Trevithick
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One thing is not deniable: TS2MAC enables the full screen display with high resolutions, TSMAC doesn't. I can say nothing about frame rates. But one thing is clear: TS2MAC is still too buggy.
Article: Trainz Simulator 2 for Mac now available!
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MacBook Pro Late-2013 (2.4Ghz i5 8gb)
MacOS: 10.9.3
Version 1.0.1
Fails to start. Locks up my MacBook up completely. Do I request a refund or hang on for an update?
I've found that the sim works fine in a window. Just not in fullscreen mode. A bit happier now
Trevithick
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I run TS2MAC on the following machine:
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
Processor: 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Memory: 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Storage: Fusion Drive
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
If I say, TS2MAC works fine on my machine in fullscreen mode (but it has evil bugs), you must see, it is a high end machine. If you cut down the resolution and run it in a window, it might work with slower hard ware, but since my time with a PC I don't know any train simulator, that was not resource hungry with one exception: Trainz for iPad, but try to drive "in cab" with a little touchscreen, if you know what I mean. For me it means (it's my humble opinion) N3V knows, how to program a simulator, that is not so hungry for resources (the iPad version shows), but they don't do it. I think, for financial reasons they are very short on man power, the crowd funding of TANE makes me thinking so. Some of the so called "high lights" of TANE are even ready in the third party content like as an example the tilting of the rolling stock in curves: it is realized in HP Trains scenery "Marias Pass X", also "Cab Sway - further support for a user-enabled option for the in-cab camera to also move in response to the external motion (i.e. engineer head wobble)". I need a good railroad sim on mac, this is the reason, I support N3V. Momentarily there is no alternative.
More worse and this I name an evil bug: If you use the surveyor in a route to create a new scenery, it may destroy the route (in that scenery). If you use quick drive, some content may be gone like signals in Marias Pass X and that isn't a fault of HP Trains (they do a very good job) but by the faulty work of N3V. I spent more than 200 bucks for this version of Trainz (inclusive the in app pay ware) not to mention my upgrading the hardware, and I get bugs galore. I hope, that TANE for Mac is downward compatible with TS10 and TS12 pay ware content.
There is many work to finish!!!
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
Processor: 3.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Memory: 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Storage: Fusion Drive
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
If I say, TS2MAC works fine on my machine in fullscreen mode (but it has evil bugs), you must see, it is a high end machine. If you cut down the resolution and run it in a window, it might work with slower hard ware, but since my time with a PC I don't know any train simulator, that was not resource hungry with one exception: Trainz for iPad, but try to drive "in cab" with a little touchscreen, if you know what I mean. For me it means (it's my humble opinion) N3V knows, how to program a simulator, that is not so hungry for resources (the iPad version shows), but they don't do it. I think, for financial reasons they are very short on man power, the crowd funding of TANE makes me thinking so. Some of the so called "high lights" of TANE are even ready in the third party content like as an example the tilting of the rolling stock in curves: it is realized in HP Trains scenery "Marias Pass X", also "Cab Sway - further support for a user-enabled option for the in-cab camera to also move in response to the external motion (i.e. engineer head wobble)". I need a good railroad sim on mac, this is the reason, I support N3V. Momentarily there is no alternative.
More worse and this I name an evil bug: If you use the surveyor in a route to create a new scenery, it may destroy the route (in that scenery). If you use quick drive, some content may be gone like signals in Marias Pass X and that isn't a fault of HP Trains (they do a very good job) but by the faulty work of N3V. I spent more than 200 bucks for this version of Trainz (inclusive the in app pay ware) not to mention my upgrading the hardware, and I get bugs galore. I hope, that TANE for Mac is downward compatible with TS10 and TS12 pay ware content.
There is many work to finish!!!
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amigacooke
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Not really as this is the version for OSX equivalent to the Windows TS12 version.
I don't know why it wouldn't be - maybe someone can test on a computer with similar specs to mine.
Macbook
13-Inch, Mid 2010
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Running OS X 10.9.3
stuartluff
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I bought TS2MAC as TSMac is good but has MANY issues. I was hoping TS2MAC would fix the bugs. It lasted less than ten minutes on my Mac before I erased and got a refund from Apple. TS2MAC is a MASSIVE step backwards and it stopped me from pledging for T:ANE.
amigacooke
Well-known member
In less than ten minutes? Did you not think of allowing some time to make a reasoned decision?
stuartluff
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I've used Trainz 1 for long enough to know that little had changed and none of my current content would work despite it being error free according to Trainz2 specs. It is certainly not worth £27.99.
If you bought from App Store contact Apple they are the people who sold it to you.
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Can not open Trainz 2 on my Mac
I too can not get Trainz 2 to open on my mac. I have tried opening in a window, I have tried reducing the resolution but it will not open. Here are my specs
iMac
20 inch, Early 2008
2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo
4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MV
OSX 10.9.3
Any suggestions would be oh so welcome.
Trainz for Mac (1) runs fine.
I too can not get Trainz 2 to open on my mac. I have tried opening in a window, I have tried reducing the resolution but it will not open. Here are my specs
iMac
20 inch, Early 2008
2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo
4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MV
OSX 10.9.3
Any suggestions would be oh so welcome.
Trainz for Mac (1) runs fine.
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