TRAIN SIM WORLD 2: ADD-ON MANAGER
**It’s been a long journey, but we’re happy to announce today that the Add-ons
Manager has been released on console for Train Sim World 2 players. **
Initially, this was planned as a fix to issues surrounding the 64GB Add-ons
limit for PlayStation 5 players - PS5 players were unable to see all of their
downloaded add-ons when breaching 64GB worth of content. Our team have been
working closely with Sony on this issue, who themselves had not seen any issues
like this before, and we’ve been frequently providing progress updates in our
Roadmaps.
Solving this issue ultimately allows PS5 players to access all Train Sim World 2
add-ons without having to worry about the 64GB limit, and works by pre-loading
routes and locomotives based on the content that players would choose to play.
An added benefit to this was that memory usage may also drop slightly through
the reduced ‘mounting’ of content during each session.
After a phase of successful testing through our beta team, we believe that these
memory improvements may possibly reduce (but not necessarily solve) the
frequency of ‘Out of Memory’ crashes for players of 8th-generation consoles with
lots of Add-ons installed, playing high-density routes. Whilst this isn’t
intended to be a ‘silver bullet’ on the memory front (Xbox Series S players may
not see any improvement, for example) it is a step in the right direction and we
will continue to work on memory issues during subsequent testing and in future
updates.
We had previously stated that PC platforms would receive Add-ons Manager, but we
saw negligible impact on the ‘Out of Memory’ errors, so didn’t want to
overcomplicate things. As the majority of the work had been done on Train Sim
World 2, we wanted to complete that in its entirety before porting the work onto
Train Sim World 3 next.
Now we’ve released on Train Sim World 2, Train Sim World 3 is our next focus,
and we’ll provide an update on progress in October’s Roadmap, currently due on
Thursday October 6th.
This has been a long time coming, and we appreciate everyone’s patience as we’ve
put together this solution for a complex issue. We hope this will provide a
long-term, robust benefit for our console players.
Please allow for 24 hours for the update to hit your console devices before
contacting Dovetail Support, and let us know your feedback on our forums
[http://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/train-sim-world-add-ons-manager-is-here.59837/]
Train Sim World 3 - 4 months ago