Hi everyone,
I see from my usage stats I last posted here in 2011!
Anyway, I've been playing with NoLimits 2, including making videos from it, and Photoshop for scanning and manipulating old negatives (some of which are glass and produce beautifully sharp images at high resolution). I promised myself about 10 years ago that if I bought another desktop I'd build it myself and that day has finally arrived. I'll keep the laptop for internet and small stuff, but it's time I had a dedicated PC.
Here's my current laptop spec:
8 GB ram
Radeon HD 8670m 1 GB
Windows 10
AMD A4 quad core...no idea what it is beyond that
It makes me sad that I can't turn up the eye candy when it comes to graphics and I'm going to need something which can handle graphics heavy multiplayer games in the future (there's one I'm beta testing and my laptop can no longer cope). With the bigger negative scans Photoshop is maxing out my system ram (I can't increase it further) and any attempt to build actual parks as opposed to single rollercoasters is going to massively slow my frame rates. I'm already having problems as it is with more complicated layouts. What would make a good build for my needs? I have looked at the latest TR system guide from last year but I'm not quite sure which one fit best.