Using OR Without Installing MSTS

[marvin31]

MSTS CDs are available, but the prices are outrageous! I purchased the two CDs from Amazon at $49.99 but the installation failed on my laptop running W7. I did use the steam tutorial you mentioned.
Marvin

[baldwin]

At what point did the installation fail?.

[shadowmane]

OK the default MSTS track shapes are not possible to use, although we probably can use Mtracks, Xtracks & Newroads. What about DBtracks? Rest of the things can be managed like sounds, etc.
What I am trying to say is this would free OR from MSTS. Shouldn't we try this?

Someone said there have been discussions of this before. However, I think it has merit. How many of the default shapes haven't been re-created somewhere? I don't know, but I'm sure there are old heads around here to could figure it out. It might even give a more polished look and feel to the whole simulation.

Of course, a lot of this has probably already been discussed over at Elvas Tower, where OR is being developed.

[marvin31]

The installation failed when I loaded the second disk. It continued to load until I had to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to clear it.