Driving again after being off the road a few months?

If I do this I will head off to Frys in Atlanta and buy a big screen TV and the things to build a beefy computer. No way will I use a small computer monitor. if available I will also get the cab controls that plugin via USB.

 

I use a i7 3930 CPU, cooled by a 360mm radiator driven by 6 fans push pull top of case, case has three 200mm's and two Delta and Kaze fans for through air. (These two are server class, enormous amounts of air and must have fan gaurds, they are capable of taking your fingers to the bone and notch same)

64 gig of ram, trident GSkill modules x8 total. Three MSI 4 gb 680 video cards from like 2011... (I have 4 total. All of them are in good shape, three in team on this one and a 4th on the other with ex.)

Board is a Rampage ASUS blackedition II and very pricey. 6 SSD's vertex 3's in raid 5, meaning I will load a first person shooter first out of 64 total and be moving first to objective online. Capture drives are old two tera barracudas. Ive got a few 4 tb drives coming.

Nothing too fancy it's got about 10K hours on it, operates 24/7 and frankly serves as a space heater in winter off it's 1500 watt power supply from seasonic.

I don't look at specs to see if I can run a game. 4K I can do however a monitor will have to be bought for that level of detail. Probably one of the 32 inch ASUS's at 144 hertz and so forth. I currently use a 8 year old Benq 24 incher which was in it's day the top fastest refreshing monster ever. (IF I saw you coming at me in a fast monitor refreshing at 120 hertz, I will see you taking 5 steps, probably shooting by the time you take your third. On your end with a basic 60 hertz you are already dead by the time you saw me take two steps. The server has processed my action in time and is rolling the death respawn process against you.) now people with faster refresh and larger monitors can see more than I can field of view and so on. SO I get shot up. A form of hardware war.

I don't think I will be building a replacement any time soon. The next one is going to have two CPU's 128 gig of ram and teras of storage space along with a stack of 10+ ssd's also vertex 3's in Raid 5 which will be a absolute monster reading and writing really fast.

I still have three surviving Raptor 150's of 4 from over a decade ago. One of them has the click of pending death. But those for their day was absolute best.

I depend on the holidays next year to drop the computer parts in pricing within reach to build or rebuild systems. It's getting to where you can throw down 500 dollars for a dual or tri video card equipped SSD based laptop that can play anything on the market in software.

Finally down to truck simulators. Find the ones in three dimensional with enough detail to be able to hook up to your trailer and then dock it with your mirrors in the game dock world. It's pretty amazing. However it's not that great with AI controlled idiot traffic and bad shifting. No 18 speeds here that's for sure. It does not do a good job replicating mountain work either. So it's got limitations.

 

@x1Heavy can build a computer truck driving simulator for you.

 

Not this one I cannot.

Over the years Ive heard of purpose built machines where you program any of a thousand different combinations of engine and transmission to shift under load etc.

True simulators are very expensive. I recall a Airliner one that could accept any number of Boeing airframes with small changes to match in the millions of dollars a unit. Personal computers do not come near the actual doing in a big rig, airplane or whatever.

When we were doing a approach inside Dulles airspace using a particular VOR airway and altitude for our travel direction and speed, aircraft was being vectored around above and below us. The controllers knew what they were doing as long we stayed on that airway as defined by the map for that particular part of the sky. Lives depend on it.

It's one thing to poke and play a computer game at flying, quite another when your ### is up there and traffic is all around with a heavy aircraft a few miles out and closing. Every one has a particular problem to solve because all of their collective ##### are on the line as well. It's fortunate we were below 140 FL meaning that Dulles approach was dealing with us all. Not the Washington Center who has their own stack of problems coming and going.

 

Google has quite a bit of info on "big rig driving simulators" and "18 wheeler simulators for computer", such as :
18 Wheeler Truck Simulator For PC Windows (7, 8, 10, xp ...
www.apppcdownload.com › Android Games

 

I took 20 years off.

 

Just make sure to buy a shifter that sticks way up in the air above your head.