Get the Horseshoe Curve

[SoloTwo]

Ugh seems like its impossible for me to finish a scenario without a derailment. Finally started doing the tutorial mission and as soon as I was about to finish going through the horseshoe both my train and the AI train going the other way derailed. Was going about 20mph at the time. Very frustrating since the tutorials don't have any sort of save feature.

[Chessie8638]

This happened to the NEC also.. People were getting derailments going around curves and whatnot. I never got any of that. Seems like its true with HSC, I have yet to get a derailment or collision.

[glenn68]

I picked up the route this afternoon and love it. I have to say that RSC did a great job.
I wonder since this area will lead to further development of the route going east and west. I would love to see the route go into Pittsburgh.
I only ran one free roam scenario from Johnstown to Altoona and derailed once and because a power switch was set in the wrong direction.
I have to say RSC,

Glenn

[Toripony]

I've been getting some time to look around; have only driven about an hour here and there. It's a great route. Just the right size for an hour drive, plenty of yard space to play in, plenty of tracks for many AI trains interactions. I know the area, it's pretty spot on without being too overloaded with scenery; performs well. Set in that time period there are plenty of openings for prototypical expansion through additional mainline or restoring old branches and sidings. With new asset blocks, time to routebuild is cut dramatically! Saw a water station today; I expect we'll see a new steam engine for it someday.

[hminky]

Tried the HorseShoe on my old XP computer:

Alathon 64x2 Dual 3.01 Ghz
2 Gb Ram
Radeon HD 5670

On the low settings I was getting in the 19-25 FPS and it was running smooth

Impressed
Harold

[Chacal]

I just spent 3 hours on this route. These was the most enjoyable time I've spent in RW.
It truly shows the best in RW3.

The scenario set in a snow storm was awesome, with wheel slippage, stuck trains everywhere.
The rain effect in the windshield is fantastic, the wiper on the conductor side wasn't working, I wonder if this was on purpose (i.e. to fully show the rain effect).
Dynamic braking was working much better than in RW2, with hilarious blow dryer sound.

Finally, sound and smoke! I'm sure my neighbors were wondering what was going on.

Got some performance hit, but with 2 graphic cards in SLI it was still very enjoyable.

[clivejames1st]

Hi.

I bought the Horseshoe Curve last night and I was initially very dissapointed in the framerates I was getting for it, around 11/12. Today, I followed the suggestions by RSC for setting the Graphics Options in 2012. I have a Nvidia GTX 260 and used the Nvidia GTX 460 settings and now my framerates are 26/28 dropping to 19/20 in heavy areas. The scenery and layout of Horseshoe Curve , I think, is stunning. To drive in the rain and snow with wipers on is very realistic indeed as is the motion of the locos. The superelevation is also very realistic. I wasn't too happy with the career idea of the locked scenarios but now think they are very good and will buy them again. The pictures that pop up with instructions are far better than that dreadful window that virtually obstructed all view.

My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz overclocked, Windows 7 64-bit, 4Gb memory.

[Gunloon]

I've been away from RW for a while, flying RC planes in the good weather. Of course I had to try it after the update. Some of my old routes run, some crash...not the end of the world. They saw me coming with this route, I had to get it first thing today. Stunning. It does get a bit choppy in busy spots on my old dual core machine, but I'll live until I can afford to upgrade. The new locos are terrific, look, feel, sounds, everything. I can't WAIT to see what the community will come up with to flesh this route out! RW3/TS2012 got me back playing with my trains early this year

[glenn68]

I wonder if anyone maybe looking at reskinning some RSC GP9's in Pennsyvania Railroad or Penn Central?

[philmoberg]

I wonder if anyone maybe looking at reskinning some RSC GP9's in Pennsyvania Railroad or Penn Central?

Already done. You'll find them in the f/l bundled with some Conrail repaints. Look in June of this year.

[glenn68]

I will have to go back and check it out.

[styckx]

For those who may not want to sit through over two hours of game play to play the One Hundred scenario, or would just like to play one of the other scenarios without having to play an unlocking `game' for standard scenarios. Just open any standard scenario in the editor, when the editor loads, click play and you can play it without having to `unlock' it first. Soon as you complete it, it's perm unlocked. :)

[Shortliner]

For those who may not want to sit through over two hours of game play to play the One Hundred scenario, or would just like to play one of the other scenarios without having to play an unlocking `game' for standard scenarios. Just open any standard scenario in the editor, when the editor loads, click play and you can play it without having to `unlock' it first. Soon as you complete it, it's perm unlocked. :)

Very nice walk around. :)

[Jimbo]

For those who may not want to sit through over two hours of game play to play the One Hundred scenario, or would just like to play one of the other scenarios without having to play an unlocking `game' for standard scenarios. Just open any standard scenario in the editor, when the editor loads, click play and you can play it without having to `unlock' it first. Soon as you complete it, it's perm unlocked. :)

I must be missing something. When I go to the editor for scenarios edit is greyed out.

[mkakta]

Hi.

I bought the Horseshoe Curve last night and I was initially very dissapointed in the framerates I was getting for it, around 11/12. Today, I followed the suggestions by RSC for setting the Graphics Options in 2012. I have a Nvidia GTX 260 and used the Nvidia GTX 460 settings and now my framerates are 26/28 dropping to 19/20 in heavy areas. The scenery and layout of Horseshoe Curve , I think, is stunning. To drive in the rain and snow with wipers on is very realistic indeed as is the motion of the locos. The superelevation is also very realistic. I wasn't too happy with the career idea of the locked scenarios but now think they are very good and will buy them again. The pictures that pop up with instructions are far better than that dreadful window that virtually obstructed all view.

My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz overclocked, Windows 7 64-bit, 4Gb memory.

It seems I've got the same system. What specs are you using the get those framerates? Thanks.