Using R-Motion and TGC with under-powered Surface Pro 2?

[Tj_Denawli]

Hey, first post here! With winter approaching here in MN I'm looking at dipping a toe into the simulator world. I'm going to need to do this a bit in baby-steps to get it past the wife, so I'm looking at the R-Motion as an entry point as I can slowly add components around it as I ultimately build-out a full simulator package.

I've pretty much assumed I'll be stuck just using the R-Motion with an android based app this winter which I think will be released soon, as I'm not ready to splurge on a dedicated computer build yet as I really don't need it for anything else. That said I'm curious if anyone has luck running TGC on a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 or the Pro 3 (with an i5 as its essentially the same processor and graphics card)? Is there a way to dial back things enough to get it to provide any level of functionality on this machine?

I'm not looking for much, and wouldn't have high expectations for it on the Surface Pro, but am just curious if it would be able to offer anything more than the Android app...or if it wouldn't even do that?

[simmb]

I just dug out my Surface Pro 2 and installed the steam version of TGC for you. It runs but that is about it, even with all the settings dialed right down it's pretty much unusable. It took me about 3 minutes just to play 1 shot.

[Tj_Denawli]

I just dug out my Surface Pro 2 and installed the steam version of TGC for you. It runs but that is about it, even with all the settings dialed right down it's pretty much unusable. It took me about 3 minutes just to play 1 shot.

Thanks! Appreciate the effort greatly!

[simmb]

No problem, sorry it wasn't better news.

[simmb]

Hold your horses, I totally forgot about the launch option graphic settings. I only put the in game settings down to min. Using Low graphics mode on the game launch options makes it not so bad. It's not smooth by any means but much more usable. Will try and get a video for you see what you think.

[Chuck]

To be honest, with a low-end computer I would consider an Optishot 2. I did that with my first sim on a $300 HP laptop that had one of Intel's low-end processors and Intel graphics. I had an absolute blast with that and a net and it worked wonderfully. Optishot is still my favorite sim 3 years later.

[Tj_Denawli]

To be honest, with a low-end computer I would consider an Optishot 2. I did that with my first sim on a $300 HP laptop that had one of Intel's low-end processors and Intel graphics. I had an absolute blast with that and a net and it worked wonderfully. Optishot is still my favorite sim 3 years later.

Yeah optishot was my original thought, but I'd ultimately like to upgrade to a skytrack. With that in mind starting with an R-motion system seemed to make more sense as its $300 that would still be spent towards the end goal vs. an optishot would just kind of be a sunk cost that wouldn't benefit the end goal.

[Chuck]

Ahh, I understand. Well if you are going to do Skytrak in the future, then R-motion is really your only choice and assuming your going to be integrating the system and licenses. In that case spend your money on a good gaming laptop or gaming PC. A Laptop with an AMD Ryzen based Radeon8 APU make inexpensive kick-butt game machine. Google 'Ryzen APU laptop' and have fun shopping.