Hello everyone,
My computer was recently destroyed, and I have pulled an old one out of storage to use until I get the good one fixed. The problem is, Simutrans lags horribly, even on small maps with no trees and only a few vehicles. I am getting an FPS reading of ~15 constantly. My system specs are a Pentium III processor at 0.5 GHz, 384MB of RAM, and about 30GB of hard drive space.. I am running Windows XP SP3, using Simutrans version 102.2 with pak128 and no additional addons.
So, is my system inadequate to handle the game? Is there something else I can do to fix the lag problem?
Thanks in advance,
Frank
Perhaps the cpu speed is a little bit slow for Simutrans but there's at least a possible solution to run the game in old computers. I've found this in
the archive (http://archive.forum.simutrans.com/topic/06524.0/index.html)
Also, pak128 is one of the more demanding graphic sets, due to the large size of the images. You could try if a smaller set (pak96.comic, pak64) work better on this computer.
I used pak64 successfully on an old 400Mhz CPU/128MB ram computer, but pak128 would not work there.
Ithink the answer is really to go for 10 frames per second, best written in simuconf.tab. On my netbook, which has a 600MHz CPU pak64 run just fine, so you might be a tiny bit on the slow side.
I changed the setting to 10 frames, and pak128 is working reasonably well so long as I do not load the map up with hundreds of convos. Pak64 works great, but both are using 99% of CPU power at all times, and about half my RAM.
At least you can shorten the time until you have a new PC a bit, now that Simutrans runs somewhat well on the old PC :)