Route Wcml: Crewe - Preston - Feedback Thread

Ive been getting memory issues when I've tried to do thunderbird are go scenario for example on xbox series x and also blurry issues

 

I‘m getting constant CTDs or out of memory errors on Series X in scenarios or timetable mode. From release yesterday until now I’ve only managed to complete one 86/4 service with the obligatory blurred textures. Switching from 4K to HD changes absolutely nothing. Sorry but what is DTG doing in QA? Managed to get a refund - sorry JT I love your DLCs but not with that ton of problems on consoles here. Maybe I’ll get this in a few months in a sale after some performance patches (yeah I’m still dreaming about this….)

 

When are DTG finally going to get off their asses and sort their optimisation once and for all? I honestly can’t believe I paid £30 for a product where the textures completely die 5 minutes after loading and there’s a 50% chance of completing a service without the game crashing.

 

Agreed, +1 regarding adding arrival times to the destinations please!

 

If I do refund this later, have to say that’s 75% on DTG and only 25% on JT. As I said in the other thread, the third parties need to read the riot act to DTG, get off their a***s and start fixing the core issues with some urgency. Spend the 25 or 30% whatever the commission from these add ons to employ some competent programmers and sort out the mess.

 

Just had only my second-ever CTD on TSW.
Was running 7T75 Bickershaw Colliery to Fiddlers Ferry Part 1.
It was right at the end when I stopped at the signal.

Got a feeling this happened to someone else as well? The headcode feels familiar.

 

I am on Xbox Series S and even though I own Blackpool Branches the Class 142 'Pacer' does not show up on the timetable trains list for WCML: Crewe to Preston. The pacer doesn't even show up as an AI service. You can see proof in the photos above.

 

Platform PS5

Free roam.
Location: Walton Old Junction Time 9.28am

Two services facing each other at red shunt signal.
0A05 Arpley Shunting Class 08 with HAA and 2x choppers against service 6E13 Fiddlers Ferry to Healey Mill Part 2 Class 47/3 with HAA.

 

It requires all the layers I listed earlier as it interworks with other wagons earlier in the day.

 

Please can the arrival times be put back as soon as possible. For me there’s really not much point in driving a train with no scheduled arrival time. The interest is in trying to run to time. Just meandering along and showing up when you please feels nothing like realistic railway operations. Thank you!

 

I promised myself no more day 1 purchases, so I brought this on day 2

First service selected 00:00 4S55 Garston FLT to Glasgow FLT, now I was expecting a north bound run but I spawned at Weaver Junction heading to Crewe, not sure if this a wrongly described service or it does a weird reversal at Crewe? Regardless signal NH12 on entry to Bashford Hall sidings showed red with no shunting signal illumiated although signaller told me to proceed as signals indicated.

EDIT: It does indeed seem to reverse but I didnt have permisson to continue the service in freeroam and run the loco round the train and have to pick it up again once the AI has completed the run arouind?

Not the best first impression if I am honest having to pass a signal at red, but hopefully this can be fixed otherwise in the first patch.

On PC Steam

 

Conductor mode may be the most useless thing on this route in the 142. Zero passengers (PS5)

 

I notice your screenshot shows you have ten of the layers disabled, is the 142 definitely activated in the layers menu and is Blackpool Branches currently installed on your system?

 

I dont know if Im am just being unlucky here but service no 2 timings below. I do think that the timetable could do with a 2nd pass

That said the night lighting is to JT usual standard and performance for me even on just a 2nd run is as go as any route I own.

Good work

 

It seems they forgot to model the entire Crewe-Chester line including Chester MPD as I remember it in the 80s and 90s, anyone else seeing this?

 

Yes, I'm sure I have all the layers for the pacer active.

 

Enjoying the options this route has to offer! I've been playing on PS5 pro, all layers included.

The only issues I've run into so far include:
-Blurry textures popping in and out around Warrington and down towards Crewe
-Frame rate drops around Warrington
-Service 1A61 (express Preston to Crewe) pathed behind 7T75 (a slow coal drag) that was routed onto the fast lines until Warrington, coming from Wigan springs sidings/depot
-If substitutions disabled in advanced settings, all class 86/4 locomotives in session have same number 86420

 

Is it just me misidentifying something or is there a collectible (route poster) on Newton-Le-Willows that you can't get?

 

There are no collectables on them stations along that line.

 

had the same issue with the route hop that the route hopping from BPO is locked. also do the 31,40,45 layer in on the route i seem to be missing all three.

 

This is a core thing, but 5F25 Preston to Wigan Springs Branch ECS working - like so many ECS services in TSW - has passengers.