I was wondering if there was a way of having two completely separate launch instances of the game as detailed below, please read and understand what I'm asking before replying though, thanks. Instance one. Game playing mode 64bit Fullscreen using my preferred screen resolution setting of 3620 x 1527 Instance two. Editor mode 32bit Windowed using something like 1280 x 1024 resolution I know you can use separate desktop launch icons and start either 32 or 64bit instances my real interest and question is regarding the separate screen states and resolutions. Atm I'm launching the game and changing options in settings then quitting then relaunching, this is a pita. I don't even mind if it's launching via a batch file btw.
Having two icons would let you choose between 32 and 64 bit but that's the easy part and both .exes take their settings from the same player profile file. I guess there's no reason not to have two profiles (called playerprofile... something- sorry, on the iPad) that you can rename or stored handy ready to copy into the Railworks directory before you start. Could probably do that with a .bat file.
Just tried on my machine, and no, not possible Opening 32 bit from steam and 64 bit directly makes no difference either. Change settings in one changes both etc etc
Sorry not sure what file or location you're referring to tbh, if when you're next on your PC you can give me further details then that'd be great.
You'd think there'd be a config file somewhere wouldn't you, I know there's config.xml & config_fullscreen.xml files but neither of these seem to bear any real reference to the current settings, in fact I'm wondering if these are just leftover scraps from earlier legacy versions of the game.
Sorry I forgot about this didn't I? The file is called PlayerProfile.bin and should be in RailWorks\Content. I should make it clear I haven't tried what I suggested but it's come up in discussions where someone has inadvertantly lobotomized TS by making changing their configuration to something that their system doesn't support like the wrong graphics resolution and the advice has been to delete this so TS can make a new file with the default settings next time it starts. My suggestion was that it may be possible to have different PlayerProfile.bin files to suit your different purposes and use whichever one is appropriate.
For some reason I managed to open two instances of TS2020 in 64bit. I had opened one as I needed to make a Screen shot which I then minimized using Alt+Tab to use Paint.net After I had made and save the Screen shot I click on the 64bit start Icon and it opened in the normal menu Even though my previous version was in a paused scenario Strange Peter
The reason it does NOT work, BTW, is simply the same reason you can only use Steam games on one system at a time. As soon as you open a game instance, any other instance is immediately closed, including on other machines. You are warned before opening the other instance on another computer, at least. You'd have to have a non-Steam version of a game to work around this. I did this when recreating Rollercoaster Tycoon scenarios in the third version of the game, and there is even a site that compiles the work of many in this aspect, myself included. Of course, Train Simulator is only on Steam. So there is your answer.
You've got the wrong end of the stick I'm afraid, it was never about having two instances running at the same time it's about avoiding the need to run the game just to be able to then change graphics settings (namely full-screen or windowed and 64 or 32bit) then exit and then restart again.
