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[B.Erdmann]

i got trainz driver 2006 for my birthday in february. it was 10.00 i got it at best buy. well im not sure if its my computer or just the game but it takes for ever to load & theirs so many glitches in the game & constinatly keeps freezing up when i am trying to play it & i get soo mad i just do the improper way of turning off the computer cause i can click exit. i was wondering if microsoft train sim would be better or not. or if it freezes up. i dont even play  trainz barley since it freezes u p & i get so mad at it.

 

any one help me or has anyone encountered the same thing?

[Anonymous]

What Specifications is your hardware?

Type of CPU?

Type of Video Card? (IF your card says Intergrated Graphics or Shared Graphics... it will not run very well.)

Type and how much RAM?

Type and capacity of hard drive or multipule drives?

Sound card type?

[Railfan1]

I have heard a lot of people having trouble with this program.

[Anonymous]

Personally I did not have trouble with the Trainz 2006.

The only issue I had was activation because the online database of download stuff was attractive.

My computer specs are pretty high end as of 4 years ago and has been upgraded three generations and ran this game pretty well for me.

That is why I am wondering what computer are we dealing with here.

[B.Erdmann]

ok,

 

this is as much info i can give

Dell Dimension 5100 Windows XP

Pentium 4 HT

Purchased in july of 2005

i m not sure on any other stuff.

 

 other games have worked & some havent

 

[Anonymous]

 http://compreviews.about.com/od/maindesk/gr/DellDimens5100.htm?...+graphics

Ok.

This computer is a nice machine. I find nothing wrong with most of the items on this computer. The 512 mb of ram is rather small but acceptable. I have found personally 2 gig of matched RAM to be the ideal amount with todays games.

The only issue I have here is with the ATI Radeon X300SE PCIe Graphics Card with 128MB Memory

A visit to Trains 2006 Index
 http://www.auran.com/TRS2006/index.php

Question Technical FAQ.
"What Video Cards are Supported?"

nVidia GeForce 2
nVidia GeForce 3
nVidia GeForce 4
nVidia GeForce FX 5600 and above
ati Radeon 8500
ati Radeon 9700
ati Radeon 9800
ati Radeon X750
ati Radeon X800
ati Radeon X850

The card listed in the review is not listed in the supported card list.

Right click the "My computer Icon" on your XP machine

Choose "Properties"

Choose "Hardware" Tab

Open "Device Manager"

Expand "Display adapters" by clicking the "+" the resulting entry should be the video card you are currently using on your machine.

I use a Nvidia BFG 7800 GS on this machine, it replaces the 6900 and Ti4600 that comes before it on my AGP 8x slot so I dont know anything about ATI other than what I learned when researching (As you can do too...) this question.

 

Copied and pasted over from FAQ
Q. What does supported mean?
A. Supported means that if there is a problem found with that graphics card using the latest released drivers then we will attempt to assist you to resolve the problem. If you are currently using an unsupported video card, you may experience some performance degradation, as it may not be capable of displaying some of the graphics features of Trainz.

Q. My video card is not in the supported list for Trainz can you help me?
A. If your video card is not supported by Trainz this means that we have not tested it for compatibility with Trainz and therefore can not provide technical support beyond the suggestions made here. Try updating the device driver in the first instance as sometimes this is all that is required. Go to the device manufacturers website and look for the latest drivers to download.

 http://ati.amd.com/
 http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Add your information to the drop down choices and download the appropriate driver for your card.

 

If after installing the driver and rebooting your machine you attempt the game again and still have the same issues.. you are probably now in the market for a video card upgrade. Because Dell is a propietary computer maker, you will probably need to contact Dell for a new card from list that was provided by the FAQ off of the Trains 2006 website. They will know if your present machine will be capable of accepting the new video card.

It has been my experience that large gaming houses deliberately limit video cards that they support in a retail game to those that perform well and are rather top of line, forcing the gamer to upgrade his or hardware to stay in the game... literally.

[blade]

i have trains 2004 which i bought online from amazon and it was pretty hard to try and install.i put the cd rom in the drive proceeded to install the game and the card said to punch up a code that came with the game,well i tried it and the stupid thing wouldn't work,so i emailed the game developer and told them my problem,but they weren't much help,by the way aurian (the game developers are in none other than australia)i tried other times but gave up,it is just sitting there in the box,i haven't played it yet.i also own the microsoft train simulator and find it a breeze to load and have no problems with as i play it not too often but once in a while.your best bet is to get the microsoft train sim and forget trainz 2006,when playing microsoft train sim before you had to have the cd rom in the cd/dvd rom drive,now all you do is visit the microsoft web site and download i belive a patch and you no longer need to have the cdrom in the drive everytime that you play.ther web site is www.microsoft.com/games/trainsimulator. i hope this was helpful

[sfrr]

DONT GET DRIVER

 

you will be much more satisifed if you get the full version, located near the simulation games, its in a much bigger box.  It has surveyour which lets you make your own routes.  and if you don't plan on getting the full version then uninstall trainz, and reinstall it, when its done reinstalling, DO NOT OPEN IT OR RUN IT...go here and get this (http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=81) ...its a service pack, your looking for the 3092 download, which is one of the first 2 downloads, it doesnt matter which one you choose.   and just let it install, and remeber, make sure theres nothing to do with trainz left on your computer.  and heres some extra info...(http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=80)

 

Keep on trainzing!