I found my old disks of MS Train sim, I also have a lot of routes I bought separate. So last night installed MSTS tried to start it and got error message, forget the the wording now but no way would it run, I was in Admin mode as well. In the end I uninstalled it, I'm on Windows 10 as well by the way. Col.
I’m not sure if anyone else has a solution, but the only way I could get MSTS running was on a Win XP Virtual machine that I cloned off an old laptop. Haven’t been able to get it to run on any of the newer versions of windows. For me it’s no longer worth the effort. It looks incredibly dated now.
Ty I just thought I would give it a try seeing as I now have a RailDriver, shame in one way as I have fair few addon routes I got years ago. Tiger are you the Tiger from Flight Sim by any chance? Lamplight, I am not that bothered about getting another rail sim, like I said it was mainly to try the Raildriver out on MS as I remember I always had problems driving it back then, but thank you any way. Col.
It’s not another sim, it’s the open source upgrade of MSTS, which runs mostly without any problems on modern machines. It’s a good, reliable way to play MSTS content.
Ah sorry, I'm showing my ignorance, funny I was looking on YouTube and saw what looks like a similar type of software, forgot it's name but looks like it does the same thing. Col.
OpenRails is brilliant. Technically it's a reverse engineered MSTS, as the source code was never released. So the devs made a program that tries to behave like MSTS - it's NOT a source port. My home route Karlsruhe-Freudenstadt (ProTrain 16) Menu: You can also download the free BNSF Scenic Sub (Stevens Pass) - quite high-fidelity models
OpenRails is the way to go. I recently went through all my old MSTS content and it runs great through OR, which also has native RailDriver support. OR also will upscale visuals for modern machines so you don't get that low res grainy look MSTS has.
The SecureROM Copy Protection used on MSTS (along with many other games from the millennium period) is blocked by Windows 10 security. You'd need a No-CD patch to run it on a modern system. Obvious because piracy potential I can't tell you where to find one but most games from that era have one
There used to be a site called Steam4me which had some very useful guides on getting MSTS up and running on newer hardware and operating systems. Sadly it has been taken down though presumably still available on the Wayback machine. I think the problem with the MSTS CD’s is they had some sort of copy protection which current Windows flatly refuses to work with. If you have access to an older Win XP machine you could physically copy the discs to a thumb drive and use that to install. Yes Open Rails is very good, but the catch is to run your older content you still need many of the files and route assets from the original MSTS. I don’t think OR ever got permission to redistribute those. Personally I only keep MSTS/OR installed for a few old favourites like North Wales Coast and if I ever need the HD space, well it’s kind of top of the triage list to go.
Thanks, I gave up on it smd [ut them back in a box, it is no big deal as I have TSW4 and not long bought TSC and got a few routes to keep me occupied, I bought some in the sale. Col.
Don't blame you Col. It was good in the day but in all honesty I've moved on. So much to do in TSC and TSW plus other train and non train related games it's probably never going to get fired up again. So many of the support sites have gone too, UKTS obviously the biggest casualty. Full credit to MS and Kuju still for having the vision to make it and testimony that it outlasted many other games from that era (Freelancer, Links Golf!) and spawned the successful franchises that DTG now operate.
I normally go on FlightSim, I used to do the textures too for the aircraft, I did fictional ones as that is what I liked, also tweaked a lot of the files testing stuff out, sometimes spend all day on something to get it to work. I've has WW2 Submarine Sim too, that is good, at first the graphics were OK but as it advanced they got a lot better, I was on a team that changed one sim from German U-Boats to American subs as some didn't like being on the Axis side. I still have the disks and keep saying I'll try it again. I also build PC's, I get older PC's and renovate them by taking them apart, cleaning them up and adding better parts, the one I'm on now is one I did up from parts I had. I'm getting old now and things are advancing all the time leaving me behind, I'm 76 next month so I know my limitations. Col.
