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:
Load/Save Issues
- 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.
Optimisations
- 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.
Keyboard Support
- 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.
Rail Vehicles
- General improvements to the brake pipes.
Audio
- Missing coupling audio added.
- Engine audio improvements.
- Horn audio improvements.
- Improvements to the Cab Occlusion system.
Known Issues
- 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
- Load Steam and navigate to your Game Library.
- Right-click on Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul and select Properties.
- Select the Betas Tab and from the drop-down box, select u3tb from the list.
- Click Close and Steam will automatically begin to download.
- 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.