Railworks 3 First Look at Rain Video
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Eaglefan9727
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Impressive video. Now, If they only would get rid of users needing steam. Then, They would have my money for the sim.
Oh, go rob a gas station and buy the blasted thing already. :hehe: Honestly, STEAM ain't gonna send anyone to your house to make sure you haven't torn the tags off your mattresses, and for what YOU like railworks has it all. Best I recall your jollies are mainline running, high detail with good framerates, you don't do much switching and are not interested in AI traffic. Especially with the realism of procedural flora to add weeds near the track, railworks has everything you like, isn't missing anything you care about, so go ahead and grab it when it's on sale.
Eaglefan9727
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Jim - In my opinion, I dont think it is right when I buy a PC game and have to install something else in order for me to play it. Yes, I know. It can be turned off when playing, But the bottom line is that I still have to install steam.
Yes, I do like high detail with good FPS. Once in a while, I do like adding 1 or 2 "AI" to my runs, But not on my first run of a new route that I havent run before. There is a obvious reason why I made Rattlesnake Desert a double main line route and when and if I do a route in Trainz which is most likely once I get Trainz 12. It will be double main line as well.
As for swicthing, I do very little of it. Once in a great while. I will do it, But not that often.......
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of STEAM, but I don't see it as a major problem either, and it does have advantages. Yes, you have to install it, but it's easily UNinstalled when you no longer want the game or games that need it. I do not have STEAM installed at the moment, but any time I feel like it I can go to http://store.steampowered.com/ and log in with my user name and password, download and install the STEAM client, then download and play Railworks or Half Life 2. I don't even have to hunt up the original disks, which is a good thing cuz I lost the Half Life 2 disks in Chicago about 7 years ago. :hehe: After I get tired of zapping radioactive monsters or playing with the birdwatching simulator I can uninstall and uninstall STEAM, no traces left anywhere on the system. And while it's installed it doesn't interfere with anything else, it CAN be set to autolaunch on bootup but like most other things there's an option to disable that sort of nonsense.
Couple of my old RW videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdeCFu6t7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6dJWbAlcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTH5rdvCFY
Couple of my old RW videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdeCFu6t7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6dJWbAlcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTH5rdvCFY
jointedrail
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Oooo wow, something useful! Rain! How's the AI coming along?
LOL!!!
Mike
LOL!!!
Mike
Mike the AI is also being worked on along with the lighting and other issues.
Hi Everybody.
With Trainz to keep the game running without problems in recent years you have always had to install " the patches" with all the problems that can cause.
With Railworks through steam all the updating is done almost without you knowing, and to me that makes Railworks through steam have a very distinct advantage.
I know some forum members will say that they do not wish to have any person or organization accessing their computer other than themselves. However, Microsoft through Windows have always done this and I do not hear any complaints.
Bill
With Trainz to keep the game running without problems in recent years you have always had to install " the patches" with all the problems that can cause.
With Railworks through steam all the updating is done almost without you knowing, and to me that makes Railworks through steam have a very distinct advantage.
I know some forum members will say that they do not wish to have any person or organization accessing their computer other than themselves. However, Microsoft through Windows have always done this and I do not hear any complaints.
Bill
Eaglefan9727
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Those people know that they cant compare Microsoft to a game developer.
With Microsoft's business model, I think on many occasions I would rather trust the game developer.
Bill
Actually I have all automatic updates turned off including Windows, learned that lesson when MS updated thousands of systems which promptly got infected with a trojan a week later. I also find the Java automatic update is a resource hog which seems to search for updates every 17 1/2 seconds and tanks the framerates on every game I have, so JUsched gets disabled every time it sneaks past me and enables itself. My task manager at this moment has three applications running, Firefox internet browser, a windows explorer window, and a notepad text file I'm editing. Processes tab shows 31 processes total. That's probably why my test of gamebooster showed no performance increase, I keep my system free of "bloatware" fluff like power schemes and screensavers and google toolbars and animated dancing signing icons. When I leave the computer for a while I can shut it down or turn off the power strip for peripherals like the monitor and scanner, don't need automagical TSR programs hogging RAM and eating clock cycles while I'm trying to play a game.
Same deal with STEAM, when I did use RW I set to run in offline mode, with Trainz I have Ichat disabled, just because the system is capable of multitasking don't mean it's a good idea to multitask when you need all the resources you can get to play the game.
"the AI is also being worked on along with the lighting and other issues"
The AI is being "further enhanced", it's not an "issue" because they refuse to admit there's anything wrong with it. And they have made it plain that they will never make it as versatile as Trainz AI since they don't see any need for it, it already does exactly what they want it to do.
Headlight projection, never was really important to me but I gotta wonder how many have died of old age since October 2007 waiting for that?
Same deal with STEAM, when I did use RW I set to run in offline mode, with Trainz I have Ichat disabled, just because the system is capable of multitasking don't mean it's a good idea to multitask when you need all the resources you can get to play the game.
"the AI is also being worked on along with the lighting and other issues"
The AI is being "further enhanced", it's not an "issue" because they refuse to admit there's anything wrong with it. And they have made it plain that they will never make it as versatile as Trainz AI since they don't see any need for it, it already does exactly what they want it to do.
Headlight projection, never was really important to me but I gotta wonder how many have died of old age since October 2007 waiting for that?
Looks impressive! I wonder how they do that, and how hard it would be to configure a custom loco with a different windshield / wiper pattern? Also would be interesting if the effect is visible from the outside, and on windows without wipers (like on passenger cars.)
Curtis
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Hi Everybody.
Well I have been messing around with computers since approximately the early 80s when I purchased my first home computer a Dragon 32 and then later a Amstrad 128 ( oh happy days).
I have had many computers since then and have never been infected by a virus, Trojan, malware or anything else as far as I am aware. I have probably received more Microsoft' updates than I could count without any problem whatsoever. Perhaps I've just been, lucky who knows.
However, I seem to find many people in my travels who share the same experience as myself and therefore I feel it is very easy to become somewhat paranoid about security problems. I always run the latest payware virus software on my PC and laptop which updates every time I boot up.
My latest purchase has been a Samsung galaxy tab which has now all but replaced my laptop. There is much debate on a android forum I visit as to whether it is necessary to have antivirus software on that machine at all. I have looked around and there seems to be only a very limited choice available which would indicate there is not much demand at present.
That said, I have been running the Samsung for approximately 3 months now without antivirus which seems to be as the majority of users do, again with no problem.
As stated I think it is very easy to become paranoid with regard to security and with cloud technology now enabling all important data to be held in that technology, should your computer become infected in any way all you have to do is plug in another computer and you are off and running again while the original is sorted out.
Bill
Well I have been messing around with computers since approximately the early 80s when I purchased my first home computer a Dragon 32 and then later a Amstrad 128 ( oh happy days).
I have had many computers since then and have never been infected by a virus, Trojan, malware or anything else as far as I am aware. I have probably received more Microsoft' updates than I could count without any problem whatsoever. Perhaps I've just been, lucky who knows.
However, I seem to find many people in my travels who share the same experience as myself and therefore I feel it is very easy to become somewhat paranoid about security problems. I always run the latest payware virus software on my PC and laptop which updates every time I boot up.
My latest purchase has been a Samsung galaxy tab which has now all but replaced my laptop. There is much debate on a android forum I visit as to whether it is necessary to have antivirus software on that machine at all. I have looked around and there seems to be only a very limited choice available which would indicate there is not much demand at present.
That said, I have been running the Samsung for approximately 3 months now without antivirus which seems to be as the majority of users do, again with no problem.
As stated I think it is very easy to become paranoid with regard to security and with cloud technology now enabling all important data to be held in that technology, should your computer become infected in any way all you have to do is plug in another computer and you are off and running again while the original is sorted out.
Bill
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With Microsoft's business model, I think on many occasions I would rather trust the game developer.
Bill
That's what I thought Bill, until they buggered my computer up with a direct instalment that went wrong, and a few other folks's PC's as well, that's why I left and went to Flight Simulator, no problems whatsoever with that. And, now that we have TS12 released, I get to play on the railways again, so, it's not all bad news.
And we've had raindrops on aircraft windows for years, with working wipers, about time the railway simulator developers caught up.:hehe:
Cheerz. ex.
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I have to agree with Euphod, the rain drops are a cute effect,
But what is not good is, the AI don't work right, and the surveyor part is a nightmare to work with, and the switches don't work because they are locked by a dithering AI that is thirty miles away, and the signals don't work properly.
When they have an easier to use surveyor, and AI that actually works, without locking signals and switches, then I might be tempted to buy Railworks again.
Joe Airtime
But what is not good is, the AI don't work right, and the surveyor part is a nightmare to work with, and the switches don't work because they are locked by a dithering AI that is thirty miles away, and the signals don't work properly.
When they have an easier to use surveyor, and AI that actually works, without locking signals and switches, then I might be tempted to buy Railworks again.
Joe Airtime
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Hi Everyone.
As I have Railworks 2 and I will give it a go especially as it is a free upgrade, why not. It certainly beats spending 30 pounds to get the very minor improvements in Trainz 2012.
If you want to speak about switches then one of the major failures of Trainz I find is the very unrealistic looking switches which have remained the same since the first Trainz version was released.
However, that is a fact some on this forum would rather forget or not mention.
As I have stated in another thread both simulators have their strengths and weaknesses and it is for the user to find what suits their route building ambition or other content creation dream.
Each to his own and not something to get hung up about
Bill
As I have Railworks 2 and I will give it a go especially as it is a free upgrade, why not. It certainly beats spending 30 pounds to get the very minor improvements in Trainz 2012.
If you want to speak about switches then one of the major failures of Trainz I find is the very unrealistic looking switches which have remained the same since the first Trainz version was released.
However, that is a fact some on this forum would rather forget or not mention.
As I have stated in another thread both simulators have their strengths and weaknesses and it is for the user to find what suits their route building ambition or other content creation dream.
Each to his own and not something to get hung up about
Bill
Maybe some of us just don't care. This is not to say Auran/N3V shouldn't improve what is obviously a major sticking point for some, but I'd take accurate signalling and usable AI over pretty switches and rain in a second.
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