Gazz292

i know that if you've put the brake lever into the emergency position, you need to use the brake release button to get the brakes to come off (once the brake lever is out of the emergency position) The brake release is the green button on the bottom row of the desk, next to the double toggle switch for headlight dimming. ''''Do'h, just seen your other thread, and it's not that... but i did spot that your main pressure gauge was pegged at max pressure, it should never go above about 1 and a little bit Mpa, as the safety valves would be set about there.

one idea i have is to maybe allow us to assign a keyboard button to the brake lever, power lever, shunt lever etc, Which we hold down and scroll with the mouse wheel to move the lever, So, if say Z was set for the brake lever, and X was set for the power wheel, the mouse can be anywhere on the screen, but pressing and holding keyboard key X, when you move the scroll wheel on the mouse, the power lever/wheel moves, release X, then press Z, and the brake lever moves with the scroll wheel.

if you hover the mouse over a control, press and hold the left button down, and instead of moving the mouse to drag the lever / switch... you scroll the wheel, and it moves the control you are hovering over. I find this a great way to control the main power / brake lever in the ELF, and the power wheel and shunt lever in the EU07... but the train brake valve is too slow to move with the scroll wheel i find. I also use the click and scroll method to move the rotary switches, like the door switch in the ELF, the wiper switches, the radio channel knob in the EU07. : Talking about wipers... going OT a little... i keep thinking i've got specs of dust on my laptop screen, and try to wipe them off... they are dead flies on the trains windscreen, and just using the wipers doesn't clean them, you have to use the washers too... but if you don't run the wash water long enough, it doesn't clean all of the screen!! 😮🤯

Wondering if we can get the radio channel change signs shown on the HUD like the speed changes are shown in advance?

Another thing i'm loving in SimRail Vs tsw... how it performs. I'm using a gaming laptop that was new in March this year (i7-12700H, RTX3070 Ti, 16 gigs of DDR 5 ram etc) and when running tsw it always hogged one core on the CPU at 100%, and made it run at about 98 degrees C, The graphics card was thus running at a similar temp, yet power to it was about 90 watts, and i had to run the screen at 60Hz or it was overheating. SimRail... i have every slider on max, every option on ultra or as high as it'll go, It's spreading it's load out over multiple CPU cores and the CPU's max temp i have seen so far is 70 degrees C. The graphics card is pulling ~120 watts, and sits at 74 degrees C, AND i've put the screen to 165Hz {2560 x 1600 native resolution) i am seeing ~50 FPS when driving. : It was back in 2012 when i started with Omsi... i was one of the first people to connect a real dashboard from a NG272 bus to the computer to drive with (i'm crap at coding, so someone helped write the 'Gazz.opl' which allowed the dashboards lights and gauges to operate with the sim (superseded by Komsi that i helped with a little) i even drove to Germany in december 2012 to collect the driving desk from a German BR 112 train after i'd discovered Railworks, that was going to be my next project for the train driving side. I'm the same Gazz292 on youtube... but unfortunately i screwed my life up after 2014, and it's just the last 2 years i've been able to get back to playing with simulators.

I've just started the service in my last photo post, showing "Scenario Duration ~01:20" and when i got to the next station (4 km away) i was 11 minutes early, with a 10 minute wait at the station, my departure time is 19:52 (14 minutes away as i type this)

I'm not sure, i've been given trains that are running 10 or 15 minutes early, and ones running 10 minutes late.

Here's another that makes it even more confusing to me, Again on the 'English Beginners Server' Here the time is 19:20, yet this train is showing a departure time of 19:53, and a scenario duration of ~01:20 (i just noticed it's not a minus symbol but a 'Tilde' symbol "~" (meaning approximately) before the duration time)

i hope i am wrong, but i read a while back that SimRail and SimBus were 2 projects started together, and SimRail was the more popular one so got developed. Omsi was what got me into the driving simulators, and so far all other bus driving games are too locked down and arcade like to be considered an actual 'simulator' but for me it's the ability to control the simulator with home made controllers... either real bus / train parts or 3D printed ones, hence part of the reason i've given up on the tsw franchise.

When i select a train to drive, i'm trying to chose one that will give me a nice long run, so i'm wondering how to interpret the train selection screen. So below, the time is 18:42, the train selected started at it's origin point / station at 17:49, and it's showing 'Scenario Duration : -00:04' Is this telling me i'd get 4 minutes worth of driving from choosing this train? (unfortunately for this service it was stuck at a red signal just outside a station and never moved again) But sometimes i see 'Scenario Duration : -02:35' but mostly a duration of 00:37 or so.

I've just chosen the EN96, i was on the English Beginners server at about 18:35... unfortunately all i got to do was sit at a red light with about 7 other drivers on other tracks, apparently the previous dispatcher routed a few trains onto wrong tracks deliberately then left... that's what i picked up from the radio chatter.

Ahh, i was wondering this too, The GUI will show amber when it's a double amber signal for a speed limit (i think that's how it works) but will show 'green signal, VMax, 250 m' when the actual signal is a single amber, and thus the next one is 'Red signal '0KPH' 850 m' I guess we need to be looking out the window at the actual signals more than reading the GUI 🙂

if you click on the coupler when it's highlighted in yellow, a menu pops up, at the moment it's only god 'cancel' as the option, but i can see that we will be able to couple and uncouple... maybe even do each item individually... connect the air hoses, electrical jumpers and wind in the screw coupler.

I gave up on tsw months ago, when they banned me from the forums for pointing out that tsw3 for PC users has no new features we hadn't had for free in tsw2 with a few mods... that and how they lied and claimed they were 'taking a break to work on the core issues' when really they were working on tsw3 as a way to make everyone pay £50 for pretty much the same thing they are already playing. I feel really bad as someone was writing a program that will allow any joystick to work with that game, making it think a raildriver is connected from my suggestions..... The reason for this kind of hackery : dtg refuse to give us joystick support, they think everyone is happy jabbing at keyboard keys to operate linear train levers, tho i think the truth is more like they'd prefer everyone to play their game on a console. i even dumped my 3/4 completed 'EuroRailDriver' 3D printed driving controller i was building, As i just can't bring myself to load up tsw again yet, Now i have even less reason to, SimRail is so addictive and really showing up how much of an arcade game tsw is. My only thing i would complain about SimRail so far is the shadows on the tracks that are drawn about 100 meters in front of the train as you go along, that's something tsw suffered with all the time tho.

A train or a bus driver should be told as part of his training : You have every excuse to be late, you have no excuse to be early. Being late... well that's life, delays happen all the time, passengers moan and complain of course, but they wont be complaining that they missed their train / bus due to it having left before the timetabled time.

I was stopped in Katowice station, and it began to rain, as the trains windscreen was wet. This is a covered station (but maybe the windows in the roof are holes?) But when i used the windscreen wipers to clear the screen, they are not clearing the rain streaks and drops, in the screenshot the wiper is moving, hence blurry and hard to see.

i've had this too, showing up when i am ~10+Km from the next station.

i get the occasional pause for a second or 2, it must be when something big is being loaded in? and sometimes i seem to get on a server where swapping cameras results in some lag, but if i switch to a different server i can get no delay at all. so i'm not sure if it's the data going between the servers causing the lags (is this possible?) It's nowhere as bad as tsw's pauses, glitches and lags. I run everything set on high or ultra, Lenovo Legion 5i pro gaming laptop. i7-12700H 16GB DDR5 - 4800 (upgrading to 32 or 64 gigs soon) RTX 3070 Ti 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 Running at 2560 x 1600 Resolution, @ 60Hz (screen can do 165 Hz, but i see no need for that on a driving sim)

yup, my finger are crossed. At the moment i'm preferring operating the controls with the mouse scroll wheel, just had a drive in the ELF... and using the scroll wheel to move the power/ brake lever seems almost natural, it's just holding down the left mouse button over the control in the cab that's a pain. part of me wants to swap left and right mouse buttons, as holding the right one and operating the scroll wheel with my index finger would be more comfortable, I see that in the controls setup screen, the mouse buttons can't be changed. But i am probably the only one who finds using the mouse scroll wheel cool.

all along SimRail has been listed as getting joystick support, i really hope this comes true, and we dont get the half assed raildriver 'support' dtg did with tsw2, not everyone wants to buy a £250 propriety controller thats is sized for kid sized hands, so i have my fingers crossed that we will get full joystick support, so we can use things like aircraft sim throttle quadrants, or build our own controllers.

Last night i did a run in the late evening, and it was like a psychedelic trip, Sleepers glowing green, cars with while orbs for wheels, cars on the road with red headlights, I still enjoyed the drive tho.

When i get out the EU07 by exiting the drivers door in a station (on the platform side) i climb out the door and down the steps, and end up half inside the platform, my feet are on the trackbed level i presume, so my body is half sticking out of the platform surface. I can do a jump 'SPACE' and i am back with my feet on the platform surface, but until i jump i can walk around the platform with just the top half of my body sticking out. I just did this at Zawiercie station as my train was already in the station when i loaded in, but i have done this at other stations before. Log_2022-12-12_22-33-26_part1.txt

Anyone know what the ZEW1, ZEW2 and ZEW3 buttons on the radio are for? pressing zew1 gets a low tone, zew2 nothing, and zew3 a high tone.

When first loading into SimRail multiplayer, you get a list of servers to choose from, but you can't scroll down the list with the mouse scroll wheel, only drag the slider at the edge. Similarly, when driving and pressing TAB to bring up the list of other users on the server, using the mouse scroll wheel zooms the view in the cab in and out. would it be possible to make the scroll wheel move the list up and down when that menu is open? then go back to zooming in and out in the cab when the menu is closed? ------------- I never thought i'd be bothering with a multiplayer train sim, always been a single player guy for all games, But the past couple of days has changed my mind... there's something awesome about aproaching another human driving a train in this sim, just a simple horn exchange to let eachother know we recognise eachother (like real drivers wave to eachother) Today i heard my first radio chatter, ok i was on a German server... the english ones seem silent so far (or i dont know the radio chanel) and it was kinda cool to hear the dispatchers giving instructions to others (my middle school learnt German from when i lived over there is too bad to understand most of it tho)

When SimRail releases to the public, will there be more keybinds? Can you make a toggle switch move in the other direction with a modifier key? i.e. hold down SHIFT or CTRL or ALT and press the key... so say for pantograph switches in the EU07, pressing 'F' raises the front one, pressing 'SHIFT + F' lowers the front one. : one of the really annoying things with tsw is the limited switches in the cab that you can operate with the keyboard, would be really nice to do things like Omsi did, where if any switch control that actually does something (and can be already operated with the mouse) you can bind a key or joystick button to it. I'm one of those people who likes to build controlers for trains, and i am already planning one for the EU07, My goal would be to be able to totally ignore the computer keyboard once i'm loaded into the tains cab in the sim, and drive using levers and switches/buttons on my controller. i'm sure others would like to do similar with joysticks like throttle quadrants, and button boxes etc.