MSTS and SLI

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:56 pm

Has anyone had any experience of profiles for setting up MSTS to take advantage of graphics cards linked via SLI?

Alex

mousepound64 · Post by **mousepound64** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:55 am

What exactly is SLI? I've never heard of it.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:18 am

mousepound64 wrote:What exactly is SLI? I've never heard of it.

A quick google search

http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_learn.html

Cheers
Jon

lateagain · Post by **lateagain** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:19 am

Didn't I read that Otto's new box has twin graphics cards?

Geoff

decapod · Post by **decapod** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:56 am

From what I know about the MSTS graphics engine, you would be better off with a faster CPU.
MSTS does a lot of graphics processing first, before passing it to the video card.

HOWEVER - for future sims, SLI would give more of an improvement.

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:47 pm

As expected - future proofed pc but MSTS just can't take advantage of the benefits.

Good job it was bought with the forthcoming sims in mind

45002 · Post by **45002** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:38 pm

And dont forget the Spin speed of your Hard drives 7,200 rpm will slow msts

what ever GC in your pc

MARTIN

BobLatimer · Post by **BobLatimer** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:18 pm

Check this out.
http://www.alienware.com/product_detail ... KU-DEFAULT

I'll bet it will run even MSTS smoothly.

johncas · Post by **johncas** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:39 pm

Sure will

GreatEastern · Post by **GreatEastern** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:41 am

Comment about SLI
I am running SLI with two Geforce 6800 Ultras. As far as MSTS is concerned SLI makes very little difference. This is because, due to the of the age of the software, it makes very little use of modern graphics cards. In fact the best way if improving frame rates is to use a fast CPU.
Even so with the new train simulator from KUJU, it should make a lot of difference use SLI. This is because with most recent graphic intensive software you get almost twice the frame rate with SLI over a single graphics card.

GreatEastern · Post by **GreatEastern** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:52 am

Sorry an extra comment, I agree with 45002 about hard drives. A slow hard drive can also have detrimental effects on MSTS, particularly routes with a lot of detail. In fact the best to go is two SATA hard drives in RAID 0.
SATA are serial hard drives instead of the convential hard drives. Serial hard drives tranfers data at a high rate than the old parallel drives. Also RAID 0 saves half the material to one drive and the other half to the other, thereby almost double the transfer rate.
Also if you are considering SLI then you will have a motherboard capable of supporting dual matched RAMs which also speed up MSTS.

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