I did some RTS designs ideas, small bedroom not big enough, and smaller designs, see my ideas at the link as images, JPGs.
I had problems with old RTS software when tryinjg to do larger layout, computer screen is 1280 x 1050, not enough virtual RAM to handlle the size for screen resolution, so menus for adding track, etc would disappear while working on layout 10.5 x 2.5 L with 12 x 3 ft right section and first south leg.
Virtual memory hadt had to be set to recommended max. - Tom/Puma
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Tom,
I have been using RTS since it first came out. I currently use RTS 8.0. There are some ‘Game Stopper’ bugs in RTS 10.0 like where it will not let you remove that last piece of track when changing something.
I have been using it for a re-design of my 20’ by 25’ layout area, and I have NO problems with with screen refresh. I am using a 2.2 GHz dual-core laptop with 4 GB of RAM. I am using 1440X900 on the 17" laptop, and 1440X1050 on the 22" wide screen monitor. I sort of remember what you describe with an old 160 MHz laptop that only had 80 MB of RAM!
Jim
WinRail (or RTS which is a variant of version 10) requires Windows 2000 or higher (Windows 7, Vista, XP). We recommend at least a computer of the 1 GHz-class with 1 GB of RAM. The larger your layout, the more RAM and performance is required. My latest computer is a 4 core Intel system with 8GB. Performance is never an issue. If you are not at the minimum requirements, you won’t get the performance level that makes using the product “fun”.