Unfortunately, the smoothness of the animation on the Medway Valley Line has dropped significantly for me in TSW7. And no, I haven’t set the graphics to ‘epic’ settings. In TSW6, I only noticed mild stuttering between Strood and Cuxton and when approaching Maidstone West. The rest of the route was perfectly smooth. In TSW7, despite stable FPS (above 60 FPS), I’m seeing mild stuttering along almost the entire route, while around Strood and Maidstone West the stuttering is so severe that not only the visuals but even the sound get cut out. This doesn’t mean the route is no longer playable, but the driving experience has noticeably suffered. In TSW7, I’m really only interested in the real-time weather (the train guard simulation is built into the Class 375 model anyway, so I don’t use the one in TSW7), so worst-case scenario, I’ll revert to TSW6. But perhaps there’s something that can be done about it?
No way!!! I haven’t driven the 375 yet on Medway but I have done a 700 run and the route on PS5 is far more stuttering.
Just tried Medway Valley also, can confirm the motor sounds are missing from the 375’s. Performance was fine on the SEHS section of the route, but took a free roam service from Strood for a couple of miles & had near constant FPS fluctuation. This is also on PS5.
I noticed this too. The recent patch to Medway was not implemented on PS5 because it broke the traction sounds again. I was perfectly happy with that, as the fixes were not crucial and I liked the sounds. Might be that the build with this patch was accidentally released on the TSW7 version of Medway. Hope this gets corrected soon.
Jetwash has kindly confirmed on another thread it was this exact issue, a patch being accidentally released, they’re working on it with DTG. Firefly are a great dev they’ll get it sorted I have no doubt about it
PC here. Ran this route for the first time. I like it pretty well. Don't have a lot of feedback. At one point at the start of the run in the north I thought I saw some cars floating or stacked in a weird way. Everything else was pretty smooth and looked ok. Nice set of layers. I like the straight stretch to Tonbridge. I'm not blown away by the setting or scenery as some people were. It's fine. I did wonder if it is really ocean-going vessels on all those canals and not canal boats?
If no one has noticed that medway Valley has had the update for dispatcher mode and rainbows if they will appear was pushed out ether on purpose or accidentally on playstation. Class 375 now has the sound bug of been very quiet Motor sounds. Hopefully the bug will get crushed and not swept under the rug. Video on ps5
It’s a Firefly route, they won’t sweep it under the rug. It’s a complicated issue that hasn’t been properly identified because it’s so bizarre and logically shouldn’t happen. JetWash will be able to provide a much better answer than me, I’m only reading his posts and basically copying what’s been said. As I understand it the wrong patch went out but they need to be able to get a fix on it so the route can update as time evolves. The very fact TSW6 PS5 sounds work is a bit of a miracle
If I remember that the class 375 on medway released broken on ps5 on the sounds so they can fix it again but they do need to stop it from happening again and again
