cjakeman, on 27 March 2013 - 02:37 PM, said:
"What other improvements would a high spec graphics card enable Open Rails to give me - straight away and perhaps also in the future?"
Thanks,
How much does image quality matter to you?
You'll see plenty of posts where OpenRail users claim they are seeing 100+ fps. Then when you finally see screen shots they are usually taken at some low resolution with low image quality settings (AA/AF) on some low detail route that doesn't look much better than the default garbage that came with MSTS.
Good performance (a consistent 60 fps with v-sync is the ideal) with super-sampling AA enabled running at least 1920x1080 resolution would be the target.
I'm currently running OpenRails along with about a dozen other sims on the three machines listed below.
If you are mainly running older games/sims that use DirectX 9 I'd stay away from AMD. I've never been able to get close to the image quality I'm getting with my Nvidia GPU's with the AMD 7970 I'm running in one machine with OpenRails or TS2013.
Here are some screen shots (post #29) taken with a six core i7 and a GTX 680 -
http://www.elvastowe...cs/page__st__20
Intel Core i7-3770K, ASUS P8Z77-I DELUXE/WD, G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB DDR3 1600, GeForce GTX 680, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD/Windows 8 Pro 64, Samsung 840 Pro 256GB – Games/Programs, SILVERSTONE Sugo Series SST-SG08B w/600W PSU
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition w/Corsair H100, ASUS Rampage III Extreme,Mushkin Enhanced Redline 12GB DDR3 1600, GeForce GTX 680, Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD/Windows 8 Pro 64, Samsung 840 Pro 256GB - Games/Programs, Corsair AX1200, Corsair 800D
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition w/Corsair H100, ASUS Rampage III Gene, Mushkin Redline Ascent 6GB DDR3 1600, AMD 7970, Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD/Windows 8 Pro 64, Samsung 830 Series 256GB - Games/Programs, Corsair AX850, Corsair 650D