What part of hardware to improve?

[Energo]

Sorry if this was already asked but I'm not a pro digging forums for info.
My question is simple enough - I have an old desktop with P5 3500 16Mb RAM and an old NVidia GeForce 5600Ti. So I'm currently at the very edge of the min specs. In fact playing is impossible. I can spend hours polishing stations and roads, working with different assets but when it comes to the "life" I get everything moving by small "jumps" :)
What better to improve right now? I think more RAM will not help me. Video card with at least 4GB of memory would help with textures but I'm not sure this is the root of the problem. Maybe processor is currently the weakest part?
Thx

[doug]

You really want an i7 that will run comfortably at 4GHz or higher, and yes, a graphics card with at least 6GB of ram.
A new cpu will likely drive a new motherboard purchase - might as well go all in and get 32GB of fast ram.
I can hear your credit card whimpering from here.

[Energo]

In fact this is a whole new PC :)

[Huperspace]

This is a joke, there is no P5 3500 and no GeForce 5600Ti. 16MB ram is from 1995. more than win Xp that pc can't run.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

This is a joke, there is no P5 3500 and no GeForce 5600Ti. 16MB ram is from 1995. more than win Xp that pc can't run.

I don't know what a P5 3500 is, but I imagine he meant a Geforce 560 ti. I have a 570 ti in my last computer. The 570 ti did fairly well, but certainly not good with Transport Fever.

[Energo]

Originally posted by Huperspace:

This is a joke, there is no P5 3500 and no GeForce 5600Ti. 16MB ram is from 1995. more than win Xp that pc can't run.

P5 3,5 Ghz I mean and yes not 16Mb but 16GB + 560ti, sorry :)
In fact this does not change anything - the main question is what to upgrade forst. But I see the comp is already too old for games.

[lemming3k]

Yep, you are in new system town if you want to play anything modern. CPU is key for this game but others are usually GPU based.
Prices are still up right now with the pandemic and semiconductor shortage as well.

[Dan]

My experience suggests in this game that having more than 16GB of RAM is the first priority since the game can easily use more than 10GB of RAM as you go further into a map and start using a few mods. I have a game in the mid 1980's and it is already using 12GB+ OF RAM on its own.

Next up is the CPU where GHz and just raw grunt is the priority since the game is not the best at making use of multicores and as your town and cargo quantity goes up the game quickly starts chugging.

Lastly is GPU since the game isn't that taxing on the GPU and even if it is for your GPU you can turn down the graphical settings, you can't turn down the demands on the RAM or the CPU.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Energo:

Originally posted by Huperspace:

This is a joke, there is no P5 3500 and no GeForce 5600Ti. 16MB ram is from 1995. more than win Xp that pc can't run.

P5 3,5 Ghz I mean and yes not 16Mb but 16GB + 560ti, sorry :)
In fact this does not change anything - the main question is what to upgrade forst. But I see the comp is already too old for games.

Getting the names right does actually change the priority of what to upgrade. If you truly had 16mb of RAM, any sane person would've told you to upgrade that first. A Geforce 5600 Ti does not exist, but people's minds might go directly to the Geforce 5600, and someone less experienced and/or who can't google the moment at the moment would probably think it's an early/mid 00s GPU, as the 5000 series GPUs were. Third, personally when you said "P5", considering what you said immediately after that, I thought you had a Pentium D of some kind. Just something to consider in the future.