Bad game, or bad user?

[76561198375159440]

I am very new to this sim, and I am having tons of problems. The video is very jerky, the controls don't work, the whole thing is awful. any ideas

[Rudolf Jan]

Did you install the last beta update? System specs sufficient? This game requires a fairly powerful system. You may try to reduce the graphics settings.

See also the starters guide:

http://www.hollandhiking.nl/trainsimulator/index.php

[Growler]

I just don't understand why so many people are in such complete denial. That unfortunately the game is curently borked! Regardless of how nice the graphics may look, it fails miserably on peformance. Many players with top end machines simply can't get the game to run satisfactorily even on lower settings. Even those that can run it ok, are still getting pretty dire FPS. And apart from thousands of trees and a single nice shiny train, the reality is, that there's not really anything complex to test the game. i.e Sand Patch is pretty much about as simple as it gets for a route in a railroad sim.

I shudder to think what's going to happen, when there's a decent amount of AI traffic (with large consists), multiple lines with OLE, & large complex urban city scenes in route. Right now, I suspect the game would simply painfully grind to a halt.

This making people believe there's likely something wrong with their PC should stop. It's surely better to reassure folk there are current significant problems with the game's optimisation. With TSW right now making very poor using of a PC's hardware (both cpu & gpu).

Everyone should just chill, let DTG do their stuff in resolving the problems. I'm sure they'll get there in the coming months. The player community can then reassess how the game runs in say six months down the 'line' - forgive the bad pun. ;)

DTG could though help themselves, with better communication to their customer base (some 18,000 purchasers), being honest in letting them know what's going on (i.e the cause of problems), & indication of their strategy for getting things back on 'track' (there I go again! lol).

[Boss 429]

really fancy getting this game but after reading lots of these types of threads and the negative reviews do you think its best to leave it a few months and then see where its at?

[timahoo]

Originally posted by Father Ted:

really fancy getting this game but after reading lots of these types of threads and the negative reviews do you think its best to leave it a few months and then see where its at?

As you have lived with Father Dougal your level of patience has already been tested! So you may be able to handle the low frames in places. But if your nerves are already frayed then stay away for now begorrah! A big factor could be if you like American style heavy hauling or not. If you like just mucking about with trains in the yard & doing your own thing, then there is some mileage in it, the frames are OK in places.

EDIT: somehow i have whiled away 32 hours playing it, no idea where the time went so it must have something going for it.

[Axe]

Originally posted by Father Ted:

really fancy getting this game but after reading lots of these types of threads and the negative reviews do you think its best to leave it a few months and then see where its at?

This is the most difficult and also the most impossible question to answer, as there is no answer at this time. So thus:

It depends what you expect at this very moment in time in the game-future-timeline.

Buy now and live with the growing pains or don't and come back later when hopefully they are over... all at your own discretion.

If I were to add my personal feelings knowing DTG and TS well enough, I would come back in a couple of years and see what TSW is all about then...

[didiwortmann]

my train slower and slower and than stop ! Icant scenery komplet. Why my Train dont go 1%up ?
sorry my english ! Brakes free dont problem.

[BigTrain6199]

This was the worst advertising of Dovetail to start this game with such a broken beta. Beautiful graphics are not enough. Trainsimexit