Railworks & Windows 7

[Ghosttrain666]

Hi

I have found a problem with Win7 and RW. It´s a graphics problem, so maybe it´s a driverproblem. Several places where I have made open sea ( oceans, bays and so on ) and I have used more than one "watermarker", I from time to time have a problem which looks like the water is shown vertical instead of horizontal. I can drive through this places whith my train, and then it´s gone. Also when I´m working in the routeeditor and Google Earth runs in the background, I have expirienced something which looks like snow on the screen. This does not disappear when closing down RW and Google Earth. I must reboot my PC before it´s gone.

The possitive thing are that my FPS has increased from around the 45 ( Win XP ) to about 60 as the absolute lowest framerate whith highest resolution and all sliders set to the absolute best they can co.

Computer Spec: MB: Asus Rampage Extreme II, CPU: Intel CoreI7 950, 12 GB Ram, GP: Asus EN285 GTX. OS: Win7 PRO Dk 64 bit.

I hope you can use this information.

[keber]

I made an upgrad from Vista to Windows 7 and everything worked as in Vista, including RW. I didn't noticed any speed improvements for RW, but my system is very fast, so difference between very smooth and very smooth is not noticeable. I don't use FPS-meter, just visual opinion.

[g0fthick]

(of course the switch from 32-64bit systems can complicate this a little).

With my gaming setups I made the switch to 64 bit Vista and XP three years ago never had any complications.

It varies from user to user and what each user is using their OS for. A good friend of mine struggled for a while as some of his 3D applications had no relevant drivers available, which caused some very odd effects that made his life a living nightmare.

[djt01]

(of course the switch from 32-64bit systems can complicate this a little).

With my gaming setups I made the switch to 64 bit Vista and XP three years ago never had any complications.

It varies from user to user and what each user is using their OS for. A good friend of mine struggled for a while as some of his 3D applications had no relevant drivers available, which caused some very odd effects that made his life a living nightmare.

I should have emphasized the mention of “gaming setups”.

With XP/Pro 64-bit and spotty driver support I was skeptical in the beginning to use 64 bit Vista for anything else but gaming, mission critical applications were out of the question. Much to my surprise 64 bit driver support took right off with Vista and drivers matured fast. Some of this even rubbed off on XP/Pro 64-bit.

Now I have no hesitation recommending 64 bit Vista or Windows 7.

[Dougjuk]

Hi all,

Just done the big upgrade and built and I7 920 setup. Installed windows 7 64bit ok and got RW working a treat. However, when trying to install the legacy stuff I get an error saying that msvcr71.dll is missing and it stops so i cannot install the class 66 or wagon pack.

MS are hopeless, they dont even recognise my product key so want payment for support.

Anyone come across this before.

All the best

Doug

[SMALLACTIONMONK]

Hi all,

Just done the big upgrade and built and I7 920 setup. Installed windows 7 64bit ok and got RW working a treat. However, when trying to install the legacy stuff I get an error saying that msvcr71.dll is missing and it stops so i cannot install the class 66 or wagon pack.

MS are hopeless, they dont even recognise my product key so want payment for support.

Anyone come across this before.

All the best

Doug

This might help.

http://i.justrealized.com/2009/05/16/ho ... n-windows/

[Dougjuk]

Hi,

great stuff worked a treat.

Many thanks

Doug

[Maxway]

FWIW

I backed up RW in XP 32bit and then installed the backup into Windows 7 64 bit and everything is fine.

Glenn.

[dean1986]

Do you see any improvement going from 32 bit to 64?

Dean

[Dougjuk]

Hi,

Do you see any improvement going from 32 bit to 64?

Dean

Cannot really say, so much of an upgrade in hardware also. Seems to be very nice tho !

All the best

Doug

[Maxway]

Re: improvemwnt under 64bit OS

My understanding is that RW is a 32bit application and while it runs perfectly in Windows 7 64bit there is no performance gain since the program is not optimised for a 64bit operating system.

I think there may have been a slight increase in performance going from XP to Windows 7 64bit ( on the same hardware.) This may be down to the fact that Windows 7 makes better use of a multi core CPU than XP and the 64bit operating system allows Windows to utilise the full amount of memory installed rather than the 3 and a bit GB available under a 32bit operating system.

Glenn.

[darren10000]

Hi All

I've just installed Windows 7 ultimate and RW works at 80-90 fps which is about 40% faster than it was!!! Also strangely on the system properties you have the windows experience rating and both my Processor and Ram ratings have gone from 5.6 to 7.1...very strange.

Darren
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