Monday, February 13, 2012

Railworks, TS2012 graphics performance and bugs

I'm not pleased with the updates too. Actually because i don't use anti-aliasing (railworks runs badly enough without that...), i didn't noticed ANY performance improvement under TSX mode (i do in legacy mode, but that's too retro looking), nor quality improvement.

I use medium shadows because as i said railwors don't runs like a dream on my machine, however games with much better graphics running on it with very nice frame rates (Skyrim at high settings with high res texture pack, BF3 at high, tropico4 at highest settings).
This medium shadow mode (and even high or highest) have very annoying problems. For example the flickering, and shimmering.
See this video about the shadow flickering: Youtube video

Also in TSX mode since the TS2012 update i notice flickering, z fighting on places where it wasn't in legacy mode, and not just on shadows, main geometry is flickering too! For example on german HL signal main/distant plates (red white or yellow white striped plates on signal post).

Also i've noticing (and not just me) a problem, when i switch to cab view from external, then the frame rate drops permanently, and isn't rise if i switch back to external view, only when i restart the scenario. This happens not just with br101, but with class47 cab too, and probably with every cab views.
The only improvements i see, is: faster load times, little less stuttering at tile loads (but still noticeable), plus the FXAA "hack" made official. But on the core graphics of TSX i do not notice any change.

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