any opinions on Railworks2??

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@ NikkiA.........

I just drove Rumour3 's EWS 66 on the Kings X - Newcastle route.

I prefer his FREEWARE model externally to the RS\RW payware dross.

His cab interior is better than i remembered it, so apologies for slighting it.

Physics, performance and realism are way ahead of the RS\RW racing car version. ;)

But there again not one UK diesel in RW has anything like realistic performance characteristics.

IKB.
 
Back to a more positive note:

Railworks will never look like this:

ek3-4.jpg


EK3 on Steam09. If you put that many trees in Railworks it will choke up.

Harold
 
Your experience is not uncommon, Harold. That's the digital life. For all the versions and features or a particular piece of software (or hardware, for that matter) sometimes one just gets set up the way you want it or just works out for you.

I recommend, though, cloning your hard drive periodically.
 
I bought both sims, RW2 and Trainz 2010EE, around last Christmas.

Went through the tutorials and a few default routes on the two of them, and i'm afraid i prefered RW2. I've concentrated on RW2 since but do give Trainz an odd run out.

Graphics: In my opinion RW2 looks a lot better than Trainz, i don't know but Trainz to me looks sort of cartoonist, and the tracks 10 metres and out from the cab are a sort of drab gray, very off putting. Again this is my opinion, and might be the fault of my computer specs.

Route building: I have not dabbled in route building on either sim as of yet, but it is generally acknowledged that Trainz, and i've seen this been said on more than one Railworks forum, is much better and easier.

Physics: The train physics and how near they are to real life seems to be, understandably, of upmost importance to trainsim 'purists' (for want of a better word). To tell the truth i don't notice much off a difference, once the thing moves is enough for me at this early stage in my train simming experience. Don't get me wrong i'd prefer things to be as realistic as possible, but having never been inside the cab of a train i don't really feel qualified to say whats realistic or not. I've seen another trainsim been mentioned as having more realistic physics than both RW2 and Trainz, its name escapes me at the moment.

I do plan to explore Trainz in the future and give it a proper go, but as i've since bought the complete RW2 dlc package, it will be a while before i've finished driving around everthing in RW2.

What i would say to the OP, or any one else, wondering which of the two sims is the best, get the two of them, try them out and make up your mind.

Again eveything here is my own opinion, for whatever that is worth.
 
cilldroichid said:
I bought both sims, RW2 and Trainz 2010EE, around last Christmas.

Went through the tutorials and a few default routes on the two of them, and i'm afraid i prefered RW2. I've concentrated on RW2 since but do give Trainz an odd run out.

Graphics: In my opinion RW2 looks a lot better than Trainz, i don't know but Trainz to me looks sort of cartoonist, and the tracks 10 metres and out from the cab are a sort of drab gray, very off putting. Again this is my opinion, and might be the fault of my computer specs.

Route building: I have not dabbled in route building on either sim as of yet, but it is generally acknowledged that Trainz, and i've seen this been said on more than one Railworks forum, is much better and easier.

Physics: The train physics and how near they are to real life seems to be, understandably, of upmost importance to trainsim 'purists' (for want of a better word). To tell the truth i don't notice much off a difference, once the thing moves is enough for me at this early stage in my train simming experience. Don't get me wrong i'd prefer things to be as realistic as possible, but having never been inside the cab of a train i don't really feel qualified to say whats realistic or not. I've seen another trainsim been mentioned as having more realistic physics than both RW2 and Trainz, its name escapes me at the moment.

I do plan to explore Trainz in the future and give it a proper go, but as i've since bought the complete RW2 dlc package, it will be a while before i've finished driving around everthing in RW2.

What i would say to the OP, or any one else, wondering which of the two sims is the best, get the two of them, try them out and make up your mind.

Again eveything here is my own opinion, for whatever that is worth.
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Couldn't agree more. Trainz is great. Railworks is great. Can't understand why the controversy. Use both, and enjoy both.
Geoff
 
Hi Geoff,

Trainz is great, Railworks is not great. Can't understand why the controversy. Use both, and enjoy both. ;)

Crisis, what crisis?

Controversy, what controversy?

;)

The missing controversial side of Alberte :wave:
 
Problem is Geoff, RailWonk is not great.

If it was i might be using it instead of Trainz.

Instead of it residing on my hdd, month in and month out without me even looking at it.

IKB.
 
Liking both sims is all well and good but the problem is that time after time after time Railfail devotee's come on here and run our beloved Trainz into the ground trying to pick faults with it (yes we know trainz has faults) , but this fault picking is completely one sided because if we attempt the same thing on a railfail forum then it gets moderated and deleted and you end up with a ban .

SO please understand this is a TRAINZ forum and if you don't want you're beloved railfail to get abused by trainz users then don't come on here trying to peddle your filth !!

Trainz users If you love both sims then good for you but once again this is a TRAINZ forum if you want to sing the praises of railfail go do it on a railfail forum , I'm sure they'll moderate you with open arms :hehe:
 
Let me see if I've been keeping track of current events here...

Trainz is great, Trainz is terrible, Railworks is great, Railworks is terrible.

Okay, I got it I think...:o
 
nexusdj said:
SO please understand this is a TRAINZ forum and if you don't want you're beloved railfail to get abused by trainz users then don't come on here trying to peddle your filth !!
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Yes indeed, but it is also a forum that asks us to respect others opinions and debate them politely.
 
Euphod said:
Let me see if I've been keeping track of current events here...

Trainz is great, Trainz is terrible, Railworks is great, Railworks is terrible.

Okay, I got it I think...:o
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Do you know I've held all of those opinions at different times. ;)

Oops, multiple consecutive posts. The Drucifer side of amigacookie.*
 
IsambardKingdomBrunel said:
Try politely discussing Trainz in the RW forum at ukts & ts.com.

IKB.
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Try discussing anything at those two. One time on ukts the moderator was berating someone new who used Thx at the end, that ISN'T used there.

The only thing at either is rude. TS.com is "we have been here forever so sit down and shut up".

I see some of that creeping in on this forum.

Harold
 
hminky said:
Try discussing anything at those two. One time on ukts the moderator was berating someone new who used Thx at the end, that ISN'T used there.

The only thing at either is rude. TS.com is "we have been here forever so sit down and shut up".

I see some of that creeping in on this forum.

Harold
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If you get that sort of attitude on these forum, just ignore it.

I have been here since june 2001, doesn't make me anymore important as a member than you or someone who joined yesterday.

IKB.
 
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