Train Simulator 2012
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Well colour me dissapointed. I had a quick bash and the graphics look identical to railworks 2, I thought it would be a improvement but it seems to be quite subtle.
New graphics was what I was excited about, thats not all thats in the new game but I thought what railworks 2 needed was better graphics and everything else was perfect.
Damn.
New graphics was what I was excited about, thats not all thats in the new game but I thought what railworks 2 needed was better graphics and everything else was perfect.
Damn.
All sorts of problems being reported about this at UKTS and Trainsim.com. It seems the "new" graphics engine is causing all sorts of problems on even fairly up to date hardware. I can just about coax a reasonable performance on the desktop (spec as below) by turning all the shadows off, but the new laptop which previously ran RW2 okay is now a 2 FPS slideshow, including the editors so that's an end to route building until/if the developer patches the thing.
Various other bugs have been introduced including a propensity for trains to uncouple as they go along and many items from the earlier version don't work properly or even load at all!
On the plus side, the introduction of superelevation (cant) looks good on the new Horseshoe Curve route as does the decent implementation of sway in the cab view.
However purely IMHO Railsimulator.com have screwed the pooch a bit here. Casual users are not going to want to know when even techies are scratching their heads at how to get the game optimised and running decently.
Various other bugs have been introduced including a propensity for trains to uncouple as they go along and many items from the earlier version don't work properly or even load at all!
On the plus side, the introduction of superelevation (cant) looks good on the new Horseshoe Curve route as does the decent implementation of sway in the cab view.
However purely IMHO Railsimulator.com have screwed the pooch a bit here. Casual users are not going to want to know when even techies are scratching their heads at how to get the game optimised and running decently.
I'm not on the pc with Train Sim on at the moment, but to enable the new graphics you have to tick a box on the setup screen, I think part of it says "graphics engine"
I have got it running fairly well on my pc with everything at max, but I do get stuttering sometimes, usually when another train approaches.
There are quite a lot of other bugs as well though.
The light do not illuminate the area when you are in a tunnel
Rain falls through a solid roof as when in an engine shed
On one train I have come across the rain on the side windows flows forwards instead of to the rear of the train
You also have to tick a box to enable use of multi-processors and this keeps losing its settings every time you restart TS
I havn't played it for all that long so there are probably lots of other bugs as well
It doesn't seem to have been tested by their staff very well, on a video I have seen the head man kept on about the pretty dynamic sky and clouds, well they could have left that out at first and concentrated on the rest of the programming
There are quite a lot of other bugs as well though.
The light do not illuminate the area when you are in a tunnel
Rain falls through a solid roof as when in an engine shed
On one train I have come across the rain on the side windows flows forwards instead of to the rear of the train
You also have to tick a box to enable use of multi-processors and this keeps losing its settings every time you restart TS
I havn't played it for all that long so there are probably lots of other bugs as well
It doesn't seem to have been tested by their staff very well, on a video I have seen the head man kept on about the pretty dynamic sky and clouds, well they could have left that out at first and concentrated on the rest of the programming
I had another spectacular bug on Horseshoe Curve last night. Running the train I suddenly noticed a "light" engine on my track directly ahead, no signals to indicate the block was occupied. From what I can see this was one of the engines that was previously on the back of my train as a helper, which suddenly appeared in front. Then a few seconds later my train decided to derail...
If I said this on UKTS I would get flamed by the fanbois and RSC apologists, but the people responsible for putting the game out in this state should be sacked and the testers admonished and never used again.
I know it's a "free" update but I have £100's worth of DLC tied up not to mention all the man hours building routes - all of which worked quite nicely in the previous versions.
If I said this on UKTS I would get flamed by the fanbois and RSC apologists, but the people responsible for putting the game out in this state should be sacked and the testers admonished and never used again.
I know it's a "free" update but I have £100's worth of DLC tied up not to mention all the man hours building routes - all of which worked quite nicely in the previous versions.
Heads up
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Isle of Wight RailWorks Expansion Pack
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I bought this game drunkenly one day, the next night me and my housemates made it more fun by making it into a drinking game, everytime we stopped at a station we had a drink, tooted the horn. Excellent times. Haven't played it since.
As I'm not a proper train driver, I'm wondering what is the proper procedure for obeying all the signals. When you're tootling along at 100+ mph and then you come across a double yellow signal, what are you supposed to do? Slow down to a specific speed? Carry on willy nilly and see what the next signal says?
And what if the next signal is a yellow? I tend to be going too fast and then drive straight through a red signal or too slowly which means it takes an age to get to the next signal and then that happens to be green or another single yellow.
And what if the next signal is a yellow? I tend to be going too fast and then drive straight through a red signal or too slowly which means it takes an age to get to the next signal and then that happens to be green or another single yellow.
As I'm not a proper train driver, I'm wondering what is the proper procedure for obeying all the signals. When you're tootling along at 100+ mph and then you come across a double yellow signal, what are you supposed to do? Slow down to a specific speed? Carry on willy nilly and see what the next signal says?
And what if the next signal is a yellow? I tend to be going too fast and then drive straight through a red signal or too slowly which means it takes an age to get to the next signal and then that happens to be green or another single yellow.
Green - Clear, you may proceed normally.
Double yellow - Preliminary caution, the next signal is displaying a single yellow aspect.
Single yellow - Caution, be prepared to stop at the next signal.
Red - Danger/Stop
The UK signalling system is basically a phased warning alert so rather than bringing you suddenly to a stop the double yellow is telling you to prepared to slow down, single yellow is slow down and prepare to stop and red is full stop.
If you should have stopped at the previous signal then the game applies emergency brake automatically.
And it would have been red.
Also you have to press Q when you go over those yellow blocks (don't know what they are), the train makes a buzzing noise to tell you.
I find the game a bit like one of those rhythm dance games in the arcade, I'd prefer if you could just relax a bit and take in the surroundings. I guess its simulating the stresses put upon a train driver.
And it would have been red.
Also you have to press Q when you go over those yellow blocks (don't know what they are), the train makes a buzzing noise to tell you.
I find the game a bit like one of those rhythm dance games in the arcade, I'd prefer if you could just relax a bit and take in the surroundings. I guess its simulating the stresses put upon a train driver.
Aye I get that bit but the question really is how much do you slow down by? It's all pretty easy if you obey the little signal/speed marker thing at the bottom of the display but in real life you wouldn't have that. So it must be easy to be going too fast to stop unless you really have to err on the side of caution and apply maximum breaks at the single yellow signal.
It's the same when swapping lines. You'll see a sign (usually but not always) about the speed of the line next to you but the signal doesn't tell you you're swapping lines until it's too late and you're way over the next line's speed limit when you hit the points. It's all bizzare!