BVE: Slightly Off Topic - Sorry

[pauljscott2003]

Hi Guyz,

Sorry for this but I thought this would be the best place than any to ask. I have been using BVE on and off (work permitting) for more than 6 months now and am extremely happy with it. I have started 2 routes but am no where near ready to publicly distribute either of them as they need serious detailing.
I am in 2 minds as to whether to also invest in MSTS and wondered if the MSTS community who also use BVE could tell me if it is worth the money. I use a P3 500Mhz 128Mb machine and doubt if I will upgrade in the near future, is my machine powerful enough for MSTS? I will of course continue to use BVE as Mackoy has created an excellent piece of software to which he must be applauded.

Again, sorry for the OT.

Thanks for your time.

Paul

[IRT_BMT_IND]

RE: Slightly Off Topic - Sorry

It will work great. I istalled MSTS on my PII 320MHZ with a 5 GB HD and it filled up so much space that the machine couldnt boot up.

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/2242603.jpg

That squirrel may look cute, but he is our only protection against routes ripped off from other authors. He will destroy all of these routes authors. HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Tim Frost]

RE: Slightly Off Topic - Sorry

Actually, I have to disagree. It seems to depend from system to system how MSTS will run. It ran very poorly on my Celeron 600mhz/196MB/12gb system with no dedicated graphics memory and it only runs decent on my current AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (unlocked to overclock) with 256MB ram, 40gb hdd, and a 32mb gfx card.

BVE runs great on this system, I get a constant 25-30fps on *most* sections of all routes.

BVE is a better sim anyways in my opinion. The graphics of MSTS may be exceptional but the physics are awful.

Theres my twopence in.

Tim Frost
NVTA Subway routes for BVE:

http://nvta.co.uk

http://nvta.free-hosting.org.uk/images/tsimnvtaavatar.jpg

[OliverMat]

RE: Slightly Off Topic - Sorry

Stick to BVE its free, the downloads are small and the cabs and sounds are much better. MSTS 2 is in production so wait for that.

[womer_uk]

RE: Slightly Off Topic - Sorry

I agree with Tim, I have both sims and find for actual driving BVE wins hands down, with the big advantage that all routes and trains are free.

MSTS does look better,with the out of cab views (which of course BVE doesnt have)but the driving part is bloody garbage,it will also gobble up a big part of your HDD and is IMHO a waste of money, wait for MSTS2 it looks nice but will probably be even bigger bloatware