Microsoft Train Simulator
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Developers | |
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Kuju Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Microsoft | |
Release dates | |
Windows | 2001 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Microsoft Train Simulator is a singleplayer game.
Key points
- Small but dedicated community with large amounts of custom routes, trains, other types of mods, and editing tools available
Availability
Essential improvements
Version 1.2 Patch
- Patch 1.2 (Download the correct version for your language)
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Route]\*.sav[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Each individual camera view FOV must be configured by editing [GAME INSTALL FOLDER]\GLOBAL\camcfg.dat |
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Windowed | Run with the command line parameters -vm:w or -vm:w,[width],[height],[color bit depth] by adding them to the target of a shortcut to train.exe |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Run with the command line parameter /anisotropic by adding them to the target of a shortcut to train.exe |
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Anti-aliasing (AA) | FSAA - Enable by running with the command line parameter /fsaa by adding them to the target of a shortcut to train.exe . |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | Show FPS by pressing Shift+Z | ||
120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, train, and ambient volume sliders available | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Enabled by default |
Issues fixed
Game does not start when using AMD/ATI video graphics cards on Windows 8 and later
Use jackfuste's "MSTS_AMD_BUGFIX.EXE" to create a patched version of an ATI .DLL file [3] |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | Intel Pentium II 350 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 3D video hardware acceleration 4 MB of VRAM | |
Other | 4x or higher speed CD-ROM Drive |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 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).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?322502-Will-Windows-10-support-AMD-graphic-card-in-MSTS/page2