Thinking of buying. Is it any good?

[endothlyne]

I'm looking for a good train sim but I am undecided. Have searched the net but no one seems to be able to give a definite recommendation. I noticed TS 2014 was released today but that seems pricey with a lot of peeps frustrated with its bugs.

Also will Trainz 2012 run on my i5 with intel HD 3000.

Thanks for any help.

[City Builder]

As far as mainstream products are concerned I believe you have mentioned the two that we have available to us today, certainly there are other train simulators on the market but they're not really mainstream products for the casual simulation fan

As far as the two are concerned that you mentioned, I think it depends on how much you want to spend and what you want to get out of the simulator.

The Auran Trainz simulator has a serious butt load of content available to it however getting to it can be a pain in the butt. First you have to understand how their content manager works to be able to find the content that you actually might want to use and then you either have to download at dial-up speeds or purchase a first-class ticket to download at what they considered to be high speed download, which I do not consider to be high speed download at all. I can download off of steam at 60.00 Mb per second however from their content manager for Auran Trainz I can barely reach 10.00 Mb per second and even that seems very inaccurate as I might be downloading an item that is only 350 kb and even though I'm on a first-class ticket it feels like I'm downloading at barely 56.00 kb per second.

However, once you get used to how the content manager works in assuming you have really high speed downloads there is a lot of content to explore compared to train simulator 2014 where it is not kept in one general place and you have to look all over the Internet to find free content or you'll be paying close to $3000 to buy DLC from the company itself, that assumes you want everything from train simulator 2014, which most people don't advise.

As far as running on your computer I don't think the eye five is going to be a problem however the Intel HD 3000 might be one of the laptops that I game on has the HD 4000 from Intel as well as an Nvidia 650 M and if I try to play using the Intel HD 4000, from memory, I believe I had to turn down all the settings to the lowest possible I don't imagine it's much different with your HD 3000. Also remember that Auran Trainz is a few years old now.

In a nutshell, I prefer Auran's Trainz for its editor which I find to be substantially easier to use to create nice-looking routes, and I prefer train simulator 2014 for actually running the trains on the routes. However the amount of routes that come with train simulator 2014 are very slim, I think there might be three or four of them.

Granted you have to download a lot of routes from the download station for Auran Trainz but it offers you a great deal of content at no extra charge other than perhaps having to buy a first-class high speed download ticket if you can't wait using dial-up speeds and a limit of 100 MB per day

Good luck with this

[City Builder]

I should also mention that even if you are using the first-class ticket high speed download your download speed will often drop down to dial-up speed anyway, I'm talking about not even 56K download speed but old old old download speeds like 5.6 kb per second on many of the items.

Downloading a total of 1.63 Gb through the content manager has taken nearly one hour whereas if I was to download the same amount of data through steam it would take less than a few minutes so in my opinion you're not getting what we pay for with the first-class tickets however when you compare the inconvenience of slow downloads and free content for Auran Trainz compared to the $3000 worth of DLC in train simulator 2014 I think it's a no-brainer depending on how much money you have available to yourself

[endothlyne]

Wow, thanks a lot for the info. its really given me something to think about. Yes I've read about the download issues and it did put me off a bit. Then again the lack of content and cost also dettered me with TS 2014. Trainz has me leaning more its way because of the age. I don't think it would be as demanding on my i5 as TS 2014 would no doubt be.

Thanks again for the advice.

[adrew]

there is also one worth a shout Run 8 simulator have seen a few you tube bits for it and looks not bad

[adrew]

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[FOH Overkill]

I am looking for a good train sim any suggestions?

[adrew]

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[M E D I C]

Train Simulator 2014 is a good one better than Trainz by far

[Sentou Gakuen]

its now on humble bundle weekly, get it for $1

[laika]

This is a great sim only if you want to learn this sim. Also when you like building routes this is the sim to buy. I should wait a couple of months for the Trainz a new era version(early 2015)and plz take a look at the forums on this site:
https://www.auran.com/trainz/trainz.htm

If you only want to drive trains on real routes(well almost real) you can better buy Train Simulator 2015 but that sim is very expensive if you want DLC routes and rolling stock.

Trainz 12 has a download station with free DLC including routes, rolling stock, buildings, signals etc etc.

Sorry for my bad UK language.
Im use both simulators but because i like building routes and making sessions i prefer Trainz. Only driving trains is boring. And because i'm a RL traindriver in the Netherlands for driving trains i dont need a sim :)

[Benstro]

Everyone above makes just about any argument that I would be able to make. Myself, I like the custom content mostly, and to be quite honest I like crashing the trains sometimes XD if you want REALISTIC derailment physics, TS2015 is your best bet (from what i have seen), whereas if stuff derails in trainz it just slides along the ground in one position, not rolling or turning

[malienvictor2004]

I have been curious about 2012 since I have 2006 but haven't used it in a long time, not sure it would even run on Win 7 with newer hardware. Is it much better in performance and controls than 06? How much content is there in the base game before getting DLC added? Looked at TS2015 and hearing it is severly lacking in base content and seeing the DLC cost, over $1K for all the DLC is insane.

[flaugher]

I've been staying with TS2010, but afraid it will go unsupported sometime soon as well. Very tired of chasing the technology. I just want to play a train sim that lets you build a consist, do a scenario, and maybe get scored on whether or not you used the proper "rules of the road". This should not be all about what kind of video card or CPU you can afford.