G'day Everyone, hope you've all had a Merry Christmas and Happy start to the new year. 

A couple of people have been asking me about whether I'll be converting my mod edits across to FS25. At the time, pre-Christmas I simply said I hadn't got the game, and if my laptop can run FS25 I'll start converting mods in the new year. 

Well...

2 days after Christmas I got FS25, and to cut a long story short, while my Gaming Laptop CAN run FS25... I can't run it at the visual specs I'd prefer to run it, as it hovers around 45-50fps with the base-game by itself, no mods running.

Combined with the fact that I've discovered my vram is lower than minimum requirements for FS25, and even 22 since January last year, there is a chance that while my laptop COULD run GE10, I doubt it can do so without constant crashing, lag, and corruption of files. 

Where does this leave the future of my mods?

Simply put, I'm not going to begin converting my mods over to FS25 until I can raise the funds to get myself a PC powerful enough to not only run the game at the visuals and frames that I want, but also comfortably handle a massive 4x map i3d such as Nelly Creek 22 with little to no lag or crashing. If it can do that, then it will guarantee me the ability to continue modding for FS25 and the next 2 games after it going forward. These PC's do not come cheap, so the timeframe as to when I can earn enough to get such a rig is looking like Mid-this year minimum. I plan to be spending a lot more time working IRL, so modding for FS will be taking a backseat for now. 

As for FS22? We aren't done just yet. I have a handful of mods that I've kept in the background for at least 1 1/2 years now that you may have seen pulling the combine along in some screenshots... I want to finish these, and the massive 5-year project that is my 4x map "Nelly Creek" for FS22 releasing it here on my itch.io page, before handing it over to some friends in modding to bring it to FS25 on the in-game modhub for a proper release. 

I'm not going tools down just yet, I'm only on Smoko. 

- TJM