Train sim for complete novice

[Jimini]

Evening all,

In my 41 years on this planet, I've not yet dabbled with a train driving simulator. If I were to get involved, what would you recommend?

The lines I use the most are the GWML, the WCML and also the CrossCountry route between Birmingham and Reading, and figured it'd be a fun thing to try out to further understand the various nuances of the routes etc.

I have a fairly bog standard Lenovo laptop (T470s) running Windows 10, along with an iPad and a couple of iPhones, so anything that's compatible with any of those would be good. Not overly fussed on price either; would rather have a simulator that's as accurate to reality as possible.

Suggestions please!

Cheers,

Jim.

 

[TheEdge]

Train Simulator is probably your go to option. Although having said that it looks like your laptop is one with an onboard Intel HD graphics rather than a proper separate graphics card.

It may be able to run a game at low settings but it's going to perform badly and you'll probably be able to cook on the laptop with how hot it'll get.

OpenBVE (if it's still even an active project) is another possiblity that might be good but it's quite dated now.

 

[SeanG]

All of the routes that you specify above are available in Train Simulator (now known as Train Simulator Classic) albeit they are broken up into different "segments"

 

[GusB]

Open BVE was how I got started in the first place; it was available in the Ubuntu repositories when I switched to using Linux. Unfortunately it took lots of tweaking to get it to work in Windows, even though the actual installation process was fairly straightforward.

My current PC is a rather old (it'll be 10 in November) Dell Vostro. It manages to run Train Simulator, but there are some caveats: it takes ages to load the game and it takes ages to load certain routes.

 

[Statto]

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