Windows 10 monitor resolution

[peterhayes]

SF
Not that I know of - hadn't realized it was incompat with Windows 10.
We can only hope that they upgrade the product for Win 10 - especially with the new win 10 mobos coming out!
Is there any reason why you are not using a discrete graphics card - is there one installed?
pH

[StrategyFirst]

No, I don't have a discrete GPU, just an internal one. I'm looking to buy a GTX 750, though.

[peterhayes]

SF
Good choice make sure you get the 750TI 2GB VRAM -Maxwelll variant - it doesn't need extra power from the psu but uses the mobo power in the PCIe slot.
Nice card.
pH

[StrategyFirst]

SF
Good choice make sure you get the 750TI 2GB VRAM -Maxwelll variant - it doesn't need extra power from the psu but uses the mobo power in the PCIe slot.
Nice card.
pH

That's the exact one I was thinking of getting! Psychic...

Is it the best value for the money, for sure?

[peterhayes]

Its a good middle of the road card - the next one up is the GTX960 (a bit pricier), but that requires power from the psu and I don't know your psu wattage.
I use a GTX 750TI and even with the cpu @ 3.2GHz gives reasonable performance in TS2015 with SSAA @ 2 x 2.
IMO the 750TI is a good choice!
Regards
pH

[StrategyFirst]

How many FPS are you getting currently? I've got 4.1GHz for my current processors, so I just want to kind of figure out how much more smooth my game will run.

P.S., check out some of my OLD videos on my channel. My PC sucked back then, with like 10 FPS! XD

[peterhayes]

SF
I never look at frame rates. The frame rates that you see are what the cpu has delivered to the video card which then processes and interpolates the data it receives and displays it on the monitor.

That fps figure is only a guide it is NOT the number of frames actually being displayed on the monitor (although it can be). A better value (extremely difficult to measure live can use NVidia FCAT Frame Capture Analysis Tool) is the frame dwell times and you are aiming for 99+% of all frames to have a dwell time of 20 milliseconds and no frame dwell time over 50 milliseconds. The 20 ms figure represents a frame rate of 50 fps at the monitor level (not 50 fps displayed by TS2015, FRAPS or bandicam which is at the cpu/gpu level).

On some routes and scenarios my Bandicam FPS is displayed as 20 fps but the video playback is smooth with very few stutters - others its around 40 - 60 on a 144Hz Gsync Monitor again smooth with only known tile boundary stutters.

My advice forget fps but concentrate on smooth, jagged free, stutter free (almost) playback on your monitor. FPS is only a guide to show if something is amiss so you can have 20 fps which is smooth (great) and 60 fps which is full of stuttering (Oops) depending on your settings and hardware. So if you are getting 60 fps with stuttering - something is not quite right with your set up and you may need to tweak a setting or two and your hardware seems adequate. However, on the other hand if say you see 20fps with stuttering you would suspect that your hardware as well as drivers, and software are possibly not optimal.
Regards
pH

[StrategyFirst]

Other than disabling procedural flora, is there any way to keep Railworks from randomly jumping down to 10 FPS when loading scenery?

[peterhayes]

Try turning off shadows and lowering water, turn off Bloom and the Lensflare setting.
May help.
pH

[StrategyFirst]

Try turning off shadows and lowering water, turn off Bloom and the Lensflare setting.
May help.
pH

Oh, yeah. Already did shadowing (derpedy-derp). I didn't understand, however, why lens flare uses up quite a bit...

[peterhayes]

SF
Lens flare may not have much impact on its own but it was worth a try to reduce the load on your system to see if you get better frame rates ie smoothness.
pH