Why buy Trainz 2010?

[barbarotto]

Hello all my spelling/grammer/puncuation may not be good but im only interested in getting the info i need and moving on to simming that being said,it seems and was only about 10 months ago i bought trainz 2009 world builder i read some stuff but am still confused about 2010 eng edition ?-is it a add on for 2009 or a seperate sim? with its own icon on my desktop?are auran just trying to make money? i dont wont to buy it and get the same routes like what happened with me gong from 2006/09 version same stuff not much difference....on my revious post someone said auran should make more north american routes/steam engines-i totally agree thats why i still us MSTS for its excellent-free as well as 3rd party routes/engines-so why spend another $40/50 on a new version of trainz?unless its really fantastic-is it?-thanks!

 

[Baureihe41]

Happy simming! :wave:

 

[OzBoz]

Whether to buy 2010 or not, is a subjective decision for each Trainzer to make for themselves. There is enough information in these forums to provide the basis of an informed decision. Many people will say yes, and many people will say no.

T10 is a stand alone product, with a reported increase in performance, and also a great improvement in graphics rendering. The downside (at the moment) is that it is very limited in backward compatibility with previous versions, and, as yet, there are not many suitable assets on the Download Station. This will change over time.

Any, and all, manufacturers/producers are in business to make money. There's no point in their existance otherwise. Just as car manufacturers bring out a new model each year to keep sales levels up, so does Auran. The bottom line is that you don't have to buy. It's your money.

I would suggest that you trawl these forums, and glean as much info as you can, then make a decision.

Cheers

 

[Approach_Medium]

TS2010 is a significant improvement over TS2009_SP2. The rendering of Trees for example;
In TS2009, Native mode, you had that huge alpha channel surrounding a lot of the trees. This made for very odd trackside views of trainz.
This is completely gone in TS2010 native mode.

There are definitely performance improvements as well. On my system (listed in my sig), which is not the latest (5yrs old), I am getting better performance in 2010 than I did in 2009_sp2.

I don't play much with built-in routes, as I am mainly a route designer. I am working on a very large route (about 150 miles) and find TS2010 to be a lot more stable than 2009_sp2.
For example, I am editing a lot, and 2009 used to crash sometimes while doing a lot of editing. I would lose all my edits since the last save.

TS2010 has not crashed once yet! I have been running 2010 since the day it was released, and have been working on my route ever since.

Yes, there are some compatibility issues with content. You may find content that used to work in TS2009 that no longer works in TS2010.
That is partly due to Auran trying to upgrade the quality and performance of play in Trainz. Some of the old content just cannot handle the new rendering and file structure.
For example, .pm files are no longer supported. TS2010 needs .im files. You can convert .pm to .im using a 3rd party tool that is free, and easy to use.

Sure, you may have to do some tweaking, especially with older content. But look for the content with updates available, and download all updates.
Sometimes it's just a matter of removing obsolete fields from the config file for content. I have been doing this in Content Creator.

Generally, I think you will like TS2010, but have to be patient for content updates.
It certainly does have the capability of handling a lot more detail than any previous version.

Considering that I paid only $31 USD for TS2010, it was a no-brainer. I always like to have the latest version of my favorite games and apps.
Now I just wish I could afford to get the latest Microsoft Office, or Developer software<g>

BTW, I'm running TS2010 on Windows 7 Ultimate. It runs great; no problems.
You may need Admin privs to install any game on Windows 7 though.

FW