Regarding realism and presentation (new content is beginning to appear for it that is too complex to work in MSTS).
Msts route building software simulator#
There are a few commercial train sims that don't use MSTS content and are not compatible with MSTS routes.There's also a open source simulator that runs well in current Windows, and can run most MSTS-based content and routes though moving in different directions
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Officially, it's unsupported in Windows after XP. Of Windows (especially after 7) - it can't be just installed with any expectation of working correctly, even if the old CDs (especially Disk 2) can be read, and necessary updates are no longer available - and simply doesn't work with certain combinations of MSTS itself (if you have a copy) requires heroic measures to run in modern versions That huge collection of community-developed add-on content for MSTS will never be duplicated in newer train sims, much like with Flight Sim, and some are true works of art. Requires getting either a used copy or a pirated copy. That requires that one have MSTS installed, of course. MSTS provides, in effect, a standard library of objects and trains that are used in add-on content. Most) of the free ones make use of some objects in the default routes. Many add-on routes have been developed, and many (arguably,
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It was the firstĪnd still, as a single program, most successful train simulator game, partly due to timing and partly to its relatively open attitude toward re-use of scenery and train objects in add-on content. Microsoft Train Simulator (MSTS) has been off the market for nearly a decade (since the Activision release disappeared) and closing in on two since MS itself stopped selling it, but it's still the basis for an active enthusiast community.