more news from CES!

[kujuSabrina]

Richard Rogerson has given us a little update on activities at the CES in Las Vegas!

www.railsimulator.com

[keber]

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/754/754516p1.html

This link tells more: 5 routes (4 EU, 1 US), 10 trains (8 EU, 2 US).

[rgarber]

From the two links given it sure looks to me KRS will be or have the potential us MSTS'rs were hoping to see in a new title finally. One question I have, and I really don't know the answer to this is in the first piece (nicely done by Richard) it says KRS will be a Vista title. I haven't kept up with the info on Vista; does this mean KRS won't run on XP at all? Or will it mean it runs on XP but not as well; like what alot of flight simmers say about FSX? Or is the Vista thing a non-issue and not to be concerned with (except to run Vista itself).

Next question: In the second link the author mentions 3dstrudion max and I remember it's been said we can use 3d Canvas but my question can we still use Gmax to make models for KRS?

Rich Garber

[keber]

In UK forum Sabrina wrote:

>>> Rail Simulator is not Vista only - to date the builds have been
>>> developed on Microsoft's Win XP.

So there's no problem.

[rgarber]

Thanks Keber. :-)

[REMaster]

Looks like we aren't getting much for detail on switches so far:

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/114310.jpg

It appears to me the rails are just crossed for right now. I hope they add more detail to them.

[oakpalms]

You must have a lot better eyes than I do. I can't begin to determine how sophisticated the switches are from the enlarged photos let alone the little one here.

Maybe there is more than meets the eye?

Bob Edwards

[cougar]

Here is a detailed view of switches taken from UK's York-Newcastle line:

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=62409&start=0

It looks like they resolved the overlap issue with the switches.

[landnrailroader]

I guess the bothersome thing about all this is that evidently RS will run on -XP, but also it is evident that to be up to snuff, so to speak, KUJU will have to target it at Vista. Likely this will mean a compilation that runs so-so on -XP but requires vista for all the bells and whistles.

When you consider that to get the max. out of RS is going to require a physics card (best price so far on that one is around $300) and now may require Vista as well at least to get the most "bang", I have to believe that MSTS is looking better all the time.

I recently looked into the requirements for VISTA and they are huge. Just to run it is going to require around 2G of memory, plus it will fill a large disk, and we don't yet have a price, or upgrade price for it yet. I have two machines running XP-Pro, including one old beast that I use as a file server and it's requirements are modest by comparison to VISTA.

J. H. Sullivan
aka landnrailroader