It's taken 4 months, thousands of beta testers have spent many thousands of hours of testing, we've handled over 1,000 bug reports and test case follow-ups, fixed hundreds of bugs, and made dozens of optimisations and enhancements, we've improved performance and stability across the board, we've made a long list of graphical enhancements to ensure compatibility with a wide range of legacy content, we've solved a number of significant issues and solved many minor ones, AND... we're nearly ready for release!
Is this version going to be 100% perfect? Well, honestly, no. Complex software, combined with many thousands of assets created by the community across versions covering more than 15 years of development, is always going to deliver some hiccups. However, we're confident this update will be our smoothest update ever and will deliver the best, most stable and reliable version of Trainz ever!
This build will go out to our beta testers to confirm if it really is the "Final Beta". At this point, we will only be fixing critical issues if required. You will see from the "technical" nature of many of the fixes listed below that in addition to very user-facing items such as a serious merge map issue that affected bridge splines, we've addressed a long list of "assertions". These assertion messages alert programmers to potential problems and don't necessarily mean that the user will see anything different. Assertions will be turned off for the official release of SP2 and so for the majority of users, they will simply experience fewer problems such as timeouts, hangs or crashes.
For this final stage we've also updated all the DLC to be SP2 compatible. This means beta testers can now download their DLC content into SP2, including the Trainz Model Railroad 2017 DLC content (for owners of that product). Simply start Trainz and the 7 TMR routes and sessions will show as ready for download in-game.
Note: You will see a list of resource ids such as simc:45369 (part 1) etc. These will be updated to have the correct naming once the TMR content set is made available for purchase as DLC for TANE (i.e. once SP2 is officially released).
Patches have been created for:
If you have 84204 installed (the build number shows on your launcher) we've already provided you Beta Access. If you have this build and do not have access to the 'Beta Stream', please click on the bug report link at our Beta Test Center and send us a report including your username.
To update your existing SP1 HF4 build to SP2, please follow these steps carefully:
The update from 84204 is 2GB in size and therefore may take some time to download depending on your bandwidth and how busy our servers become.
If you get a connection error, click Retry and the process will pick up where it left off.
Once updated, the 'Engine Start-up' process will take another 5-10 minutes then you are ready to begin testing and submitting bugs that you find.
Please note if you have any of the following builds you can already update to 84204 by visiting this page.
79199
79947
80201
80276
80330
80349
81190
81296
82718
For existing customers with build 79000 or lower, we recommend you upgrade to TANE SP1 by installing the full version available for download from your MyTrainz.com account.