jpvdveer

Even Microsoft itself has ended support for Windows 7 more than two years ago. Security patches are no longer provided, leaving your PC vulnerable to viruses and hacking attempts. You should upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 ASAP, and certainly not be surprised that third parties will not support WIndows 7 either.

I think exactly this has been implemented already in one of the most recent updates.

Yeah, but I'm talking here about cases where RWE2 declares tasks finished well before TS does. Yesterday I had a stop between 10:40 and 10:45, where the stop in TS lasted until 10:45 (correctly) but where RWE2, for some reason, declared the stop finished at 10:41 already. A rule in RWE2 where tasks cannot be completed in RWE2 if the departure time has not yet been reached would help here.

It would indeed be good for this to be given some attention. It happens fairly often, and I believe also in other conditions than the one described above, that RWE2 completes tasks minutes before the actual departure time, resulting in the guard whistle being blown (far) too early. Wouldn't it be possible to impose a simple condition under which a task with departure time of, say, 10:45 can never be completed before that time (or, say, 10 seconds before that, to allow time for the guard whistle)?

Yes, but you can configure Windows to accept longer path names. As it happens, I used an installer for an MSFS airplane yesterday, by the leading third-party developer PMDG. MS Flight Simulator has ridiculously long path names (eg C:\Users\Public\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb334edw\LocalCache\Packages for all third-party content), such that the 256-character imit quickly becomes an issue. That particular installer actually offered to adjust the Windows path name limit, which I took up. Maybe useful.

I remember the picture - also had this at some point, years ago But no idea any more how I got there or how I got out of it! I would definitely recommend trying to get used to the RWE2 HUD as this provides you with a much better feel for the train that you are driving!

Completely agreed.

Nice! [As with all elements of the HUD, it would be nice to be able (eventually) to reduce the size of this, and also to reduce the opacity of this to 0% (such that only the actual speed figure would remain visible and can unobtrusively be put in some unused corner of the screen).]

For me, as Dutch native, it is very common (with the Dutch spelling promille). The English term was also new to me, despite having lived in the UK for a number of years. As per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille Rather than "permile", it may be somewhat clearer to use "per mille", though both ways of spelling the term seem acceptable.

Looks good to me. Modding capabilities will be key here - the German community will no doubt step in and provide the actual DB announcements as freeware. (By the way, this discussion may get more traction if a new topic was opened for it on rail-sim.de.)