Haha awsome. Thanks for the info.

I thought about a rail driver but 90% of my play in Run8 is shunting and switching -usually swapping locomotives and trains several times during a play session. A RailDriver would actually be really annoying in that context.

Yep own a RailDriver and every modern train sim and this one (run 8) is a pain to run

Indeed. For the first little while I printed out the 5 pages of keybinds. Luckily I already knew the concepts from years of MSTS, but Run8 was still a heck of a learning curve.

It's on my list of things to do!

Make sure you enter your product key under the 'License' tab in the window that pops up when you hit 'F1'.

Works fine if you do the entire consist including the locomotives, otherwise you'll blow the brake pressure and kick it into emergency. Unless you also use the F7 cheat to recharge the airbrakes.

Make sure you enter your purchase key under the 'License' tab in the F1 menu.

Make sure you've added your license key in the F1 menu.

Add your license key to the license tab in the F1 menu.

There's a lot of keybinds (about 4 pages worth if you print them out), but the ones I use in this video (about a dozen or so) are the ones you're going to use 90% of the time. The learning curve in Run8 is far more mechanical. IE, learning how to actually operate a train. It's not hard knowing how to activate the brakes with the keyboard, it's a lot harder learning when and how to operate the brakes. I'd say overall the game is harder to learn than ED, but OTOH I've been playing space sims since the early 90's and never found ED particularly difficult. As train sims go Run8 is far more accurate than most, so the learning comes from learning how to actually drive a train properly.

@@kalnaren good to know thank you

Chris Mims in the same place, under keybinds, or in the documentation folder where you installed Run8.

Ctrl-F11 puts you into the cab of a train you control. F11 makes you grab the grab irons of whatever rail unit you're looking at.

kalnaren oh thanks!

I don't think it mattered too much on a train this short with a trailing unit :P. On longer trains or heavier trains I wait for the brakes to completely charge before I go anywhere.

I don't have a rail driver, so I can't provide any help. You'll have to contact Run8 Studios.

You might have to calibrate it, also you parking break is remaining on you might need to press F5 to release it or press the parking break button on your rail driver

btw this video is so helpful 😇

It's an exec file, just double-click it and point it at your Run8 directory.

Are you playing on a laptop?

@@kalnaren Yes, laptop. This is an old V1 copy i figured out, changed the + key to another button but same problem., so maybe there's another key layout on this version. Solved the problem by just purchasing the V3. Now it works like a charm.

Make sure you've entered your license key in the 'F1' menu. This game does odd things if you haven't donw that.

From the website: www.run8studios.com/index.shtml

Did you register your license in the program?

@@kalnaren i got it working after some help from a run8 fb group.

The transaction ID circle should be green. When you say you can't select a train, do you mean you literally get zero feedback on the screen or anything when you click on one?

kalnaren when I click it it sends me to the conductors seat

The only way that you should end up on the interiour when clicking is if you're holding down F11 when clicking on a locomotive.

@@kalnaren sorry for late response, I went to a party. anyway I don't know why it sends me to the conductors set.

Maybe something got corrupted? Might have to reinstall.

Shift-F12

tried it , it worked thank :)

Well, it's more of a study simulator than an arcade game. TSW has terrible physics by comparison and practically no railroad operations. It looks pretty but that's about the only thing it does well. Couplers don't break or uncouple for "no reason". If you're constantly snapping couplers when trying to move you've either got your DPUs set up wrong (so you've got locomotives pulling in opposite directions), or you're not fully releasing all your brakes. Remember that a train from rest in Run8 has 3 brakes you need to release -the handbrakes for the entire consist, the independent brakes on the locomotives, and the automatic (air) brakes on the train. If you haven't set your anglecocks correctly you may not be releasing the air over the entire train. Use the SHIFT-B overlay to confirm this (as I go over at 9:45 in the video). If you follow ALL the instructions in this video in the order I've laid them out in, you'll get a train moving without issue. There are no shortcuts in Run8.