Scroll to and tic the box next to Legacy Components & Direct Play Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On or Off If you have not already, also enable Direct Play. Unfortunately you may need to trawl some train sim sites to find oneĪs my source of noCD fixes has only a German language version which may not work with English version. To run the game you will need a noCD fix/hack. Once installed this folder can be deleted.
In thisĬase if you copy the files from the disc's to a folder on your desktop you will often be able to install the game from there. DRM Blocking generally only affects installed games, but also can prevent games from installing occasionally. I have more details on DRM Blocking in my post at
MS started blocking the driver used by this form of DRM when theyy released Win10, but MS couldn't be bothered includingĪn honest error message with Win10, so this 'run as admin' pops up. This, and most older MS (and many other developer/publishers) games uses SafeDisk copy protection (v20.70.030 with this game - on CD 2 only, which is probably the one used when launching the game).
If you are using a disc based version of MS Train Simulator and have been getting errors saying to
However, rolling stock is not geo-locked, and it means with third party equipment, it is possible to use some suspension of disbelief to, for example, create activities for Marias Pass set during the Great Northern or Burlington Northern periods, or the Northeast Corridor pre-Amtrak.
In MSTS, only the Two Medicine trestle at East Glacier is depicted accurately. The Marias Pass route in real life features several impressive iron trestles on it, at Cut Bank, either end of the East Glacier siding, Java, and Sheep Creek (between Java West and Essex).The Northeast Corridor route is missing a fair number of details along it, many of which were added back in by third party developers.
Artistic License Geography: Many of the routes feature some artistic compromises.Rail Simulator was also developed by Kuju, but starting with its successor Railworks it's developed by a new company that later evolved into the simulator-focused Dovetail Games, which also re-released Microsoft Flight Simulator X on Steam. The game has a commercial Spiritual Successor of some sort, sporting the different names Rail Simulator / Rail Works / Train Simulator 20XX. There was a Microsoft Train Simulator 2 which got canceled twice, in 2004 and in 2009.