Hi all,

Today we have made our third update for Train Sim World available for you to test. As we have for the last two update tests, please try this through the weekend, and if positive we will apply the patch to the main game early next week. We’d like to give a big thank you to all of you who have consistently and constructively offered your feedback and encouragement.

Here are the items addressed in this build:

• Further work has been done on identifying entities not correctly persisting and restoring state.
  
• Identified and fixed the cause of some voice overs occasionally not playing on restore.

• This build contains the first of our multi-threading improvements. In this build, SimuGraph® will use as many CPU cores as are available, to concurrently evaluate SimuGraph processing on all rail vehicles. This reduces the FPS impact when you sit in a locomotive, and should deliver a greater benefit if more cores are available. We are continuing work in this area.
  
• Improvement to non-player train physics performance.
  
• Other optimisation improvements, particularly when interacting with the AC4400CW IFD screens.
  
• Reviewed and corrected lighting setup on rail vehicles.
  
• Changed foliage MiP handling to improve the distant view and deliver a performance improvement.

• We have added support for the following keyboards: Norwegian, Danish, Bulgarian (non-phonetic), Finnish, German(IBM), Portuguese, Swedish, French Canadian Multilingual, French Canadian Legacy, Spanish Traditional / Spanish, Spanish Variation, Slovenian.

• General improvements to the brake pipes.

• Missing coupling audio added.
  
• Engine audio improvements.
  
• Horn audio improvements.
  
• Improvements to the Cab Occlusion system.

• RARE: Inability to pause the game. (We are still investigating this issue. If you are experiencing this, we do want to know more – please let us know!)

The Train Sim World update is available for you to test on Steam. To subscribe to the Update 3 Test Build, follow these instructions:

Subscribing to Test Builds

1. Load Steam and navigate to your Game Library.
   
2. Right-click on Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul and select Properties.
   
3. Select the Betas Tab and from the drop-down box, select u3tb from the list.
   
4. Click Close and Steam will automatically begin to download.
   
5. It’s important that you share your feedback with us, you can do this below on the Steam forums or by submitting tickets to our Support Team.

The Train Sim World Update 3 Test Build download will be approximately 550 MB in size.

Hi all,

Today we have made our third update for Train Sim World available for you to test. As we have for the last two update tests, please try this through the weekend, and if positive we will apply the patch to the main game early next week. We’d like to give a big thank you to all of you who have consistently and constructively offered your feedback and encouragement.

Here are the items addressed in this build:

• Further work has been done on identifying entities not correctly persisting and restoring state.
  
• Identified and fixed the cause of some voice overs occasionally not playing on restore.

• This build contains the first of our multi-threading improvements. In this build, SimuGraph® will use as many CPU cores as are available, to concurrently evaluate SimuGraph processing on all rail vehicles. This reduces the FPS impact when you sit in a locomotive, and should deliver a greater benefit if more cores are available. We are continuing work in this area.
  
• Improvement to non-player train physics performance.
  
• Other optimisation improvements, particularly when interacting with the AC4400CW IFD screens.
  
• Reviewed and corrected lighting setup on rail vehicles.
  
• Changed foliage MiP handling to improve the distant view and deliver a performance improvement.

• We have added support for the following keyboards: Norwegian, Danish, Bulgarian (non-phonetic), Finnish, German(IBM), Portuguese, Swedish, French Canadian Multilingual, French Canadian Legacy, Spanish Traditional / Spanish, Spanish Variation, Slovenian.

• General improvements to the brake pipes.

• Missing coupling audio added.
  
• Engine audio improvements.
  
• Horn audio improvements.
  
• Improvements to the Cab Occlusion system.

• RARE: Inability to pause the game. (We are still investigating this issue. If you are experiencing this, we do want to know more – please let us know!)

The Train Sim World update is available for you to test on Steam. To subscribe to the Update 3 Test Build, follow these instructions:

Subscribing to Test Builds

1. Load Steam and navigate to your Game Library.
   
2. Right-click on Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul and select Properties.
   
3. Select the Betas Tab and from the drop-down box, select u3tb from the list.
   
4. Click Close and Steam will automatically begin to download.
   
5. It’s important that you share your feedback with us, you can do this below on the Steam forums or by submitting tickets to our Support Team.

The Train Sim World Update 3 Test Build download will be approximately 550 MB in size.

Following on from last weeks post as detailed below - we are now releasing Update 2 to all TSW: CSX Heavy Haul owners which addresses the following issues/bugs:

FULL PATCH NOTES

Patch Size: 600mb

Load/Save Issues

• A Crash on loading previous saves has been identified and we believe resolved
  
• The dispatcher not being properly re-initialised on reloading some saves has been resolved
  
• We have identified some control states on the locomotives and rolling stock were not being restored correctly on loading and have rectified this
  
• Objective markers were sometimes not re-appearing on loading a save game.

Optimisation

• We have found some issues with the render distances for Splines and Foliage to be set too far out and have reduced these to more appropriate settings for a decent performance improvement.
  
• Some work has been done to optimise the tasks going on for managing AI trains in the background and reduce their overhead.
  
• We have reviewed dynamic shadow casting and optimised how and where this is being done.
  
• We have removed unnecessary shadow casting from lights in the menu background for a good framerate improvement while in the menu.
  
• There have also been a few other minor optimisations to various areas around the game.

Keyboard Support
We have added support for the following keyboards:

• Turkish
  
• Russian
  
• Czech
  
• US_International
  
• Swiss German
  
• French
  
• French Canadian
  
• Polish
  
• Spanish
  
• Italian
  
• Arabic

Rail Vehicles

• Incorrect ditch light behaviour on GP38-2 and AC4400CW has been fixed
  
• Culling on SD40-2 when looking at rear wall has been fixed
  
• The Dynamic brake on the HUD was showing positive amps when it should be negative, this has now been fixed.
  
• Fuel consumption values for all three locomotives have been adjusted.

Gameplay

• A number of achievements were being issued simultaneously for incorrect reasons, these have all been reviewed and are now working correctly.
  
• We identified an additional situation in which a train could derail and not cause the end-game sequence to trigger.

Audio

• Compressor and Brake discharge audio volume has been increased
  
• Missing hand brake chain sound on box car has been added
  
• Whistle board had an electrical hum sound, this has been removed.

Update 2 will download automatically from Steam and will be approximately 600MB in size.

Following on from last weeks post as detailed below - we are now releasing Update 2 to all TSW: CSX Heavy Haul owners which addresses the following issues/bugs:

FULL PATCH NOTES

Patch Size: 600mb

Load/Save Issues

• A Crash on loading previous saves has been identified and we believe resolved
  
• The dispatcher not being properly re-initialised on reloading some saves has been resolved
  
• We have identified some control states on the locomotives and rolling stock were not being restored correctly on loading and have rectified this
  
• Objective markers were sometimes not re-appearing on loading a save game.

Optimisation

• We have found some issues with the render distances for Splines and Foliage to be set too far out and have reduced these to more appropriate settings for a decent performance improvement.
  
• Some work has been done to optimise the tasks going on for managing AI trains in the background and reduce their overhead.
  
• We have reviewed dynamic shadow casting and optimised how and where this is being done.
  
• We have removed unnecessary shadow casting from lights in the menu background for a good framerate improvement while in the menu.
  
• There have also been a few other minor optimisations to various areas around the game.

Keyboard Support
We have added support for the following keyboards:

• Turkish
  
• Russian
  
• Czech
  
• US_International
  
• Swiss German
  
• French
  
• French Canadian
  
• Polish
  
• Spanish
  
• Italian
  
• Arabic

Rail Vehicles

• Incorrect ditch light behaviour on GP38-2 and AC4400CW has been fixed
  
• Culling on SD40-2 when looking at rear wall has been fixed
  
• The Dynamic brake on the HUD was showing positive amps when it should be negative, this has now been fixed.
  
• Fuel consumption values for all three locomotives have been adjusted.

Gameplay

• A number of achievements were being issued simultaneously for incorrect reasons, these have all been reviewed and are now working correctly.
  
• We identified an additional situation in which a train could derail and not cause the end-game sequence to trigger.

Audio

• Compressor and Brake discharge audio volume has been increased
  
• Missing hand brake chain sound on box car has been added
  
• Whistle board had an electrical hum sound, this has been removed.

Update 2 will download automatically from Steam and will be approximately 600MB in size.

Hi All,

Thank you all once again for your continued feedback!

Following the recent test build, we are now releasing Update 1 to all TSW: CSX Heavy Haul owners which addresses the following issues/bugs:

FULL PATCH NOTES

• VR Client no longer loads unexpectedly and audio does not play through VR headset.
  
• Added keyboard support for RU, NL. BE, CZ, TRQ, HU & Arabic: AB101, AB102AZERTY
  
• Gauge Lights re-mapped to O in Turkish.

Update 1 will download automatically from Steam and will be approximately 220 MB in size.

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If you have played extensively in the U1TB version, here's how to backup and move your game profile, so you won't lose any progress when reverting back to the main game:

1. Go to My Documents in Explorer

2. Find: My Games\TS2Prototype\Saved\SaveGames - this folder is the only destination that profle data is saved in.

3. Copy the files within this folder to a brand new folder on your PC, for example, on the desktop.

4. Load Steam and swap back to the main Train Sim World game experience (right click on the game in your library, choose Properties, select the BETAS tab, go back to NONE.)

5. Go back to My Games\TS2Prototype\Saved\SaveGames - which should now be empty. Copy the desktop folder files back into this folder.

6. Load TSW and you should have your progress stored and available.

If you have any problems/queries with regard to the update, leave a comment below or submit a ticket to our support site where our Support Team will be ready to assist.

Keep the feedback coming guys!

Hi All,

Thank you all once again for your continued feedback!

Following the recent test build, we are now releasing Update 1 to all TSW: CSX Heavy Haul owners which addresses the following issues/bugs:

FULL PATCH NOTES

• VR Client no longer loads unexpectedly and audio does not play through VR headset.
  
• Added keyboard support for RU, NL. BE, CZ, TRQ, HU & Arabic: AB101, AB102AZERTY
  
• Gauge Lights re-mapped to O in Turkish.

Update 1 will download automatically from Steam and will be approximately 220 MB in size.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you have played extensively in the U1TB version, here's how to backup and move your game profile, so you won't lose any progress when reverting back to the main game:

1. Go to My Documents in Explorer

2. Find: My Games\TS2Prototype\Saved\SaveGames - this folder is the only destination that profle data is saved in.

3. Copy the files within this folder to a brand new folder on your PC, for example, on the desktop.

4. Load Steam and swap back to the main Train Sim World game experience (right click on the game in your library, choose Properties, select the BETAS tab, go back to NONE.)

5. Go back to My Games\TS2Prototype\Saved\SaveGames - which should now be empty. Copy the desktop folder files back into this folder.

6. Load TSW and you should have your progress stored and available.

If you have any problems/queries with regard to the update, leave a comment below or submit a ticket to our support site where our Support Team will be ready to assist.

Keep the feedback coming guys!

The future of train simulation has arrived! We are proud to announce that Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul, our latest, next-generation train simulator, is available now on Steam!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530070

The future of train simulation has arrived! We are proud to announce that Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul, our latest, next-generation train simulator, is available now on Steam!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530070

Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul, arriving March 16th on Steam for Windows PC, now available to pre-order!

The time to get on-board Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul has arrived! Today we open the doors for you to pre-order, click add to cart on the link below to get your ticket to be the first to play when it goes live on March 16th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530070

Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul is priced at £24.99 / 34.99€ / $39.99 and if you choose to pre-order, you’ll receive a 10% discount. If you own any of the following versions of Train Simulator, you’ll receive an additional bonus discount of 10% off, saving you a total of 20% off the full price:

Collections

• Dovetail Games Franchise Collection

Train Simulator 2017

• TS2017: Standard Edition
  
• TS2017: Pioneers Edition
  
• TS2017: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2017: UK First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: German First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: US First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: Premium Edition

Train Simulator 2016

• TS2016: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2016: Steam Edition
  
• TS2016: Digital Codes
  
• TS2016: Standard Edition
  
• TS2016: UK First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: German First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: US First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: Epic Journeys
  
• TS2016: Steam Mega Edition

Train Simulator 2015

• TS2015: Standard Edition
  
• TS2015: Steam Edition
  
• TS2015: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2015: Summer Edition

Train Simulator 2014

• TS2014: Standard Edition
  
• TS2014: Steam Edition
  
• TS2014: Boxed Retail

Train Simulator 2013

• TS2013: Standard Edition
  
• TS2013: Deluxe Edition
  
• TS2013: UK Boxed Retail
  
• TS2013: German Boxed Retail
  
• TS2013: USA Boxed Retail

Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012

• Railworks 3: TS2012
  
• Railworks 3: TS2012: Deluxe Edition
  
• Railworks 3: TS2012: Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 3: Haulin’ USA
  
• Railworks 2

Railworks 2

• Railworks 2 UK Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 2 German Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 2 US Boxed Retail

Railworks

• Railworks UK Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks German Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks US Boxed Retail

Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul, arriving March 16th on Steam for Windows PC, now available to pre-order!

The time to get on-board Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul has arrived! Today we open the doors for you to pre-order, click add to cart on the link below to get your ticket to be the first to play when it goes live on March 16th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530070

Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul is priced at £24.99 / 34.99€ / $39.99 and if you choose to pre-order, you’ll receive a 10% discount. If you own any of the following versions of Train Simulator, you’ll receive an additional bonus discount of 10% off, saving you a total of 20% off the full price:

Collections

• Dovetail Games Franchise Collection

Train Simulator 2017

• TS2017: Standard Edition
  
• TS2017: Pioneers Edition
  
• TS2017: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2017: UK First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: German First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: US First Class Edition
  
• TS2017: Premium Edition

Train Simulator 2016

• TS2016: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2016: Steam Edition
  
• TS2016: Digital Codes
  
• TS2016: Standard Edition
  
• TS2016: UK First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: German First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: US First Class Edition
  
• TS2016: Epic Journeys
  
• TS2016: Steam Mega Edition

Train Simulator 2015

• TS2015: Standard Edition
  
• TS2015: Steam Edition
  
• TS2015: Boxed Retail
  
• TS2015: Summer Edition

Train Simulator 2014

• TS2014: Standard Edition
  
• TS2014: Steam Edition
  
• TS2014: Boxed Retail

Train Simulator 2013

• TS2013: Standard Edition
  
• TS2013: Deluxe Edition
  
• TS2013: UK Boxed Retail
  
• TS2013: German Boxed Retail
  
• TS2013: USA Boxed Retail

Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012

• Railworks 3: TS2012
  
• Railworks 3: TS2012: Deluxe Edition
  
• Railworks 3: TS2012: Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 3: Haulin’ USA
  
• Railworks 2

Railworks 2

• Railworks 2 UK Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 2 German Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks 2 US Boxed Retail

Railworks

• Railworks UK Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks German Boxed Retail
  
• Railworks US Boxed Retail