Steam Worshop

[thetrainfan]

I'll plug my own
Woodhead
Covering Duties
0905 Sheffield - Manchester
1420 Denby Dale - Sheffield

IOW
Festival Rush
Engineering Assistance

EG
0556 Dundee - Edinburgh

LB
Easy Like A Sunday Morning

S&C
5Z35 - Neville Hill - Carlisle

Sherman Hill
Going Back Home (uploaded by me, not rsworkshop).

[fourletr]

All I get when trying to access the Steam Workshop is a message saying "Steam Community Overlay disabled" Well it isn't so now what?

[OrpheusRocker]

Richard,
Go to Steam settings, In Game tab and check 'Enable Steam Community'

[fourletr]

Done that no change ! I can only access the Workshop content by going directly to Steam. Then it works (sort of) Not exactly intuitive. My understanding was that one could access the scenarios etc directly from RS 2013's menu option. Am I wrong?

[1S811985]

Am I wrong?

That was my impression as well but it seems that the in-game menu will open up steam in order to access the workshop. It's a little clumsy, I agree.

1S81

[fourletr]

Does the in-game menu (I'm assuming you mean TS2013's Main Menu/Steam Workshop/Play/Get Scenarios) open Steam's access to Workshop for you?

It just gives me the arcane message "Steam Community overlay is disabled. In your Steam settings,please enable Steam Community In-Game" I've done this and it makes absolutely no difference at all. Seems to me the link is broken or non-existent, I've reported it to Railworks.com but got a polite but not very helpful "boilerplate" message by return. It suggested I contact Steam Directly, which I tried, to no avail. Surely if there is supposed to be a link between TS2013 and Steam, it's Railwork's job to provide it. Can't be very difficult, presumably it's just a url link.

[fourletr]

This is what Train Simulator 2013 suggest...

Q. How do I Download a Scenario?

From the main menu of Train Simulator click Steam Workshop.

Click Play.
Click Get Scenarios.
This will pop up the Steam Overlay and allow you to browse through the Train Simulator Workshop.
Find a scenario that interests you and click it.
If you decide you want to download it, click the green Subscribe button.
When you're done, you can simply press Shift-Tab to jump back to the sim and it will automatically download and install the scenario(s) that you subscribed to while in the overlay.

But it doesn't work !!

[AndyUK]

I think in fairness to RSC it does work, provided you've got the Steam Community in game set up correctly. Without going as far as trying to download from the Workshop do you see a little drop down box appear in the top right hand corner of the screen as TS2013 loads? It's got the Steam logo on it and says something like 'Access the Steam Community whilst playing ....'

If you don't see that then I'm 99% certain the problem lies with the way you've got Steam set up.

Presumably 'Enable Steam Community In-Game' is staying ticked and you have got Steam online?

Have you got a Steam profile set up? I think that's necessary for Steam Community In-Game to work but someone more familiar with Steam might like to jump in and advise you on that, but I have a Steam profile and Steam Community In-Game works for me as does downloading from the Workshop.

Andy L

[1S811985]

Does the in-game menu (I'm assuming you mean TS2013's Main Menu/Steam Workshop/Play/Get Scenarios) open Steam's access to Workshop for you?

Yes.

Just to be sure can you open steam, go to library, right click on Train Simulator 2013, select properties and check that the "enable steam community in game" box is ticked.

More here:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -yofv-0014

Hope this helps,

1S81

[fourletr]

Thanks Guys: I finally cracked it and it WORKS! Obviously my 81 year old crystal ball is a bit clouded because I see no mention of all the things that have to be set up to make this work.

Anyway, overall impression of TS2013 is favourable. A few things are as yet unclear but I guess I'll figure them out in due course. Certainly the graphics are better and the programme runs more smoothly and loads faster.

We leave the UK to return to our other base in Canada later this week. I'm looking forward to trying it out on my desktop which has more "grunt" than this laptop I have here, in fairness though it is quite acceptable on the Laptop.

For those of you wishing to compare here's the specs for my laptop.
Acer Aspire 6920G Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 (2 Ghz, 667 Mhz FSB L2 cache) up to 230 Mb NVIDIA Geforce 9500M GS Turbo Cache 4GB DDR2 RAM

TSX Running. Most Graphic critical settings at maximum.

Talk to you later (as they say in Canada)

Richard

[jstange]

Great that you made it work finally. I had the same issue and the trick was you had to enable this option first on the global level under the general Steam settings and then under the game itself (in its properties). I first enabled it only globally not knowing the latter is needed too.

[fourletr]

Yep !! That's the trick, BUT where oh where does TS or Railworks or whatever they now want to be called, tell you this?

Off topic, I wonder how difficult it would have been to have linked the "Manuals" button to the manuals folder instead of "greying it" Yes I know I can put a shortcut on my desktop same as I have done with Utilities, perhaps we should put shortcuts for the whole darn game on our desktops. Come on boys, enough of this "Good Enough" software, I remember from my programming days how we condemned software companies that issued "good enough" software and let the users find the bugs and do the QC.

End of rant !

I love the programme and as I've said before and elsewhere as I can no longer afford to build real model railways (fixed income) this makes a wonderful substitute.

[1S811985]

Thanks Guys:

Glad you got it sorted. Safe journey home.

1S81

[home1]

i have tried to run back to basics for london to brighton.but workshop says i need euro assett pack installed but steam says i have it.and i have cheacked cache as well.any ideas?.thank you.

[andynwt]

I like how when you finish a workshop scenario, it asks you to rate the test chamber