Trainz Questions

Trainz 09. Good choice! Don't update to service pack 4 though, overall its seems to have received a negative reaction with regards to performance and compatability, and I have to say I've experienced this aswell, regardless of settings. Before hand I was running mine on top whack settings, with a 1Gb Radeon 5770 and it was managing about 20fps. Now in the same areas its managing about 4fps, and you cant downgrade either

The DLS is notoriously poor, it'll come up with a sign at the bottom of Content Manager saying 'unable to connect'; easy to miss. Sometimes you can go days without connecting sucessfully, the only solution is to pay for a first class ticket (don't bother... thats oversubscribed) or just keep trying and trying.

Its very difficult to make anything, it seems, unless you like endlessly fiddling with the equivilant of a CAD programme. You might be better off looking for a recent electrostar, then finding if you can a copy of paint shed, an application that came with very old versions of Trainz. This probably wont work though, as the modeling methods have changed over the years.

Sorry to be on a downer with it! Its a great programme overall, and very intuitive, but some bits and pieces with how it works are extremely frustrating.