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• "Wanna know why TSW doesn't use more than 2GB of VRAM? Because that's all it fucking needs!"
  
  Fucking excuse me. The game. Does. Not. Work. I don't give a shit how much VRAM it needs, it doesn't work. It runs like shit. Also, how is me saying I have DDR5 RAM lying by omission? It was a typo. One I hadn't noticed, and I thank you for pointing out to me, but I'd like to quietly point back at the fact that 16 GB of DDR4 RAM are more than sufficient to run TSX. I gave you the full specs of my PC. Would you like to know which PSU I use as well? Here, I'll find you the Amazon link to the exact fucking RAM sticks I'm using.
  
  I tried cranking the settings up. Anything past medium tanks the FPS. Turning on any semblance of AA tanks the FPS. Reflections of any sort tank the FPS. Would you like me to record gameplay? I'll fucking happily do so if it'll put your accusations of this being bait to bed.
  
  
• "You're operating under the double-downie assumption that you're somehow meant to buy all the fucking dlc."
  
  Did you not read the bit of my post where I said I understood this was not the case and then pointed as to why having that much DLC for a game which does not work is a problem? Evidently your reading comprehension skills are at least as wonky as my comprehension of business.
  
  
• "1) Literally anyone can go to DB or Virgin or Amtrak or whatever the fuck and negotiate their own deal. 2) Licenses aren't even fucking required in the first place, and DTG only negotiates them as a courtesy to licensors and, rarely, to get access to prototypes for reference and recordings."
  
  Oh, really? Is that why BNSF had to pull all of their routes out of the European market? Because licenses are so easy to get? Or why it seems that people would rather have trains running around with "Verguba" written on the side than "Virgin," and have in the DLS for T:ANE for ages now? If you go to the forums there, you'll find that literally only JointedRail has any sort of licensing rights, and all of those are for Burlington Northern.
  
  
• "Look, I get that you're upset."
  
  I'm really not. I'm elated, in fact. DTG had to close down Flight Sim World because they're bleeding money, and hard. The sooner they go under, the sooner they lose all their licenses, and someone else can finally make content featuring Arriva trains without being sued into oblivion.
  
  
• "DRS and TSW aren't in a battle to the death (except in the minds of disconnected fanboys looking for a wagon to hitch to), and there's room in the marketplace for them to coexist... which they probably will, for a very long time."
  
  Train Simulator 2018 is having a free weekend right now where Dovetail Games literally forgot to add any content to their game. If they hadn't, people would at least know that most routes don't work, and that the average FPS is in the ballpark of 30.
  
  Oh, and for the record, if I was a "fanboy", I'd have spent the entirety of my post plugging Auran's Trainz: A New Era because it is objectively the better train sim out the two of them. Did I? No. Because this is about an indie game that needs our support. Not a dick measuring contest for DTG fanboys who'd rather grin and bear the 30 FPS than admit their sacred cow shat the bed.

There’s cheap kits for fight sticks on amazon that come with everything you need

XCSOURCE Zero Delay Arcade DIY Kit Parts USB Encoder To PC Joystick 5Pin Rocker + 10pcs White Push Buttons AC783 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0714DLWX6/

It took me about an hour, the board I got wasn’t well labeled. But it works great! (I use it mainly for shmups) my computer detects it as some kind of game pad. (Some games show Xbox button prompts).

I also set up a... Leonardo KEYESTUDIO Leonardo R3 Development Board with USB Cable for Arduino https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0786LJQ8K/

I also made a cardboard box as a pinball controller, that took a little programming; it’s arduino though so I basically copied example programs and tweaked the buttons being sent.

It’s easy to get into and do, and pretty cheap. If you buy a board just make sure it supports operating as a USB HID, that’s how the computer sees keyboards and game pads.

What’s the controller/game? If you don’t mind

Edit: removed ref from links, idk what it does but don’t wanna look like I’m getting paid!

$7.99 from amazon