Trainz: A New Era News

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Our official "Service Pack 1" update has been released on Steam. Log in and update to the latest, and best ever version of Trainz.

We have added new functionality including Interlocking Towers to control sets of signals and junctions, new Surveyor tools such as bulk-asset update options in Surveyor and of course improved performance and stability across the board.

We've come a long long way since the first "Community Edition" release and the groundswell of community feedback indicates we have unleashed the full potential of the new era of Trainz.

We will continue working with our community to bring you updated content and new features to enhance the Trainz "hobby" even more.

For this “SP1” update, there are almost too many individual updates to list, so we’ve narrowed down the improvements to the following highlights:

Improved Performance and Stability across the board
Smoother graphics with new Vsync options
New Interlocking Towers feature
New Bulk Asset Replace feature in Surveyor
New Performance Presets on the MenuBar
Updates and optimisations for dozens of systems
Over 500 Bug and Crash fixes in total

We’ve busy working on toward the release of a huge new update that delivers smoother performance, improved stability and lots of additional fixes and enhancements. As part of our preparations for this release, we have made a "Release Candidate" version available for our customers to try out.

Existing customers can download the beta version today ( 7.4 GB )

This will be released as the public build in the next week or two depending on feedback.

To access the beta:
1. Right click on TANE in your Library
2. Click on the Betas tab
3. Type in TANESP1Beta1 then Check Code
4. Now select the tane_sp1_beta - Release Candidate Test from the drop down list
5. You may need to restart Steam
6. Begin downloading the Beta from the Steam servers.

Hotfix 2 patch is now live for both PC and Mac versions.
Will be posting the changelist shortly.

Regards