I'm going to post this question again as I didn't get much of an answer. My old windows 7 comp finally bit the dust.
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I bought a Lenovo comp set for Windows 10 with Intel Core 15. I went to Yuri Sos Installing Train Sim on a windows 10 on msts.steam4me.net/. I had the Radeon graphics card replaced with a NVidia GEFORCE GTX 1050 card. I was able to install train sim.
I can access Msts troubleshooter and Editor and tools with no problem. When I click on the Train sim icon to play the game, the outer walls of train sim come on, but nothing else. After about 3 seconds it disappears. Any suggestions? I'm thinking about getting Windows 7 discs and having my comp downgraded to windows7. Thanks Roger.
I had the same sort of problem with Windows 8 with the Radeon Graphics card. Yeah, I wasn't going to go buy another video card to run and old sim. I bought my new one specifically for FSX and for a long time I switched back and forth when I wanted to play MSTS. Then I Installed Open Rails and it kind of sucked on my MSTS Computer for frame rates.
Then I decided I liked the shadows, Changing the time of day within the sim and still have all my AI traffic, changing the weather in game and the cloud cover/fog. So I moved my MSTS folder over to my faster computer and don't even play MSTS anymore. Just Open Rails. I have ran into very few bugs with OR. To me it is MSTS with the graphics that are about as good as whatever the newest version of TS is now. The frame rates are amazing and steady when verticle sync is put on.
If your hard drive is big enough then you can partition it and install Windows 7 and still keep Windows 10. Eventually MSTS will not run on any operating systems in the future. MS had two good things going with simmers, MSTS 2 and the anticipation of Flight Sim whatever. Well they decided to make MS Flight instead and turned a lot of flight simmers off because Flight was a game and it flopped with simmers and gamers. Simmers hated the game aspect and there was not enough of a gaming aspect to keep gamers interested. And we all know what happened with MSTS2. Personally I have invested so much money in MSTS addons that I am so happy that we have OR that use what I have paid for over 15 years.
I will admit that Run 8 looks really good though. My suggestion is try Open Rails on the machine. MSTS doesn't have to work just the content you want to run.
Sorry if that wasn't too much help. Ironroosters If you can access the MSTS Troubleshooter menu have you run the 'Change Video Driver' on it? I recently upgraded to a 1050ti and MSTS wouldn't run until I ran this 'Change Video Driver' BertGood advice. But I'm wondering if you completely followed the standard advice in (here) and at for installing MSTS in Windows 8 & 10 (and, really, anything Vista and up)? The advice from (almost) everybody else about switching to Open Rails and the new Route Editor is good, too. Both are much more modern and compatible with Windows 10 than MSTS ever will be no matter how much you hack. Both do need decent hardware (4 core or better CPU, good GPU) for best performance.
But they let you use pretty much all the stuff developed for MSTS over the years as well as new things coming out that MSTS will never be able to handle. You can install MSTS (outside of Program Files, as described in the links above) then point ORTS at it for use of the route and train assets - no need to actually run MSTS to run trains. But if you really want to use MSTS (to my eyes, for instance, MSTS with Bin still does a slightly better job than OR with scenery appearance -.slightly.) in Windows 10, you can, with your GTX video card. Last edited by mikeebb; at 12:54 AM. Reason: missing word. Yeah some things do look better texture wise. I have played MSTS more than any other sim and I don't like games per say.
I prefer sims. But eventually MSTS will not run on any operating system no matter what you do. Even with Vista and windows 7 I had to start Task Manager and run MSTS on just one core. If not then it would crash randomly and especially when AI trains appeared. When I did run one core and even with a 3 gig processor it would freeze until the AI train was fully 'drawn in'. What I hate is that Microsoft left MSTS and even Flight Sim in the past.
Well Lockheed Martin bought the rights to Flight Sim it seems and call it P3D and it runs better than FSX ever did. The guys from OR seem to be doing the same thing but not charging for it. God Bless them for that and it just keeps getting better. Of course the pain in the butt is changing perimeters in the Engine Files but in OR even the exhaust looks more realistic. Then you can either use Ace or DDS image files. I can take one activity and run it whatever time of day instead of changing the times of the AI traffic to match if the AI runs the full length of the route. Then no more stand offs because you can open a dispatch window and change lights and switches to let the AI go.
You can also use it in game to put AI into a siding to let you stay at track speed. The jekiness is still there sometimes but not as evident as long as you set your refresh rate to 60 on your monitor and use the option of Vertical Sync. Mine is set to 60 locked in my graphics card and in OR and my frame rates very seldom drop to 45 in areas where you may be lucky to get 12 FPS in MSTS. But I remember when 12FPS was 'smooth' when Cascades Crossing from MLT came out. The lowest I see with all settings on high in cab is 57FPS and outside watching the train go by is 49. But I have my viewing distance set to MSTS standards. Distant mountains at 150 miles.
Speaking of, both SLIs Seligman subs I could not run with all the trees in the mountains over 8-13 FPS in MSTS but in OR no less that 42. Plus the San Francisco peaks are visible unless other scenery is in the way from Winslow. That is one place I know very well. With MSTS I had to exchange the tree groups with single trees and rename the ace file. The forest looked pretty bare.
In OR with all the trees it looks just about right. I do say give it a try. Hell I still play MSTS on my old machine sometimes. But the newer stuff coming out won't even run in MSTS. Way too many polys. Got a lot of good years and enjoyment out of MSTS and still need it for Open Rails but Open Rails is what MSTS2 should have been. Hell it is probably better than what MSTS2 would have been.
For a long time I was unwilling to change but when I did, Wow! Thank you to the Open Rails team for pushing old MSTS into the future. Sorry because I know this is the MSTS section. But both are fun and both are like your first vehicle if you still have it and your newer vehicle. You have to constantly fix and tweak the old one but the Open Rials team is fixing and tweaking the 'Newer one' like a dealership would with recalls.
BTW both my new and first which I still own are Jeeps. So not much different than MSTS and OR. But seriously I don;t know what to tell anyone other than good luck running MSTS on Windows 10 because it sounds like a lot of work to get it to run. It may be the last OS that it may or may not run with. Eventually it won't run on an OS in the future no matter what you do.
I ran MSTS for fourteen years and when did it come out? Hopefully OR will run for as long spanning so many different versions of Windows. I actually like OR better than the Rail Sim or Train Sim 'yearly' franchise. But all of that is just my opinion though. I don;t know what to tell anyone other than good luck running MSTS on Windows 10 because it sounds like a lot of work to get it to run There are absolutely no more problems running MSTS under Windows 10 than with Win 8, Win 7, etc. All you need to do is follow a few very simple rules, which have been posted on this site numerous times! In order to run modern routes, MSTS needs a 3GHz processor at least and I suspect if you're only getting 8 - 13 fps, yours is well below that.
For me, routes, for the most time, run at between 40 and 60 (limited to 60); this is with an Intel i5 4790K running at 3.4GHz (stock) and an NVIDIA 750ti 2GB video card. Ged, what I am getting at is that MSTS is an older sim, still good but way past its time. But no, my windows7 computer is 3 gigs for the processor but has the ATI card and not a good one. 8-13 FPS was the Seligman routes in the mountains with all the trees. Everywhere else it was good. But now I have a 3.7 GHZ processor that my Radeon allows me to max out at 4 and OR runs better than MSTS ever did.
Most of the time with MST I would get about 40FPS but with OR it is steady at 60 which is limited through VS. When objects load though it hiccups but not like even the most basic MSTS ever did.
Like I said, eventually MSTS will not run on newer OS's. I am surprised it has ran as long as it has on different OS's With OR my frame rates are in triple digits but limiting to the refresh rate in the program and the card settings makes a difference in smoothness. Like I said I got so much enjoyment during my down time and off time with MSTS and the same with FSX. But Microsoft don't really support either sim anymore. So sometimes it is time to move on and leave that first car in the garage and keep it just for memories and to drive every now and then. In my opinion MS really dropped the ball for it's sim communities.
Lockheed Martin saw the potential and bought the rights. How the hell are you going to use MS Flight as a legitimate training simulator to fly a plane?
I just bought the license for P3D not too long ago and LM supports it. Hell it was headache to install FSX on my new computer.
With P3D all I did was download and then ready to go. Most third party content designers are making content for both. We see what happened to Streamlines.
They are making new content for OR. Although they really need to get on a curve for the DDS textures. DDS seems to work better than ACE files. I just bought the CN SD70M-2 set and the higher numbers had so weird colors on the textures that the lower numbers did not. I use DXT Bitmap to make DDS textures from the ACE textures and all look good now.
I know, it is a learning curve and we tend to like what we are used too. I am no different. I tried OR when it first came out and the sun was red. I left it alone and continued with MSTS.
Now they are getting the bugs worked out and every new version is better and better. Try OR 1.2 and you may be surprised. With all the flight simmers and to a lesser extent the train simmers I am totally in shock that MS just totally disregarded us for gamers. So at least we have LM for Flight Sim and OR for Train Sim. MS made it pretty clear what they think of us. I am kind of older and I find sims way more exciting than games. War games, I have been there and done that in real life and there is no restart when you get killed.
Grand Theft Auto? I never once thought about what that game personifies or contains. I have worked for a RR and still hold a Private pilot's license and the rental and fuel you use will kill your extra funds. I also drove trucks and have been a private security contractor mostly on commercial vessels in a certain area recently.
Never once did I ever have an end goal other than doing my job and getting from point A to point B safely and alive with all equipment intact. BTW when was the last time you heard about an incident like the Mearsk Alabama? Jesus, I really need to quit tipsy typing, LOL. But seriously I have all kinds of time now because the last few years has allowed me to retire early. So I have to learn a whole different thing to tweak the Sim.
Thank god I have enough cab views from my previous MSTS working installation that all I have to do with a new train set especially from Trainsimulations that I add the new CVF to it. That is another personal preference. I don't need to see the brakes but really like to see the reverser and throttle and more surrounding inside environment.
Maybe I will post some pics of my personal cabviews. Anyway sorry for the long post and blame Budweiser for my rambling LOL.
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