New to Railworks and have a few questions

[Haystack]

Hi all, I recently purchased Railworks 2 on steam a few days ago and love it. I have already played a good 15 hours or so. I have a few questions,

First off I'm having trouble with xfire. I don't know if anyone on here uses it but for some reason I cant seem to get xfire to work in game. It detects it as Railworks but when I go in game it dosn't say I'm in game and I can't use it in game. Has anyone had this problem? I have a buddy who has Railworks 2 and xfire works just fine for him so its supported.

Second I want to know what some must have add-ons are. I'm into modern day freight trains. My favorite company is Union Pacific. I would like to find some map mods for the west coast (Ca, Or, Wa, Nv, Az, Id, Ut, Nm, Co, Wy, Mo). Also anything else you think would be good to get.

Thanks in advance.

[LoneWolfDon]

Didn't know what the "Xfire" was until I did a quick search for it. It's like a Friends List / Instant Messenger type program right?

RailWorks uses the Steam-client, and the Steam-client has it's own built in community overlay when running games. So, it could be conflicting in that regards.
First you might try un-checking the "Enable Steam Community in game" option for the RailWorks properties from within the Steam-client.

If that doesn't work, then I might suggest a work-around of sorts that may still allow you to run your Xfire program by playing RailWorks in windowed mode (from the launcher, Settings, un-check "Fullscreen" option, be sure to select a resolution suitable for a window, "Test" settings, if good, then save and play).

For an official list of RailWorks DLC from the Steam-Store, check out this link:
http://store.steampowered.com/dlc/24010/
Take a look over that list and see what grabs your attention.
If you act quick (a little over 5 hours remaining as I write this message), there's still a few hours of the Summer Sale in which you can get 50% off on RailWorks and DLC.

Rich's Garber's routes have a North American style to them which you might like.
He's made routes like; Rascal & Cottonwood, Colton & Northern, Fort Kent to Eagle Lake and Ohio Steel - Dover Division.
You can buy from the Steam-store, or you can check out his site over at: http://www.allaboardrails.com/

If you look around, you can also find some free goodies for RailWorks too.
I might suggest to look within RWA's own File Library here:
http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary/

Welcome aboard to the wonderful world of RailWorks.
See you on the trains. ---Don.

[arizonachris]

Welcome, Fear. Take a look here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2642 Was just asked a few days ago. Lots of good info there as well as Don's info. Better hurry, sale is over in just an hour or so.

[WhiteKnight77]

Does Xfire recognize your install of Railworks? If not, you will have to manually add the game through the Options under the Game tab. Once added, it should recognize and allow for use of XFire's screen and video capabilities as well as chat if you use it.

[thecanadianrail]

Even though it was asked earlyer i will put down the things that you mentioned that you should be interested in.

1. SD70ACe addon from steam
2. SW1500 addon from steam
3. GP9 addon from steam
4. Willamette Pass
5. Tennessee Pass
6. Soldger Summit route
7. Modern Boxcars from Golden Age
8. SD70ACe UP Heratage repaint avalable here

there is also alot of stuff avalable here that should interest you aswell.

[Hawk]

Let's move this discussion over to the link in Chris' thread above instead of having two threads going on about it.