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Two identical discs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a warning to buyers of the Atari re-release of this game: I purchased it recently, and during install, learned that the two install discs are identical. Worse, they are marked disc one and disc two. But the contents of the discs are the same and cause the software to fail installation. Be prepared for this trouble.

Review of Amazon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 48
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not a review of the product, but a review of
Amazon in response to their incredibly bad customer
service.

I was about to order this from Amazon and then saw a proposed
shipping date of more than 2 weeks later. I decided not to order
and left Amazon. Imagine my suprise when five minutes later
I got an e-mail saying my order was in process.

Even worse, when I went to cancel the order, the product
was "shipping soon" and the order could not be cancelled
even though it has just been registered and still had an
estimated shipping date two weeks in the future.

When I wrote to customer service, I reveived what was clearly a form letter stating that the order could not be cancelled, but that I could return the product. Of course now, I am stuck with
the shipping fees both ways.

This is the last time I do business with Amazon. Since they
would not respond to my request, I am entering this review
to warn future customers of Amzon's questionable practices.

Hokey Looking Locomotive Simulator.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is apparent that the person or persons responsible for the picture of the inside of the locomotive cab doesn't know diddly about what a United States locomotive cab looks like on the in- side looking out. What you obviously have is the inside view of a European locomotive. Anybody who knows anything about the con- trols of a North American locomotive will be lost looking at that Hokey picture that you have in your ad. It even appears that the Engineer's position is on the left hand side, as in European practice. In North America the Engineer is on the right side of the locomotive cab. The Simulator Game may be great, but your ad gets a big fat "F."

Junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: June 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Save your money. It won't install properly and keeps crashing (the program, that is).

Wow this is probably the most boring game i've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: June 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong I love trains, but I think that this game is just terrible. The graphics are merely ok, nothing amazing. Microsoft in my opinion tried to make this game way to realistic, where it goes beyond fun and becomes a job. Also TS gets so boring and dull after about 20-30 minutes that you will most likely wish to return it. Overal, the game in MY OPINION is a disaster, but if you are a HARD CORE SIM FAN maybe you will enjoy MTS.

Microsoft Train Simulator

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great concept - wonderful game - but.... the game crashes everytime you play and takes forever to download - so where are the brilliant IT guys that created it. And guess what, when you call for assistance, they have absolutely no concept of how to fix the problem. This game has so much potential too bad it doesn't work. How about recreating the game ... and, oh, let's see, can you make it work this time, so it doesn't crash your system.

Chuga Chuga Klunk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Installation problems were not too bad, but it appears that Microsoft's remedy for its created monumental boredom is to arrange periodic system crashes to wake you up. After several of these experiences I uninstalled this fiasco and added it to the other accumulated trash in my waste basket.

Not so good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is fun the first hour or so after you buy then it gets boring. It has realy dumb features, and doesnt teach anything you ever need to know. The lessons are way to slow, and boring, the game is all boring in a mater of fact it is so boring it is boring thinking about it. It probaly could have been beter, but microsoft made a good decisian to work more on Flight sim and perfect it which they pretty much have and gave up on dumb train simulator. I wouldnt waste the money to buy this game.

Video Cards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This program did not work with my video card. Buyers are well advised to check the Microsoft site to see if the program will work with their video card. There are a number of them that it won't work with. I couldn't even get the patch to work.

Be Overly Cautious Before Buying this Sim

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 25
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who have been awaiting anxiously this Sim as was I for the last several months, be prepared for the very real possibility of a major disappointment. Check out forums on this product elsewhere; if you are fortunate to be one of the limited instances in which the Sim works fine, consider yourself lucky indeed. If not, be prepared to spend a considerable amount of time trying to recover from the many system crashes you will experience, or looking for that magic setup that may allow you to work the sim for a handful of minutes before it freezes.

According to the product information, the system requirements are these: Multimedia PC, Pentium II 266 MHz or faster processor (with 4 MB 3-D video hardware acceleration); Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, or Me; 32 MB RAM for Windows 95, 98, and Me; 64 MB RAM for Windows 2000; 500 MB hard disk space; 4x CD-ROM drive or faster; Microsoft mouse or other pointing device.

My own computer far exceeds these minimums, is updated regularly, and yet I've been able to experience little of the sim itself. (This is the same computer on which I use MSFS2K flawlessly at framerates in excess of 30-40fps.) MSTS fails repeatedly, reboots the system, and so on. In forums elsewhere, simmers are being advised to purchase other video cards, sound cards, upgrade drivers, and so on. If a particular video card is required, the product should stipulate this clearly.

Software out of the box should not be so mysterious, so complex, so detrimental to a computer system. Technically quite literate, I've never experienced anything like this. My MSTS is being returned today.

Be careful when considering this purchase.

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