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Engine or motor characteristics: how much horsepower, maximum tractive effort (i.e., its "pulling force"), oil pressures, fuel consumption, wheel radius.

If the loco has dynamic brakes: the minimum and maximum speeds at which they operate, how much force.

Brakes: what type (e.g., air), then various parameters such as the size of the air reservoir, the recharge rate, the power of the compressor motor, the maximum force exerted.

There could be as many as 20 or 30 separate lights defined in this section.

Lights: where they're placed on the loco, what type (e.g., headlight), what colour, whether flashing or not, brightness.

Wagon: a reference to a shape definition file, which in turn points to the bitmaps that make up the loco as we see it weight size information about the couplers (e.g., breaking force) friction information, number of wheels, adhesion.

The main sections in a loco's ENG file are: NSW 8120, in its Bincentennial livery, 8126, 8169 & 8172 start rolling with their coal load of 7,500 tons. The contents of the CVF and SMS files consist mainly of commands to tell MSTS where to find various bitmap files for the cabview and various WAVe files for different sounds. There are two SMS files, one for the sounds we hear inside the cab another for the locomotive sounds we hear when outside the cab (e.g., when we press the "2" key).

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The CVF file tells MSTS how to build a cabview for the locomotive. For example, the ENG file tells MSTS how much horsepower the locomotive has. These files are the main ones with information that define how a locomotive behaves. UP SD90MAC & TWX SD70MAC lead a mixed freight across the Coram bridge.

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Note: This is the version that must be present in your MSTS installation for the MSTS-Bin patches to install on your MSTS installation.How to start.

Editing Tools ( click here for detailed file list).

Orient-Express Gölsdorf 380 Refueling (missing coal texture and modified tender WAGon file).

Night Textures (texture missing from Routes\Japan2\Textures\Snow: US2FuelStation.ace).

Winter Textures (textures missing from Routes\Japan1\Textures\Night: JP1HadanoAlph.ace and JP1KaiseAlpha.ace).

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Coupler Functionality and Train.exe update ( click here for detailed file list).

Marias Pass Refueling (modified dash9 and GP38 ENGine file).

Video Card Issues (modified mprofiler.exe).

Version 1.4 (any version): just the v1.4 Train Update to eliminate the need for CD-in-drive and to get you ready for MSTS-Bin.Īddresses the following issues present in v1.0:.

Version 1.0 to version 1.4: you'll need the v1.4 Train Update, the SD40-2 Content, and the Class 50 Content.

That's why it may be bigger than the cut-down versions you'll see elsewhere on the Web. The Train Update file below contains the v1.4 update, updated TechDocs and updated Tools utilities.

Listed below are the downloads you need to bring your MSTS up to date, not need a CD in the drive and be ready to install MSTS-Bin. It is available from and costs about AU$32 delivered to Au8stralia.Ĭlick here to go to the website. Ubisoft in Europe still distributes MSTS as v1.4 in a jewel case package. Xplosiv (a UK-based company) then took over distribution of MSTS - and that version is the v1.4 update version. Despite the new distributors, the game remained unchanged at ver 1.4.Īs time went on, Atari changed the packaging ( NOT the content) from a DVD case to a two-CD jewel case (you'll see these advertised on amazon and elsewhere as "jc"). Microsoft handed over distribution of MSTS to third parties in about 2005 and the game was released under Atari (US) and Ubisoft (Europe/Asia/Oceania) labels. Sometime after the release of v1.4, the box was replaced by a 2-CD Amaray-style DVD case with either the BNSF Dash 9 or the Flying Scotsman on the cover, depending on the market into which it was sold. Microsoft originally released MSTS in a boxed version.

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When you look at the program file's "Properties", the upgrade clearly states "Patch v1.4": Even Microsoft call it v1.2 on their own website! Depending on the market and the distributor, the package said that the version was called v1.2, v1.3 or v1.4. Fairly obviously, users of v1.0 who upgraded to v1.4 using the web update couldn't "have a CD in the drive". However, when v1.4 was released on disk, the program was modified to ensure that a CD was always present in the drive. When you installed version 1.0, you didn't need to have a CD in the drive to make the game work.

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There were some "issues", and Microsoft released a patch in April 2002 that (was supposed to) address a variety of issues. Microsoft Train Simulator was released in mid-2001.