Dovetail Games Temporary Workarounds To Help Performance / Reduce Crashes

Hello folks,

As we’ve shared previously, our teams are continuing to investigate ways we can improve performance for Train Sim World 5 core routes, in particular on West Coast Main Line South, to help prevent textures loading at a lower resolution, and crashes from happening. We’re hoping to share more optimisations with you all soon in the new year, but as we move into the holiday period, we wanted to give you some insights that our testing teams found that may help you reduce the number of issues you run into when you play.

This should be most beneficial for those on console platforms (PlayStation and Xbox) who are having performance issues. We can’t say for sure how much of an impact the following changes will have, but from our initial testing, we’ve been able to avoid certain crashes by following the guidance below.

Potential Workarounds:

• Weather – We’ve found that many crashes seem to occur when dynamic weather is active in areas, especially in Rainstorm or Snowy conditions, where a high amount of memory is already being used (for example near Euston station). We recommend using Custom – Clear weather to help prevent crashes happening.
• Photo mode – Opening Photo Mode and taking photos when entering or around areas of high memory usage can also lead to a crash, so be aware that if you’re lining up the perfect screenshot, be sure you’ve saved and be prepared just in case.
• Display Mode – Using 4k has been found to increase the likelihood of a crash, so please be mindful of this, and if you’re experiencing a number of crashes, consider lowering this to HD.
• Custom Liveries – You may find that turning off any custom liveries you have on your loco when driving may help prevent texture memory issues or crashes.
• Class 390 Pendolino – We’ve recently made some optimisations to the Class 350 in our November 17th Update, however we’ve not yet implemented optimisations for the Class 390, so if you’re still experiencing issues with performance after going through the above steps, it may be worth trying to use the Class 350 in the same area to see if that helps prevent issues/crashes.

Following some of these steps may be difficult when playing specific scenarios and modes, but we wanted to give you all the knowledge we have as we keep working hard to improve the experience as much as possible.

Thank you all for your patience, we’ll be back in the new year to update you once we’ve got more news and optimisations to share. Have a great holiday season!