Which is the best train sim for...?

[ChooChooMcGrew]

Hi all,

I have read many posts on this and other forums, and although BVE comes across as the best sim, (and that is endorsed by its popularity on this forum), I wonder if it can compete with the might of Microsoft.

Can I get your opinion on what you think would be the best train sim for trainee drivers on the UK railways.

Things like sexily animated passengers and life-like cows in fields, for this task, are less important. Bigger priorities are going to be the British relevance of routes, traction, and signalling in the sim.

That considered, which sim is best?

 

[devon_metro]

The best sim for trainee drivers is the TOC verified simulator!

 

[ChooChooMcGrew]

Sure. But if you don't happen to have one of those in your bedroom, you would choose...?

 

[devon_metro]

BVE

 

[class 313]

MSTS 2 isn't even out yet.

But BVE for driving.

 

[JoshW1992]

Definately BVE. Pretty much everyone is how it should be.

 

[mbonwick]

BVE. No contest

 

[Coxster]

BVE Trainsim for physics and realism, but World of Subways for graphics.

That said, SWT's '450198' at Basingstoke was pretty impressive!

 

[Boxcars]

BVE without a shadow of a doubt

 

[EE Type 3]

The 377 at Selhurst is quite hellfire

But if you haven't got access to it for your own fun, then BVE all the way.

 

[DJC_158]

agreed with everyone BVE

 

[william]

The only one Ive ever tried.............................

 

[Boxcars]

The only one Ive ever tried.............................

............... it's the only one you need to

 

[ChooChooMcGrew]

Hey thanks for your replies!

 

[janderanderson]

BVE for me since I like the graphics and everything!

 

[I'm Insane]

BVE definitely, no other trainsim I've tried has even come close to the realism of BVE, i just wish it had support for nvidia graphics cards.

 

[adamp]

If BVE had moving objects like MSTS it would be " hellfire " :roll:

-Adam

 

[wishbone332]

BVE all the way!

 

[sjbve]

Nothing beats MSTS!!

Before I had MSTS, BVE was my favorite, but MSTS is much better.
In BVE you can only drive routes one-way, you can't turn switches, no passengerview, only a cabview.

 

[AlexS]

BVE is OK but you can't do things like prep the train etc. There's also nothing procedural involved like Rule 55, or proper disposal etc.

That said, it's not bad at all. Having had the odd go on the stick in a real train though it doesn't 'feel' that much like it - over a thousand horses behind your ear shoving you up the backside as you open the throttle feels like nothing else - and the same for when you put the brakes in. If you have a 'free' rather than notched brake controller braking by feel is so much easier in real life than BVE where you can only guess about whether you're throwing passengers around the saloon/breaking your couplers.

 

[slick]

BVE is OK but you can't do things like prep the train etc. There's also nothing procedural involved like Rule 55, or proper disposal etc.

That said, it's not bad at all. Having had the odd go on the stick in a real train though it doesn't 'feel' that much like it - over a thousand horses behind your ear shoving you up the backside as you open the throttle feels like nothing else - and the same for when you put the brakes in. If you have a 'free' rather than notched brake controller braking by feel is so much easier in real life than BVE where you can only guess about whether you're throwing passengers around the saloon/breaking your couplers.

True, hopefully BVE will develop into something where preping trains etc will be normal!

 

[VirginTrainFreak]

lol bve ftw ok the trains dont move but its like drveing a real train