Rail Simulator - Minimum Specs

[5872]

Sorry - From UKTS forum kujuadam.

requirements
Operating System: Windows XP with latest service pack installed / Windows Vista
CPU: XP - Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 1.7 GHz or equivalent; Vista - Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 2.6 GHz or equivalent
RAM: 512 MB
Video Card: 64MB DirectX 9.0c compliant video card, Pixel shader 2.0 and above. (AGP and PCIe only)
Sound Card: - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Hard Drive Space: 4.5 GB of space is required to install the game

In order to play the game as intended, your computer should match or exceed the following recommended system specifications:
Operating system: Windows XP with latest service pack installed / Windows Vista
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 3.0 GHz or equivalent
RAM: 1.0GB
Video Card: 256MB DirectX 9.0c compliant video card, Pixel shader 3.0 and above. (AGP and PCIe only)
Sound card: Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series from Creative Labs
Hard Drive space: 4.5 GB of space is required to install the game.


Sorry.

 

[mbonwick]

Why Sorry?

 

[Techniquest]

Ta for that 5872, looks like my machine will need beefing up to play KRS! Dreadful.

 

[Richard]

Same here i think.

 

[mbonwick]

i'd be better off getting a new PC, I think

 

[Mintona]

Me too!

Nah, I think I should be fine. Just!

 

[1D53]

I'm fine. Mind you I bloody should be only having this PC 18 months!

 

[DescendingSadly]

AMD Athlon 1800MHz, 1GB RAM, Nvidia GEforce 7600GS, 200GB HDD

runs perfectly fine on medium-high settings....

 

[ChrisCooper]

Ah, my 4 year old heap will just meet the recomended specs, since I've got it slightly overclocked (2.8ghz to just over 3). Only thing below is the sound card, I'm still using a very old (came with the computer before this) sound blaster live. If the sound is good enough for this to be a problem though, it will be worth getting a new one (not like they are expensive, or have compatability problems). Still, can see I'll need to upgrade one of these days, probably be the graphics card that does it since I've got about the best AGP card you can get, and my computer doesn't have PCI-E.

 

[class 313]

KRS works on 1.7 Pixel Shader with options mostly medium at pretty good FPS.

 

[dennis63uk]

Need a new PC here for me to run it although this PC is only 9 months old but not fast enough. Just bought KRS as well today runs to slow here.

 

[devon_metro]

KRS works on 1.7 Pixel Shader with options mostly medium at pretty good FPS.

Thats good to know Mr Loader

I have 2.0 :-P

 

[D306]

will have to get more RAM at Christmas, but other than that, it'll run perfectly fine.

 

[5872]

will have to get more RAM at Christmas, but other than that, it'll run perfectly fine.

Ive got 512 Ram and it works fine....

 

[D306]

Ive got 512 Ram and it works fine....

but still, I'm getting more RAM anyway, as new games need more RAM

 

[dennis63uk]

How do you alter pixel shading on a NVidia 7300gt does anyone know please. Running 256mb on graphics card as still to slow to run KRS even with 512mb memory in processor is 1.7ghz AMD processor

 

[devon_metro]

Well 1.7Ghz is the Minumum. Your graphics card won't be the problem, its the lack of processing power.

 

[D306]

finally got my copy. Fred, what you said about 512 being ok, well, it isn't on my computer. At least i'm getting more RAM soon

 

[Coxster]

finally got my copy. Fred, what you said about 512 being ok, well, it isn't on my computer. At least i'm getting more RAM soon

512 is the minimum.

 

[D306]

I know, thats why i'm getting more RAM anyway. I get a maximum of 14 FPS, and it's very stuttery.

 

[jjedmunds]

My whole PC which I recently made runs at a steady 100fps.

Athlon x64 5600, 2 gig ram, ATI x1950 256mb graphics and 500gb SATA hard drive withan SATA DVD dual layer writer.

That is with all settings set to max and 1600x1200 settings.

This whole set up including a new case set me back less than £300.

 

[richa2002]

Must be processor intensive by the looks of things then. I have an ATI X1950 Pro 512Mb and would never in a million years get 100FPS on max settings. Have 1.5gb RAM and a 3Ghz processor too...

 

[jjedmunds]

The Athlon 5600 is only a dual 2.8ghz processor so a single core 3ghz (excluding celerons as they are attrocious processors) should cope ok.

I know it is very memory intensive I have a matched pair of 1gig sticks of Kingston 1GB DDR2 667MHz/PC2-5300 Ram.

Is your x1950pro an AGP or PCI-E as mine is a PCI-E as mine is just a 256mb x1950 pro as well.

But then again I have my PC totally tunes with no running processes in the background except for the needed windows apps.

I have been a PC engineer for 22 years now and know which processes are needed and which arent, it may be something as simple as tuning the startup of the PC if your spec is similar to mine.

I have found that running this on a pc3200 ram system with an x1950pro AGP card it slows considerably down to about 50/55 fps average.

Hope this helps
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PS Richard

Great pics on the web site, very impressive!

 

[heart-of-wessex]

I cant work my copy ATM, says an error has occured,

But it does mention that this will happen if you dont have a Nvidiaor some other graphics card. I still have the standard Intel GV in mine, drivers updated and that but wont work anyway.

 

[jjedmunds]

Yes Heart Of Wessex you appear to have on board graphics and the game wont run without a graphics card rather than on board graphics.

You will need to get the PC opened up to see if it has an AGP or PCI-E graphics port on the motherboard, if it does not then it wont be able to run at all, but if it does then a £30 card will work if thats all you could afford or check ebay for a second hand one.

If it does have a port its a matter of 2 minutes work to install a graphics card.

Hope this helps.

JJ, Chard Somerset

 

[Demps]

There is no point in getting this game unless you can run everything on fun, as the routes arnt all there, and other minimal problems, its the graphics which make the game. Well thats what i think.

 

[Reddog785]

Ugh, modern game specs disgust me! this rusty old banger of mine (referring to my PC) was only made in 2005 and won't work with it at all! Guess I'll be ordering a completely new PC for Christmas...:-x