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Revision as of 18:04, 20 February 2024

Rails Across America
Rails Across America cover
Developers
Flying Lab Software
Publishers
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows September 17, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Simulation
Vehicles Train
Rails Across America on MobyGames
Rails Across America on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Rails Across America is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view building and simulation game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v2 DRM
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
[1] Pre-packaged with DDrawCompat.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Pre-packaged with DDrawCompat.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DDrawCompat.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.75, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\gamedata\user.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2680190/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\*.svg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2680190/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

General in-game settings
General in-game settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Background, music, alerts, controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only.
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, Me, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
AMD K6-2 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References