Railworks America

Hello,

I've been a Railworks user for some time, but mainly on UK routes and some German.

However I recently purchased the NEC from RSC as it seemed unique in US routes in that it offered Passenger and Freight opportunities, was electrified, high speed and semi urban.

The scenary textures are quite different to most otheres in Railworks, but you soon get used to that.

It's a great route and runs smoothly, but there are a couple of major annoyances.

First, Freight locos seem to sometimes disconnect from their trains for no apparent reason.

Secondly, and this is a major problem to me, there are quite a few places where the cars and trucks drive in mid air and not on the highway. One of the worst is on the right embankment as you are leaving Trenton heading south towards the Delaware Bridge, but other instances are in Philadelphia as you are leaving 30th street. There are also floating cars alopngside some of the track crossing bridges.

I have thought about trying to fix these myself ( RSC are noted for not fixing quality control bugs) on a cloned copy of the route, but I find that the cars do not show up on most NEC Road lofts when I do a test installation of these.

Have I got a bad download ? ( I don't want to do an unecessary Verify Cache as RSC have bunched the Kuju RailSimUS files in an .ap file and it is now a lot of work to unpack and use them in RWTools).

Has anyone else noticed this floating car problem ?

I don't think it is my settings at fault, as scenary and most things are is set to highest ( except shadows)

I don't know about trains decoupling but the wayward cars and trucks started with TS2013. Soon after the change from TS2012 to TS2013 they did an update that screwed them up. I guess most of us just ignore it since it doesn't affect the game play.
NEC is a tricky route with all the stealth speed changes and such so there's not much time for sight seeing.

I just noticed. Check the first TOPIC above "NEC Bug threads". I'm sure it's listed there.

The decoupling isn't just limited to the NEC. I had that happen today on Sherman Hill. I was about halfway through the 80 minute Laramie-Cheyenne scenario right where the third track combines back with the other two tracks for a while and I suddenly noticed I was missing something. The separation was between my trailing locomotive and the one in front of it.

Thanks for the replies guys.

I don't think you have to be "sightseeing" to notice the floating cars as you leave Trenton towards the Delaware. THE CARS ARE RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD !

However RSC are very bad at rectifying faults with routes, although the NEC seems to be one of their worst for bugs.

The de-coupling of trains does occur in other routes, but I have not found it to be quite so bad as in the NEC.

Come on RSC , get a grip on quality control !

The NEC really needs a scenery upgrade from RSC...