Enough Is Enough!!! The Ongoing Saga!!! 2 Year Anniversary

Still not page 159

Edit: yes page 159

 

You win!

 

so so close LOL

 

Class 159 to celebrate page 159

 

almost rip anyway now :/

 

LOL who would have thought a privatised game about trains would end up going the same way as privatised rail :-D

 

I must have missed its period of being a publicly-owned entity!

 

Nice! What a train to end this

 

Indeed. Though the 24 carat motive power for a trip over the Waterloo to Exeter route was a Class 50 and Mark 2A consist (with the Class 33 a close second).

 

Given the states record on running any kind of industry we’ll soon be wishing it was privatised again. CTDs will be as regular as a good old strike.. lol

 

Random thing entirely divorced from all the current happenings, but I think it's worth bringing up, Xbox are raising their prices again.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/25/xbox-console-price-update/

Notably the base price for the Series S is now the same as the launch price of the PS5 back in 2020. They're also dropped the 2TB model entirely now due to memory prices.

In the context of this game it does drive me nuts that people just say "Get better hardware" in response to all the performance problems. Meanwhile the pricing for said hardware is the absolute worse it's ever been, it's crazy how unnatural this generation has been for hardware pricing. At this point in the 8th gen at retail you could pick up PS4's for $250, or a New Nintendo 2DS for $100. Meanwhile right now it would be considered a great victory just to see the PS5 be at $499 again, which is just insane to me.

 

It was a good advice until the end of October last year though, I am a victim myself, even though I am on PC, I only have 16GB of RAM and am stuck with 9th gen i5 CPU. Ain't no way I pay over twice as much for new RAM as I would pay for a desired new CPU.

 

I spent 5k on a build right before ram prices went insane in 2024 (7800x3d, 4080super, 32gb ram) and performance is fine, other than the poor implementation of shadow rendering. I get at least 100fps on all ultra settings at 4k. I've tried all the "mods" on that train sim site, and they either don't really make any improvement or introduce stuttering (especially if they're using scripts which inject through ue4ss) in the end I just had claude analyze and rewrite an ini and godmode sav for ue4ss and had him tune it to my system. Works 100x better than the original mod and fixes shadows.

 

Much the same applies to PCs, the same system that I bought in September last year is now getting on for 50% more expensive - the price of SSDs, memory and GPUs have all risen substantially, mostly because they're bought in bulk for AI data centres.