My Trainz Plus+ install is now updated to 110491 and it was easy peasy. No having to sacrifice the neighbourhood children to Moloch, no extended extended database repairs, nothing faulty, nothing missing any dependencies. Perhaps I'm still asleep and just dreaming about updating Trainz Plus+ and I'll wake up in a minute.
I thought I'd download the new Liskeard & Looe route to see what it was like. Ages ago I attempted to build a pre-grouping version of the Liskeard & Looe, but I was still pretty new to Trainz back then and didn't have the necessary skills to make a proper job of it and it all ended in tears. The new route is diesel era (sigh), but the route itself looks to have been really well done. I haven't tried any of the sessions yet because I haven't got the foggiest idea how to drive a diesel and I'm sure my grandad and uncles would all turn over in their graves if I tried.
I took a deep breath and updated the Cornish Mainline route to the latest TS2019 standards. Fortunately I've only just had fibre internet installed so all this downloading took no time at all. I have to say that the new sessions look good, though I've only tried the Falmouth trip session as yet (clean run, 5 star score, - yay me!). The old sessions with everything from 1920-1960 from all over the British Isles thrown into Cornwall were pretty dreadful, - so I'm hoping that the new sessions will be a vast improvement.
Criticisms? - the signalling is still awful and the seriously old legacy signals with huge blazing coronas should have been replaced, - or at least had their coronas modified to quiet them down a bit. The line to Falmouth looked like it had been abandoned for more than a year in most places with the amount of weed growth covering everything. And with trees pressing in so close into the line it was a forest fire waiting to happen. A lot of the time trying to see the line ahead from the cab was downright awkward due to trees overhanging the line.
I'm slowly building a 1880s Broad Gauge version of the Falmouth Branch so I am a bit of a Cornwall nut when it comes to pre-grouping railways, -so it would be awfully nice if these problems could be fixed at some time in the future and then I think this route really could shine.
And the other comment I must make is that SP2 runs smooth as silk. I have it installed on a i5 CoolerMaster computer with 16Gb of RAM and a GTX660 video card. Plainly I don't have all options set to the max and I have shadows turned off, but despite that everything looked good, - or good enough for my eyesight at least.