Train Sim World 7 - Discussion

Setting aside the route and loco DLCs, which are a huge smorgasbord, it seems that just in terms of upsdating and upgrading the core program this is the biggest overhaul we have seen since TSW2. DX12? Ray tracing? DLSS? "Epic" (ie JetWash) lighting? The freight mode? Passenger behavior improvements? I don't think we have seen anything with so many improvements in one go for six years

 

Where?
You mean sunshufts and god rays? It's not a ray tracing and has nothing to do with it.

 

I'm not into conspiracies, but I would not be surprised if these graphical improvements were pushed for TSW7 because of the success of Running Train and graphics comparisons between the two.

 

I think they just noticed there were lots of requests for the updated ini from Jetwash after the release of Medway Valley.

They probably also noticed that some ini configurations worked great for some routes and had bad effects on others. This could cause discontent and even the return of newly purchased DLC when it does not perform well with the modified ini.

Probably someone at DTG thought "hey, why don't we apply the ini settings for them? This way people that has the hardware can have the improved graphics even if they don't have a clue about what the ini is. Also less users will touch the ini and then blame us for the bad results the modified ini causes on some DLCs."

 

Another nice bonus this time around that isn't being mentioned is the lack of a time limit on the free starter pack.

 

Just pre-ordered Deluxe. Roll on the 10th but please don't let me down DTG...

 

so looking at the whole year lineup i guess there won't be winter survey. i wondering if tsw8 will have features that were in the 2025 survey like save game slots or manual eot on couplers. but dtg is very busy for the whole year with the line up.

 

I suspect also the abandonment of Gen 8 freed them up to catch up to the 2020s

 

Do we know anything about HDR in TSW7? I am currently using TSW6 with HDR turned on via the engine.ini and ohhh my... the signals and actually any lightsource acts like a lightsource should, but it only works with dx11 because dx12 ruins the tonemapping (i guess). TSW7 will use dx12 natively so if there isn't a proper HDR implemented than we have to look at a bland, undersaturated something without able to see the signal aspects from miles/metres away (turning HDR off turns my oled to a tn panel from the early 2010s)... I know I will be able to use RTX HDR, but it is far from perfect compared to a built-in HDR solution

 

I just placed my pre-order for the deluxe edition or TSW7. I am saving up for my first AMD GPU as I would like to try something different for my upgrade. For the last few years, I have been using Nvidia GPU's, from GTX550Ti --> GTX570 --> GTX1060 and now RTX3070. From what I found online, it looks like Radeon GPU's offer more bang for the buck with higher amounts of VRAM and raw performance overall. I am eyeing a 16GB Radeon RX9070XT around the late fall so I can run everything max with the hopes of building a new AMD system in 2028-2029 on the future AM6 or late AM5 platform

 

Any chances for Train Sim World: CSX Heavy Haul remaster?

 

I don't know but US freight only routes are not so popular....

 

I have had a quick mess with Auto HDR but it leads to weird flashing when clicking the right button to come out of free look.

 

Will the live weather feature apply to all routes or just TSW7 routes?

 

It will work on every route.

 

I assume it will be for all routes. The FAQ makes it clear that Freight Hauler mode will only be compatible with new routes, but there's no mention of Live Weather being restricted in the same way.

 

Live weather is not depend on the route so it works with every route.

 

Some people think you can do raytracing with a reshade filter, it's so misunderstood as a technology.

 

This/ The V 100, like the the similar V 90 (BR 294) and DR V 100 (BR 204) was a general-purpose engine, like the EMD GP-series, and like the British Class 20 (although they had to pair those to get enough power).

 

But apparently still ONLY ONE SAVE SLOT!!!

 

I’m with you on the GTX 1060 — I also used this graphics card for quite some time.

Radeon offers excellent graphics cards that many people ignore due to their conservative nature and the myths about “bad drivers,” high HotSpot temperatures, and other early AMD issues. When buying hardware, you should focus on pure performance, not on Nvidia’s marketing tricks with their DLSS and other gimmicks. Because, first and foremost, we’re paying for the device, not for software technologies. I’m using the RX 7700 XT; the RX 9070 XT will provide excellent performance for resolutions up to QuadHD.

 

Which is still funny, considering Nvidia removed the display of this parameter. But enthusiasts have managed to find a way to read it, and the results are not encouraging.

 

I don’t know the specifics of the temperature situation with Nvidia graphics cards, but temperature readings that used to be considered “hot” may now be within the normal operating range. On hot summer days, they can heat up to ~70 °C (158 °F), and that’s normal. It all depends on the specific graphics card and model; the smaller ones tend to run hotter.

 

When was a GPU running at 70c a concern?

The smaller what? overall card size? cooler size? core area? process node?

 

Temperature limits are roughly the same, with a slight increase to 105°C. There's the chip temperature itself, and then there's the temperature of the chip's hottest spot. And Nvidia hid the latter. And when they were able to look at it, the temperatures for many were such that if it were Radeon, such cards would be replaced under warranty.

 

For what it's worth, I asked Perplexity AI the following question regarding my own (Steam) Desktop setup for TSW 6:

"Provide optimum settings for playing Train Sim World 6 on my Windows 11 PC for: Windows 11, Ryzen 9 PC, 32Gb DDR RAM, RTX 5080 GPU, 4K 144 Hz G-Sync HDR Monitor, Nvidia Control Centre, NVidia App Train Sim World 6 In-Game settings."

The output Had the following headings and provided the settings for my system:

Overall Philosophy

For your hardware, the goal is maximum image quality with smooth frame pacing, not simply chasing the highest FPS.

Train Sim World 6 remains partially limited by Unreal Engine CPU/render-thread behaviour in dense stations and complex routes. Your RTX 5080 is more than powerful enough for 4K.

Target FPS: 90-141 FPS

Windows 11 Settings

Display

• Resolution: 3840
• Refresh Rate: 144 Hz

HDR

Settings → System → Display → HDR

• HDR: On
• Auto HDR: Off

Advanced Display

• Color Format: RGB
• Color Depth: 10-bit (10 bpc)
• Dynamic Range: Full

Gaming

Settings → Gaming

• Game Mode: On
• Xbox Game Bar: Off
• Captures: Off

Graphics

Settings → System → Display → Graphics

Hardware Accelerated GPU (HGS) Scheduling

Settings → System → Display → Graphics → Default Graphics Settings

• HAGS: On

Power Plan

Use:

• AMD Ryzen High Performance or
• Ultimate Performance

Avoid Balanced mode.

NVIDIA Control Panel / NVIDIA App

Create a dedicated profile for:

TrainSimWorld6.exe

Then set settings as follows:
G-Sync Configuration

Correct Configuration

• G-Sync: On
• NVIDIA Control Panel: V-Sync: On
• In-Game V-Sync: Off
• FPS Cap: 141 FPS (3 FPS below refresh rate)

This is the recommended modern G-Sync setup.

Why?

Driver-level V-Sync acts as a safety net when frame rates hit the top of the G-Sync range.

Running V-Sync in both NVIDIA and the game can increase latency and occasionally create micro-stutter.

Recommended NVIDIA Profile

Setting

Value

Monitor Technology: G-SYNC Compatible

Vertical Sync: On

Maximum Frame Rate: 141 FPS (3 FPS lower than monitor maximum refresh rate)

Low Latency Mode: Ultra

Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance

Shader Cache Size: Unlimited (or ≥10 GB)

Threaded Optimization: On

PhysX Processor: GPU

Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled

Image Scaling: Off

FXAA: Off

MFAA: Off

Transparency AA: Off

Triple Buffering: Off

Texture Filtering Quality: High Quality

Negative LOD Bias: Clamp

Trilinear Optimization: On
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

NVIDIA App

Graphics

Automatic Game Optimization

• Off

Driver Updates

• On

Low Latency Mode

Recommended

Ultra

Low Latency Mode Ultra:

• Minimizes CPU → GPU render queue
• Improves camera responsiveness
• Improves cab controls responsiveness
• Reduces perceived input lag

If any micro-stutters occur:

• Switch to On instead of Ultra

Train Sim World 6 In-Game Settings

-DX 12: On (If this causes issues, set -DX 11

Resolution: 3840×2160

Display Mode: Fullscreen

V-Sync: Off

Frame Limit: Unlimited

(Allow NVIDIA to manage frame limiting.)


Graphics Settings

Recommended Profile

Setting

Texture Quality: Ultra
Shadow Quality: High
Effects Quality: High
Post Processing: High
Reflection Quality: High
Vegetation: High
Sky / Clouds: High or Ultra
Fog / Atmospherics: High
View Distance / LOD: High or Ultra
Volumetric Lighting: High
Ambient Occlusion: High
Motion Blur: Off
Screen Percentage: 100%
Engine.ini Optimization (Optional)

Location: Documents\My Games\TrainSimWorld7\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.ini

Under: INI

[SystemSettings]

r.Streaming.PoolSize=8192

or

r.Streaming.PoolSize=12288

This can reduce texture streaming hitching when approaching large stations.

Always back up the . INI file first.

If FPS Drops

Adjust in this order:

First

Reduce:

• Shadows
• Vegetation/Foliage

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Expected Result

You should see approximately 90-141 FPS depending on route complexity, with excellent HDR image quality, smooth G-Sync operation, low input latency, and minimal stutter on your RTX 5080 / Ryzen 9 system.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

I asked the same question in Microsoft CoPilot and got a virtually identical result.

The outcome in my case has seen a significant overall improvement (especially frame rates above 70 FPS virtually all the time) in my in-game experience. What it will do for you ...?

IMPORTANT

(Please ensure you keep a copy of all your current settings before you try the above question in AI for your own specific system).

 

Oh that's a lot of slop, if you made it through the slop well done.

 

@Madduck: Slop? Specifically why?

 

It's AI. It's automatically slop

 

eMAyTeeTee

Not very useful feedback. However, I bow to your superior knowledge. (Nevertheless, I stand by my comment that I have experienced significant improvement in-game using the suggested settings).

 

Not a very useful response from you there either

 

I'm not trying to be sarcastic or critical. I would really appreciate useful feedback from you. To merely condemn a post without a useable reason is of no use to anyone.

 

You continuing this is of no use to anyone either

 

Clearly not.

 

You'd probably have found more helpful settings that you can be sure don't have any inaccuracies or misleading suggestions, and where you will see detailed descriptions of what each feature in engine.ini does, by searching these very forums, since that's undoubtedly part of what the LLM scraped to get that ..

 

For the first time, I'm leaning towards not pre-ordering/buying the latest version. For better or worse I've always pre-ordered the next iteration of Train Sim and I've been playing since MSTS (Microsoft / Kuju days).

Obviously, some of those versions were physical discs so I have no record of how much I played them but looking at my Steam account, TS Classic has the most hours, and from the 'World' franchise, TSW3 was my longest played. I've only played TSW6 for 13.5 hours which isn't good value for money for me! I've even played Wonders of Sodor more.

I think I'm probably just bored with it sadly. [And fed up with the bugs]. The routes, locos and eras are often very similar these days. I'm happy with modern stuff to a degree but I miss BR and earlier, and I very much miss steam.

The NTP remaster and the freight mode both sound good but I fear the freight mode won't be as engaging as it could be / not that well implemented. I'd really love to see a proper career mode and something to make me feel like I'm actually part of the railway, like it's a real job and the trains driven and service provided matters. I'm sure how that would look in game. Hopefully you understand what I mean.

I really want TSW7 to be a success but I think for me right now, it isn't worth buying.

 

You're not the only one who is utterly sick of boring modern units. We have just celebrated 200 years of rail, and arguably the most popular eras of the railway are that from the 1930s to the 1980s - yet it's never really catered for, no ambition or imagination. Just an endless obsession with Desiros, or Electrostars, or other modern units with little character. In 7 iterations of TSW, we have a small handful of locomotives. We have eras completely disregarded continuously, such as Network SouthEast. We have no Mk1 commuter units, no Mk2 or Mk3 EMUs, barely any steam. Such a waste.

 

This could be good, but how do you start it? As a dispatcher or a guard until you've got enough XP from good services to be allowed to drive a train. Start with some route learning scenarios, shorter stopping services before you get the serious express stuff? Or go into hauling freight. It could be a really interesting game mode if it worked right and was sufficiently engaging.

 

Diesel Railcar Simulator has an interesting implementation of this.

 

I'll be honest, while stuff like the 101 is endlessly fun to drive, I do have a soft sot for really getting to know the familiar stuff I ride on regularly inside out.

 

I said it way back, but I think the big issue with career in this game is each DLC gives far too little to do on their own. In truck sim you got a dozen trucks with full customization with a decent sized base map. MSFS gives you the whole world and something like 50 aircraft types that cover basically the whole spectrum of aircraft types out the box. A lot of routes in TSW though only come with one or two types, and more importantly the routes are so limited in scope. Like when you think about it imagine making a career mode for a route like Isle of Wight or Bakerloo, that's the minimum use case you have to design around.

Honestly I wish DTG would bundle a few routes as core content that doesn't get swapped out each year. It's kind of absurd how many times now they needed to bundle in the CSX SD40-2 when they could just include Sand Patch as a freebie at this point. And let's be honest, the amount of people actually buying SPG must be tiny this many years on.

 

How about "My opinions" or "My thoughts"? There are many ways to say it in English.

The "Brutally honest" is just clickbait, self-aggrandising and just embarrassing coming from an adult. And I'm always suspicious of the motives of those who need to massage the algorithm.

None of us preface our comments in here with "Here are my brutally honest thoughts" because there's an understanding that opinions are honest. I feel embarrassed for him, honest I do. Sorry, I mean "Brutally honest, I do".

Anyway, I explain this all in my InstaTube video entitled "TSW7 - You won't believe what DTG have done now", it's got my face looking shocked on a bright background that appeals to children and a big arrow pointing at a train. Because, of course it has.

 

Live Weather, they say. New and smooth, they say.
I saw it in action on a stream. Basically, it's "good" old dynamic weather. Jusr click - and it's a storm.
DTG, why can't you do something right from the first try? All you had to do was take an already-made utility, copy its configs, and paste it into the game. But even this became to complicated for you. This doesn't even evoke anger anymore, only disgust. For all your promises.

 

Im not happy with the preview stream and i have turn it off... Why?! First full run is in bad weather with a lot of fog the second at night... Hallo? What do you try to show here? Im a bit angry here... Do you try to hide stuff?! Please show the route with sun and light clouds and stop with useless weather patterns where we can't see nothing. The stream quality is already worse from it self so bad weather is nothing more than pixels what I see here.

 

I agree. Somehow not very revealing.

The new lighting therefore failed to convince me as well.

 

The core issue is simply how extreme the compression on these streams is. The quality is so low that you can barely see anything of the new lighting. You lose sharpness and any sense of visual fidelity. Because they don’t stream it natively and instead route it through all kinds of intermediate pipelines, the image gets crushed to the point where all clarity disappears. So yes you’ll only really experience it properly on your own PC. The video quality here is just laughable in 2026.

 

Cancelled my pre-order. I would say unfortunately but to be honest, with the state of the game recently I've hardly played in months.

Love that the stream started off showing the new graphics with god-rays etc but failed to mention us console players won't be getting any of the graphics enhancements yet we're still expected to pay the same price whilst getting less.

Didn't watch the rest of the stream so can't comment further.

 

It's not always a storm, if it was the flooding would be biblical and this would have to be Ark Sim World 7 .

It's not the same as dynamic weather either because with that you chose how it starts then it does it's random thing. The whole point of live weather is you don't get to choose how it starts or ends because it's what's happening IRL in that location.

While I'm engaging with you and you're not angry, if just a smidge disgusted, is there some sort of gaming/young people joke relating to your user name? If that's a nickname someone else has given you, then it might be time for you to be concerned that you're giving off the wrong vibes to others.

You do know that you're identifying as someone who gives the impression of being a stalker. It's just a bit creepy that's all. Maybe go for something that doesn't hint at behaviour that mimics a vile, degenerate, illegal act usually carried-out by people who go on to be a threat to the safety of the public until they're in prison?

 

How its going basically.

- Live Weather, Bugged
- Passenger Improvements? Non existent.

Not to mention the quotes of;

"we would love to do that"
"oops, i thought we fixed that"
"i would have to check that with our team"
"this is already fixed in our build and will be patched after release"

Ill keep posting this with any updates as the preview streams go on..

 

improved load times?
Because the images of the trains don't load?