[guide] How To Legally Install Old Ts Versions Next To Tsc

I have been collecting old boxed versions of TS for a little while when they're cheap on Ebay. I only need to get TS2015 and everything after TS2016.

 

I have a cupboard full of old PC games with their original box, dating back to the late 1990s, sadly, no TS ones.

 

I have a disk copy of TS2014 from when I first started playing and based on this thread (which I'm autistically confused over the technical aspects), I can install a copy of that ver. onto a separate drive, copy my Assets, Contents, and Routes folder, then have a version that still works without the corrupted core updates from yesteryear? I'm stuck on two questions:
1) if I install from the disk, I would be stuck with the 32-bit version that came with the game then?
2) Has anyone confirmed if these older versions are capable of running the higher-hardware DLC, i.e. Searchlight AC4400?

 

I have a backup of RW3 on disk, and I tried to install, but it connected to Steam and installed the latest version. This was a few years ago.

 

Torfmeister,
When it comes to running v42.5: What is the "newest" route you've found that works in that version?. I'm guessing any route running 000xx...would work up to...I'm guessing 2016? As that was the version I was introduced to, it would be very cool to go back to that one (and possibly fix the Hamburg-Hannover route picture bug).
Another question I have: according to one of my backups, I have a "clean" v71 and a "modded" v69. Would copying over files between them cause issues?

 

You are replying to Torfmeister who is not on this group anymore.

Seems a bit strange to install the 2016 version to Fix the route picture bug.
I got around that by copying the file from the Steam page then resize/renaming it


Save the file above them copy it to Railworks\Content\Routes\00000037-0000-0000-0000-000000002013\RouteInformation

I run v72.5 as I can have my European routes and assets on that with the UK route & assets on the current version.