Old Trainz2012, New TANE user with 2 questions

[heynewt]

Hi,

First of all, after lurking around the forums for a few months, I finally bit the bullet and purchased TANZ through Steam. My performance has been actually pretty good, even with texture detail high and high quality shadows on. 25 - 30 fps. But I do have a new GTX Titan card with 6GB RAM (more on that below). I agree that the visuals of the game are not as phenomenal as the original videos showed back in 2013 for the Kickstarter campaign, but after reading a lot of forum posts in the last two months, my expectations were low. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the game. imo, it's a step up from 2012.

Having said that, I've got two issues.

1. Starting sessions I'm automatically put in "simple" controls mode. I'm experienced, and I want to drive in DCC (realistic mode). How do I force a session to go into DCC mode?

2. PhysX doesn't seem to be working, because I'm not seeing any "sway" in the cars. Is the sway really subtle? Is it obvious? I definitely checked the "Use PhysX Simulation" in the "Trainz Settings" panel. If you look at the attached screenshot, I've got this nagging overlay "PhysX > CPU". I went into my Nvidia control panel and forced the PhysX to use GPU, but the weird overlay did not change. Any recommendations for getting the PhysX simulation to actually work? Or does anyone know these GTX Titan cards enough to know why that overlay is persistantly on the screen, and why it's not respecting the change I made to PhysX being driven by the GPU?

Otherwise, well done Auran. I think the quality of the game will eventually win people over.

Robert

 

[boc61]

You mean you want to drive in Cab Mode. DCC is simple mode.

 

[iannz]

Train sway depends on the track condition settings, you can adjust the track conditions to cause more or less sway.

The way its setup is the faster you go, the more sway there is, while that sounds odd (and certainly doesn't work that way in real life), it actually works quite well if you adjust the track condition % to match.

Train sway on a 'default' (50%) piece of track seems to be noticeable (and look right) around 50MPH (roughly). The slower the track, the lower the track conditions need to be adjusted to get the same result to be noticeable. Same the other way, on a high speed piece of track, you want to adjust the conditions to be better or else at 100MPH your rolling stock will look like a row boat in a storm at sea.

As I say, it does seem to be an odd way of working it, but when you understand how it works, it works quite well in my opinion.

The only thing I have found and I don't know if its related, is rolling stock seem to "hump" when going over road crossings, it doesn't look or act right.

Cheers.

 

[whitepass]

The one who made the Session can lock in DCC or CAB or both, you can not change it.

Sway can also be controlled by 3 new tags in the config.txt of locos and cars.

 

[heynewt]

Yes, sorry, Cab Mode. Thx.

 

[heynewt]

Okay, all good info. I think I was just driving too slowly to notice the lack of sway. I'll adjust the sway settings.

Also, I discovered I can change the driving mode in a session by clicking in the upper right hand corner under "quickdrive" and selecting the mode there.

Thanks,

Robert

 

[normhart]

Okay, all good info. I think I was just driving too slowly to notice the lack of sway. I'll adjust the sway settings.

Also, I discovered I can change the driving mode in a session by clicking in the upper right hand corner under "quickdrive" and selecting the mode there.

Thanks,

Robert

Oh neat! Thanks for the tip, so quickdrive lets you change the control setting forced by the session creator, neat!

 

[JCitron]

Oh neat! Thanks for the tip, so quickdrive lets you change the control setting forced by the session creator, neat!

But... this only works if the original route creator put in the Quick Drive Rule in the session.

John