"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
06/16/2018 at 21:54 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
06/16/2018 at 21:54 • Filed to: None | 1
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Train Sim World, via Steam. I didn’t purchase it before because I thought my system might be a bit weak (i7-3770, GTX 670), but for a little while the price is down from $39.99 to $9.19, so I thought I’d take a chance. Surprisingly it doesn’t run too bad on this old computer; I’m getting frame rates in the 35-45 FPS range most of the time, and according to the color-coded FPS indicator and my hands-on experience, it’s quite playable. I haven’t tweaked any settings, just running the defaults from when it was installed, and they’re fairly high.
Not too shabby, especially given the sub-$10 price.
I should be upgrading the Hackintosh side of this computer next week to High Sierra, and this means I’ll be able to use newer/better/faster/cheaper video cards than the GTX 980 Ti which was the best I could install under El Capitan. I think I can get a decent 6GB GTX 1060 new for less than the price of a used 980 Ti, with the only trade-off possibly being slightly diminished performance on the Mac side, but it’s such a screamer as-is that I don’t think I’m really going to notice the difference.
Shift24
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/16/2018 at 22:10 |
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If this isn’t the first thing you do, you have wasted your money
KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> Shift24
06/16/2018 at 22:14 |
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DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/16/2018 at 22:35 |
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How much is the 980 Ti? I ask, because my PC has a 970, and it’s amazing. I can run games like Rainbow six siege at 100+ FPS. I haven’t gotten to play any up to date, modern games, but I’d imagine it’d play most of them just fine.
PyramidHat
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/17/2018 at 00:41 |
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Do they have Grand Theft Train?
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/17/2018 at 00:44 |
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Maybe it is just viewing the screenshots on a phone, but that’s some pretty decent graphics. If you would have told me it was a photo, I probably would have not noticed.
I’m still running a first gen Core i7 with a Radeon 5770, so maybe it doesn’t take much to impress me...
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
06/17/2018 at 04:03 |
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Thanks to the bubble caused by bitcoin mining, the price of videocards skyrocketed last year, with 980s that were previously selling for less than $200 going for $400 or more, right about the time I was ready to buy. Things are slowly returning to normal, but last-minute profiteers are still trying to get $300+ for what is getting to be an older card. The only thing holding me back from upgrading to something newer than a 980 was the choice of OS version on the Hackintosh side of this HP workstation. My Hackintosh expert has worked out the kinks with newer versions of MacOS on this platform, so I’ll work with him next week to upgrade, then I can use newer videocards that I can buy retail, avoiding those that think that their old tech is somehow made of platinum or something.
My 670 isn’t a bad card at all, and over the last three years I’ve gotten my $80 worth out of it (thank you Micro Center clearance section). It runs things decently, but at this point I need something a bit quicker for various simulators like Prepar3d. I’m just not willing to pay extortionists obscene amounts of money for their parts, so doing this OS upgrade will free me from this hostage-like situation and breathe some new life into this aging, but still solid and quick, workstation. I’ve added an SSD to the Windows side, and I’m at 16GB of RAM, so there isn’t a whole lot else to upgrade. 8GB PC3 DIMMs aren’t cheap (and I am...), so RAM isn’t likely to be swapped out. I only paid $200 for this computer, so frugality is the name of the game.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
06/17/2018 at 04:06 |
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The included images are what made me want this program, and why I thought I wouldn’t be able to run it. Those were probably taken with a very high-end machine, and although it doesn’t look quite that good on my computer, it’s not that far off.
NKato
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/18/2018 at 15:13 |
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Whatever you do, don’t give Dovetail Games more money after that purchase. They have been trying to drag more money out of their customers for less content. Just read the Steam Reviews, you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Ultimately, the product as a foundational base is good, but the developers do not show an interest in producing good, content-heavy addons that are actually worth the asking price.