Enough Is Enough!!! The Ongoing Saga!!! It's Almost The 3 Year Anniversary

3 crashes on my PS5 in the last few days. Grrrr.

 

The West Cornwall Local, and it's Class 150 are not as bad as Alan Thompson's Class 90 - Even Skyhooks DB 185, the original version, is better than having ATS wee on our heads and call it rain, i mean the Class 90

 

There is my answer. Going to hold off buying TSW6 for now I think

 

It’s been ok up until now… I’d just like to know why it’s started crashing now.. it’s a bit disconcerting to think you might end up wasting an hour or two of your time…. Repeatedly… if that’s happens, then I will get cross!

 

Same for me as well.

 

WCL is okay if you run in the dark (or at least twilight) and do a Class 45 or 47 run (not the 40 as they have no place in Cornwall!).

 

So it seems this thread will not even be locked in the end but totally gone on 30 June 2026...

 

it’s been a good run, but ultimately our minds have been made up for us

 

Well I guess this thread won't make it's three year anniversary...

 

Where's this come from?

 

It is in the announcement thread

 

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/upcoming-changes-to-the-dovetail-games-forums.98464/

The big ones.

 

We should at least try and get one more page, so we can get a 159 on Honiton Bank picture on there!

 

Yes! Let's do that

 

Just saw the announcement. Genuinely idiotic.

 

It is. And it potentially could end the community here. Makes me sad.

 

Though it says existing threads will stay open isn't it?

 

How can a thread be kept open if the forum section its in is going to be removed?

 

Read only. A bit like what they did with the CTS forum, though of course that is now being excised completely.

 

btw - is it as hot as it is in Germany at the moment in England? That could explaine the situation probably. I might not even owner of my thaughts with this heat.

 

Why would they remove the Gen Discussion forum, am I missing something here? It makes no sense, where else would we discuss general matters?

 

Well i suppose the correct response to DTGs latest idiotic move is to apologise to the 3rd parties that actually try, and to DTG i say raise the Jolly Roger, and give them a royal salute Scottish style

 

It's hot enough to boil a monkey's [censored], to quote Monty Python.

 

Or possibly the Devils in Skirts salute from Carry On Up The Khyber.

 

My god i loved the carry on films, they were so bad they became epic LOL

 

Same here ... thank god we have a AC unit here, but it struggles more and more to cool this office here.

 

After reading the announcement of closing the General Discussion forum, I really had my enough is enough moment.

 

Is this on page 159 yet?

 

Seems not.

 

No. Try again.

 

How about now?

 

maybe now?

 

Doesn't seem to be. I think it's getting close though.

 

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.

 

I think I’d take the class 33 over the 50 but each to their own!


Shame DTG never utilised the WSR class 33 more, it would have been fantastic in BR blue with snowploughs on a period SR route!

 

Oh... This thread is still going on...

 

It also needs a better sound set as very muffled and more like a fast idle rather than “shredding” away, as we used to say!