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System requirements

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

Re: System requirements

Reply #1 –
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

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I recommend to you to change in the file simuconf.tab the value in the line frames_per_second = 25. Reduce it to 15 or even 10 should help you to playing well.
I had the same Problem on my PII-400 machine and with 10 FPS Simutrans is working fine.

Re: System requirements

Reply #2 –
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.

Re: System requirements

Reply #3 –
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.

Re: System requirements

Reply #4 –
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.
 

Re: System requirements

Reply #5 –
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 :)