozens]

Intel E7620 2.66GHZ o/c 2.8GHz, 4Gb RAM, ASUS P5H Deluxe motherboard with onboard 7.1 sound system, 2 x Seagate Barracuda 750Gb, 7500RPM 3Gb/sec SATA HDD, Windows Vista 32bit. ANd it's this last one I think is the difference; I know, or have read of, loads of people having problems with legacy 32bit games on 64bit Windows.

MSTS settings, for the record, are 1024x768 all available settings maxed.

[chazcozens]

Correction MSTS is at 1280 x 1024, all sliders maxed.

Just driven a large section of SDJR, looks fantastic!

[dennisat]

As a matter of interest, what drivers are you using for your GTX 460 and has your copy of Vista been upgraded from DirectX 10 to 11? I have been wondering if the GTX 460 would work perfectly well under XP which could only drive it via the DirectX 9 interface. I have seen suggestions that the Nvidia driver mapping of DirectX 7 calls to DirectX 11 is where the problem is.

Dennis

[chazcozens]

Hi Dennis,

266.58 drivers, and the Directx 11 update was installed by Windows Update (and shows as as successful); i don't have any DX11 games that I'm aware of, so can't verify it works!

Regards,