In July 2008, the developer stated that he was rewriting BVE Trainsim from scratch because the previously released versions (BVE 2 and BVE 4) do not work with DirectX 9, and that the new version would support Windows Vista and Windows 7. The London Transport Museum used BVE Trainsim 4 to provide a simulation platform, within a mock underground rolling stock of the London Underground 1996 Stock, before later porting to openBVE in 2010.īVE Trainsim 5 was officially released on 5 September 2011 as the successor to BVE 4. The latest version of BVE 4 is ver.25355 which was released on. It also has better graphics than BVE 2 with the latter being a major update. Because of the cancellation of version three, this was the first follow-on stable version since version two. Screenshot of a British Rail Class 323 driver's cab in BVE 4īVE Trainsim 4, released in 2005, added support for plugins to simulate train safety systems other than ATS and ATC.

Routes built by independent developers simulate rail activity in Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Route builders have produced over 300 additional routes for the program, along with matching cab environments. Īlthough the internal working of the BVE Trainsim program itself cannot be modified, additional routes and train cab views can be added via a number of text-based configuration files.

BVE Trainsim was designed and developed by Takashi 'Mackoy' Kojima starting in 1996 with the original program name coming from the Japanese 255 series multiple unit trains found in routes in Japan. other trains passed along the route are only displayed as stationary objects.

It is notable for focusing on providing an accurate driving experience as viewed from inside the cab, rather than creating a network of other trains BVE Trainsim (originally Boso View Express ) is a Japanese three-dimensional computer-based train simulator.

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