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Offline TyroneR44

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Best For Openbve
« on: August 18, 2012, 03:36:04 pm »
Which computer or laptop is best for Openbve ?

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2012, 04:34:48 pm »
it really depends mainly on your graphics card, processor, and ram.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2012, 05:12:32 pm »
Almost anything on the current market can run OpenBVE at the moment.  It doesn't take that much to run the program.  You don't need anything top of the line for this program.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2012, 05:49:18 pm »
Make sure you got some space. Or that R46 will lag the sh*t out of your computer. All depends on what routes you want to play, and what trains you want to download.  I second exactly what peacemak3r said.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2012, 08:13:27 pm »
Got a budget? I can recommend something custom built...

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2012, 01:03:19 am »
If you don't have an i7 processor and one hell of a good graphics card in that machine, yea, the new R46 will lag the crap out of your machine. 6 gbs of ram however, is plenty sufficient to run the program with any train, since i only use about 2 or so gbs max when I run the program.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2012, 01:55:13 am »
some tricks would kind of boost up openbve for you but not that much such as

1)right clicking on your desktop screen, click personalize, go to window color and appearance, and selecting windows classic as the color scheme.

2) go to your system properties, click on advanced system settings, hit "Settings..." on the performance menu, and choose adjust for best performance.

I currently use both of these settings since my windows 7 laptop broked, and now i have to use my crappy old, but still working windows vista at this time. :P

Or if you want you can download Game Booster, its free of charge and stops unnecessary programs on your laptop in order to give you as much fps as you can
« Last Edit: August 19, 2012, 01:57:23 am by Orion V CNG #748 »

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2012, 10:17:36 pm »
Can Openbve run well on an i3 or i5 processor?

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2012, 11:05:18 pm »
works fine on my mac book pro with an i5 processor

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2012, 05:09:09 pm »
Can Openbve run well on an i3 or i5 processor?

The interiors run fine on the i5 and HD Graphics 4000.. just don't expect to run any new exteriors anymore.

Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2012, 04:52:13 pm »
I have a Toshiba Satellite L655 with an Intel Pentium processor. You think I could run well on OpenBVE with this?

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2012, 07:46:28 am »
I have a Toshiba Satellite L655 with an Intel Pentium processor. You think I could run well on OpenBVE with this?
Depends on what kind of video card is located on your chipset. Let's just say that Pentiums aren't Intel's best product, but I doubt the new R46 likes it... (the R16 will be working just fine, for some reason)

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2012, 08:13:49 am »
Depends on what kind of video card is located on your chipset. Let's just say that Pentiums aren't Intel's best product, but I doubt the new R46 likes it... (the R16 will be working just fine, for some reason)

Difference is 3D poles.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2012, 09:16:16 am »
I have a Toshiba Satellite L655 with an Intel Pentium processor. You think I could run well on OpenBVE with this?
Depends on what kind of video card is located on your chipset. Let's just say that Pentiums aren't Intel's best product, but I doubt the new R46 likes it... (the R16 will be working just fine, for some reason)

After looking into the specs, it'll run OpenBVE.  But considering the quality of routes and trains these days, you should probably run them at the lowest setting.

It's running a dual-core at least.

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Re: Best For Openbve
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2013, 01:20:38 pm »
If you don't have an i7 processor and one hell of a good graphics card in that machine, yea, the new R46 will lag the crap out of your machine. 6 gbs of ram however, is plenty sufficient to run the program with any train, since i only use about 2 or so gbs max when I run the program.
my computer has a Celeron and a 2GB RAM, the R46 won't even WORK.
however I play OpenBVE on my brother's computer, which is a lot better with an i5 and 8GB RAM.
Aah! God damn this 15 year old desktop PC!