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@Drumsart Confirmed ! Thanks for the report, this will be fixed in the next update.

La mise à jour 0.8.18.0 est disponible !

J'ai dû changer le matériel de mon ordinateur et refaire toute la configuration de mes logiciels à partir de zéro et cela n'a pas été sans problèmes. Maintenant tout est résolu et je suis de retour au travail. Désolé pour ce long délai.

Cette mise à jour est une mise à jour de maintenance pour s'assurer que la plupart des librairies tierces utilisées sont à jour avec les dernières mises à jour de stabilité et de correction de bugs.
J'ai maintenant quelques projets pour améliorer le processus de cooking et le rendre un peu plus rapide dans les prochaines mises à jour. Pour l'instant, les capacités de multithreading du processus de cooking du contenu sont limitées à 16 threads. Les processeurs récents ont généralement plus de cœurs de processeur disponibles, je veux donc améliorer le système de cooking du contenu pour utiliser tous les cœurs de processeur disponibles sur le système.
Ce type d'amélioration des performances/stabilité est important avant de passer à l'implémentation de nouvelles fonctionnalités.

A bientôt pour une nouvelle mise à jour  

CHANGELOG:

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- Vulkan renderer improvements and fixes
- Network communication system improvements and fixes
- Updated SSL protocol from 1.1.x version to 3.x version
- Input handling improvements and fixes
- Display/Window hardware compatibility fixes
- UI internal optimizations and fixes
- Images loading/resizing optimizations
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

Update 0.8.18.0 is now available ! (finally) 

I had to change my computer hardware and redo all my softwares setup/configuration from scratch and that's not been without issues. Now everything is solved and i'm back at work. Sorry for this long delay.

This update is a maintenance update to ensure that most important third party libs used are up to date with latest stability and bug fixes updates.

Now I have some plans to improve the cooking process and make it a bit faster in future updates. Right now the multithreading capabilities of the content cooking process is limited to 16 threads. Recent CPU's usually have more CPU cores available so I want to upgrade the content cooking system to make usage of all CPU core available on the system.

This kind of performance improvements/stability work is important before moving to new features implementation.

See you soon for another update  

CHANGELOG: 

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- Vulkan renderer improvements and fixes
- Network communication system improvements and fixes
- Updated SSL protocol from 1.1.x version to 3.x version
- Input handling improvements and fixes
- Display/Window hardware compatibility fixes
- UI internal optimizations and fixes
- Images loading/resizing optimizations
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

Bonjour @nasvrick, 

RWE 2 utilise un algorithme spécial pour determiner la position du train par rapport aux coordonnées de longitude et latitude actuelle du train et de la position des gares/arrets sur les lignes, le système de PIS peut donc fonctionner en mode scenario ou quickdrive sur les lignes existantes sans modifications des fichiers du jeu. 

Il existe encore des cas ou des lignes qui ne sont pas encore bien supportées mais cela devrais fonctionner dans au minimum trois quart des cas. Y compris dans les scenarios ou il y a des manœuvres à effectuer. 

Hello @Loufreisfreeway, 

The PC hardware change has been done pretty fast but on the software side, I had to do a lot of tasks. The code base of RWE 2 is now functional again and a new maintenance update should be released this week end. 

After that, I will resume my work normally on new features and improvements  

Hello @NeilNorwich, 

Yes the signals can be removed from the track monitor ! 

You just need to go in HUD settings in RWE 2 menu and disable the "Show Signals" setting.

Hello, @Dirtalot, 

I have received the streamdeck a few weeks ago but had no time to test it yet as I have changed my work computer and had to migrate and reinstall everything. It is almost ready now and I will take a look at this very soon.

Can you send me a private message about this, I may have some questions to ask to see where the problem could be coming from. Thank you. 

Hello, 

Yes RWE 2 need to cook the data at every launch. To be more precise, when you launch it for the first time, RWE 2 will scan all your Train Simulator data and store it in some "database" files, this process can be quite long depending on your installed content. After this initial "full data cooking" is done RWE 2 will need to load this data from the database files for each launch of RWE 2, this is called the "quick cooking" it is faster but can take some minutes if your content is huge. 

There is no way to avoid this process unfortunately but i'm working on some solution to make this process the shortest possible  

If you just start the game from steam without launching RWE 2, you will keep the enhanced visual effects but all gameplay features of RWE 2 (sounds, HUD...) will not work.

Hello @pez4me2, 

I'll try to help ! 

1- With RWE 2 you need to launch any external software that work with Train Simulator in "Administrator Mode" (right click on your software shortcut and select launch in admin mode). This way raildriver should work fine with RWE 2.

2- Can you show a screenshot of what you are talking about ? I'm not sure what you are talking about here.

3- Yes in order to get the RWE 2 functionnalities to work (HUD, enhanced sounds...) you need to launch scenarios/quick drives with RWE 2.

4- Once enhanced shaders are installed by RWE 2, they work even if you are playing the regular train simulator with RWE 2 enabled. You can disable shaders improvements in the settings menu of RWE 2 but due to the nature of Train Simulator engine, you can't disable RWE 2 new effects when Train Simulator is running, you need to do it when the game is not running.

As a side note, I have changed my dev computer a few week ago and i'm now restoring everything on the new computer. RWE 2 updates will be resumed shortly  

I will investigate this soon. Lately I have been changing computer and I need to setup everything correctly. That's why there was no updates lately. Work will resume soon  

Hello, could you provide more infos about your computer ? What is your graphic card ? Maybe the latest vulkan version is not properly supported on your GPU ? 

Thank you  

@Drumsart, Il ne d'agit pas d'un bug de RWE2, tout dépends dont la façon dont les scenarios quickdrive sont conçu par leurs créateurs. Certains créateurs pour un trajet d'un point A à un point B font cheminer le trajet en ajoutant précisément les points de passage intermédiaires par lequel le train passe (les gares par exemple) dans ce cas RWE 2 pourra précisément détecter ces points intermédiaire et les ajouter dans la liste d'arrêts intermédiaires. En revanche si ces points ne sont pas renseignés correctement dans le scenario quickdrive alors RWE 2 ne pourra en aucun cas les detecter magiquement  

@vassalfada Je n'ai pas encore rencontré ce cas pour le moment, normalement si un quickdrive est disponible sous Train Simulator de base, alors ce mode quickdrive sera proposé dans RWE 2 (avec ou sans les arrêts intermédiaire selon le critère explique ci-dessus). Auriez vous un exemple de ce problème avec une ligne spécifique ? 

Hello @majortom67, 

You need to lower the "Color Vibrance" shader setting in order to desaturate the image color a bit  

La mise à jour 0.8.17.0 est maintenant disponible  

Il s'agit d'une mise à jour de maintenance qui corrige quelques problèmes internes et ajoute quelques optimisations. Cette mise à jour améliore également le moteur audio afin de préparer les futures améliorations des systèmes PIS. 

La mise à jour d'amélioration du PIS allemand est un peu retardée car j'ai besoin de travailler sur plus de systèmes internes pour le faire fonctionner correctement. Merci de votre patience !

CHANGELOG: 

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- Audio engine core improvements, optimizations and fixes
- Audio engine hardware compatibility improvements and fixes
- Fixed audio engine wrong logged version issue
- Fixed audio engine rare crashes
- UI system improvements, optimizations and fixes
- Network communication system improvements and fixes
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

Update 0.8.17.0 is now available

This is a maintenance update that fixes some internal issues and add some optimizations. This update also improves the audio engine in order to prepare the future PIS systems improvements. 

The German PIS refactoring update is a bit delayed as i need to work on more internal systems to make it working properly. Thank you for your patience ! 

CHANGELOG: 

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- Audio engine core improvements, optimizations and fixes
- Audio engine hardware compatibility improvements and fixes
- Fixed audio engine wrong logged version issue
- Fixed audio engine rare crashes
- UI system improvements, optimizations and fixes
- Network communication system improvements and fixes
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

La mise à jour 0.8.16.0 est maintenant disponible. 

Cette mise à jour ajoute plus de corrections et d'améliorations de stabilisation et implémente quelques nouveaux systèmes afin de préparer entre autres la mise à jour d'amélioration du PIS allemand qui devrait être prête en décembre.

A bientôt pour une nouvelle mise à jour  

CHANGELOG: 

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- Vulkan renderer improvements and fixes (If TS does not start when vulkan renderer is enabled, please update your GPU drivers to the latest version)
- Improved French voice style (more neutral) for station and onboard PIS systems (Azure speech engine only)
- Azure speech engine improvements and fixes
- SAPI speech engine optimizations and cache size improvements
- PIS systems core improvements in order to prepare the upcoming German PIS refactoring
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

Update 0.8.16.0 is now available. 

This update is adding more fixes and stabilization improvements and implements some new systems in order to prepare the German PIS refactoring update which should be ready in December.

See you soon for another update  

CHANGELOG: 

Citer

- Vulkan renderer improvements and fixes (If TS does not start when vulkan renderer is enabled, please update your GPU drivers to the latest version)
- Improved French voice style (more neutral) for station and onboard PIS systems (Azure speech engine only)
- Azure speech engine improvements and fixes
- SAPI speech engine optimizations and cache size improvements
- PIS systems core improvements in order to prepare the upcoming German PIS refactoring
- Core systems improvements, optimizations and fixes

Hello @daniel.trenzen, 

Your suggestion has been implemented in the next update which will be released soon. 

Hello Alti, 

Sorry for the late answer, I missed your post.

Yes RW Enhancer 2 can be used on the public beta branch of Train Simulator.

Il y a 10 heures , daniel.trenzen a dit:

Thanks for the feedback. — Sure, that would be a step in the right direction
At this point, is there not the possibility to access the data already stored in RW 2?
If a scenario has been manually marked as done as possible since update 0.8.5.0 - RW 2 actually already knows the status and in my humble opinion, this should then also be able to be displayed in the Content Explorer?

The existing completion data can be of course accessed so scenarios that have been manually marked as done can be displayed as done.

Will add this feature soon.

Hello @daniel.trenzen, 

This can be done but keep in mind that I can only display the completion status for scenarios done with RWE 2. A scenario done in TS without RWE 2 will still be displayed as "not done". 

Is it ok for you ?  

En effet les divers logiciels anti-virus sont devenus de plus en plus suspicieux et génèrent de plus en plus de cas de "faux positifs" dernièrement. RW Enhancer 2 est régulièrement confronté à ce genre de souçis lors de la sortie des mises à jour. Train Simulator étant mis à jour assez régulièrement en ce moment, les executables sont souvent mis à jours et cela implique parfois que les logiciels anti-virus génèrent des alertes éronées sur ces fichiers.  

Deux recommendations pour cela: 

- Ne pas installer plusieurs anti-virus. Windows defender qui est directement intégré à windows fait très bien l'affaire comparés à la majorité des anti-virus gratuis dans le cadre d'une utilisation "saine" et un minimum prudente du PC.

- Ne pas hésiter à ajouter tout le répertoire d'installation de Train Simulator dans la liste d'exlusion de l'anti-virus. Ainsi ce répertoire sera considéré comme sûr par l'anti-virus, ce qui évitera ce genre de souçis et cas de faux positifs liés au mise à jour de Train Simulator.

Bonjour @philippedib, 

Essayez d'installer RW Enhancer 2 dans un autre endroit sur votre PC il s'agit surement d'un souçis de droit d'accès sur votre ordinateur à l'emplacement ou vous essayez d'installer le logiciel.

Si le problème persiste merci de me contacter par message privé, merci ! 

If you find something that could help me to fix the issue you had the first time, please send me that by private message  

I can also recommend you to add an anti-virus exclusion rule for both RW Enhancer directory and TS directory (the whole directories and not just RWE2 and TS executables files). From time to time, especially when a new update of RWE 2 is available the various anti-virus softwares can cause some odd issues in the communication process between RWE 2 and TS. 

As a reminder, you can play TS with RWE 2 graphics enhancements without being required to launch RWE 2. Just like RWE 1/Pro (if you have at least performed the RWE 2 cooking process at least once).

Of course if you want to have RWE 2 gameplay features (HUD, audio enhancements, radio, PIS...) RWE 2 need to be launched and active  

Hello Acidbottle, 

Could you tell me more about the crash ? Is there any message or something else that could help me to identify the issue ? 

You can revert back to original RWE without any issue yes.