The list of routes will be regularly updated and completed.
The most interesting BVE and OpenBVE routes can be downloaded by clicking on the blue button 'Routes' above. Where to find the routes (=the railway lines)? The most interesting trains can be downloaded by clicking on the yellow button 'Rolling stock' above. You have a view from the driving cab, as a driver, but also the view of your train from outside (or even from inside, but not from the driving cab) and even animated objects, which is usually very pleasant and realistic. Please check where to install your routes (route, object and sound files) and your trains.Ī lot of trains have been developed for BVE and OpenBVE. The trains, developed specifically for OpenBVE, allow external views of the train. The newer OpenBVE program can be downloaded by clicking on the green button 'OpenBVE' above. OpenBVE has advanced features and does not need to have BVE installed. The original Japanese BVE program can be downloaded from.
Some routes on which to drive your trains. Thanks to Michelle and her followers for OpenBVE.Ĭompared to Microsoft Train Simulator (MSTS) and other payware, OpenBVE is a free-as-in-freedom, public domain, open source, cross platform train simulator. If this is the case, please let us know by posting on the forum or opening an issue on GitHub, and we’ll try and get to the bottom of it.OpenBVE (and its ancestors BVE2 and BVE4) allows you to drive any train and route from your choice of many available from around the world. Whilst they are generally stable, it’s important to remember that sometimes things may not work quite right. These provide a daily snapshot, which is automatically built from the current source whenever a change is made. Nightly builds are available from this address: Some testing has been done on Apple M1 based machines, and whilst these appear to work correctly, they are not officially supported. Please see the following issue for more details / discussion: Please note that on Catalina and higher, OpenBVE uses a more limited OpenGL based main menu. OpenBVE is provided as a standard compressed archive. This is available by default in the current Debian stable (Buster), or alternatively Mono provide repositories for all supported Debian & Ubuntu variants. Please note that OpenBVE now requires Mono 5.20 or newer. Ubuntu, Debian and Compatibles (.deb package): The most recent stable version of OpenBVE is: OpenBVE is provided as a standard Windows Installer.