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#1
5th November 2008, 12:06
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Well I've gone and done it!
We have bought EA Games Rail Simulator from Amazon. Hopefully it should run OK on our laptop (we ran a test on EA Games website) I've never tried one of these things,I'm hoping I can model all the steam locos I have in my gallery,or at least some of them...
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7th November 2008, 14:26
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Help
Oh bu**er. Installed it,got the start screen and selected a route(Newcastle to York) but can't get it to work. I get the Choose loco screen and can move round the scene with the mouse but can't get any further. Tried clicking on a train,or a sign,nothing. Looks like it aint gonna work on our Vista equipped laptop!
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8th November 2008, 13:45
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What spec is your laptop?
I find it runs much better on my Windows XP partition than Windows Vista. The game does take a lot of power to run. Sounds like you're in the game though. You double click a loco you want to drive in free play mode, in a senario you're already in control of that loco. There is a leaflet with the game showing the game and loco controls.
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#4
8th November 2008, 13:53
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Err its square and has keys and a screen-lol
Its ok we got it working. We went on EA Games's site and downloaded an update. It works but is a bit slow,our laptop is a little under power.(an Acer Aspire 5315 with 1 gig Ram)
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9th November 2008, 22:23
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That's cool.
Like I say, Vista is the bigger problem, games perform much better in XP for me, so I keep both OS's on my laptop. You can turn the graphic levels in the options down to get frame rate back, by the way.
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23rd November 2008, 14:57
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Is anyone running Microsoft Train Simulator under Vista? I don't think they've released a vista-compatible version yet, tho they have with Flight Simulator.
I wanted to get this rather than the other sims as I believe it has more add-ons, the ELR/Bury diesel group do a few interesting ones, though I too am new to Rail sims. Any advice? I have a new Sony Vaio laptop, couldn't really tell you the spec offhand though.
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#8
23rd November 2008, 22:10
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5th January 2009, 01:19
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