Graphics help?!

[mattcase135]

So i recently got a new PC and I've not played this game properly on it yet. Had a not so good PC before this one and racked up hundreds of hours of gameplay on that PC but lag etc were bad...

Went to play the other day and i hadn't touched any of the settings yet but while i was moving around the world and the very short time i drove a train there was what i can only describe as "clipping" across my screen. You know like when you're watching digital TV and the signal is weak and you get those pixel like boxes on the screen.

My PC i have now has an Nvidia GTX 1070 card, Intel i5, 16GB RAM, just incase any of that influences the best settings to use to eradicate the "clipping" etc

[=^.^= Bigshow]

its always going to hang when it loads new areas.....that said, on the anti aliasing, i have mine set to the 4th setting from the top, high on shadows, detail and water, and i think i have dynamic clouds, and ambient oscillation. you can slide the foliage density up as desired depending on how much it bogs you down. and this is coming from someone running a 3600 R5, 48gb of ram, and a GTX1060 3gb. also if youre having problems with you fans running at 100% in menus and crashing when looking through the scenarios, then go into nvidia control panel, click on manage 3d settings, and under that, click on the tab that says program settings, and add train sim from your steam folder. then scroll down to where it says background application MAX frame rate, and set it to 30fps, and then scroll down to where is says MAX frame rate, and set it to 60. you might not have to do this, but i found it helps mine out a good bit. good luck, and as squirrel would say, "happy training" XD

[mojo_musica]

Make sure you have the latest Nvidia drivers installed, ONLY from the Nvidia website. GeForce Experience is useful to install, as you can set it to tell you when a new driver is available.
Getting the GFX settings right is trial and error, plus they also rely on the rest of your PC being at the same level as your GFX card, especially the drive you have TS installed on. New NVme and SSD drives perform much better than hard drives.
Make sure that there is nothing running in the background that is eating CPU cycles like a browser.
Enable the Steam frame counter and keep an eye on it when testing new settings to see the effect in real time.
I have a GTX 1060 6Gb and Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, and it runs quite happily at 40 - 60 fps with most GFX settings on high, it will dip in areas with large amounts of detail, but nothing that interferes with play.
Playing around with the settings should get you to the sweet spot for eye-candy versus frame rate, but the game is quite old and it will never be comparable to today's DX12 AAA games in terms of GFX.

[OldAlaskaGuy]

Add TS to your NVIDIA control panel. You may be using OBG by default. Open NVIDIA control panel / Manage 3D settings / program settings / click Show only programs found on this computer / search for Railworks64.exe and Railworks.exe to add. Do this for all other game .exe.

[Felix.AVMP]

Originally posted by mattcase135:

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Went to play the other day and i hadn't touched any of the settings yet but while i was moving around the world and the very short time i drove a train there was what i can only describe as "clipping" across my screen. You know like when you're watching digital TV and the signal is weak and you get those pixel like boxes on the screen.
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Try different output on your graphics and/or different input on your display, and also, different cable might not hurt.
If is really looks like DVB distorsion, there is something interfering with the picture transmission.

Also, there is a solid possibility, that something is dying in your system's GPU (which, given the age of GTX 1070 and its probable past, if is was bought as used, is not very surprising).

Edit: you can try something else - unless your CPU is one of those rare i5s without IGP, you can to hook up your display into the IGP graphics output (yes, it will be painfully slow, but it will be very quickly obvious, if your problem is GPU- or display- related).

[davidyork9]

I have to say that since i discovered how to update the graphics each months Ive had much better performance. I can tell from the game when it's time to check GeForce lol