This is a fork of OpenRails, including Monogame patch and many other improvements and performance tweaks. The master branch is kept in mostly sync with OpenRails Source Code
If you came here just to download the software, please see the Releases section to download a recent version of the software. Simply unzip the download folder and start OpenRails.exe. Once started, please be aware there may be updates available immediately, as the release page only has major release packages, while minor updates are only available through the Auto-Updater, or announced in our News section in the wiki.
If you are interested in more information, documentation and news regarding recent updates, please check the Wiki.
If you have bright ideas, questions or other topics to discuss, please share them in the Discussions section.
To report bugs or other issues, use the Issue Tracker. Please provide as much input possible, ideally attaching log files or other relevant and supporting information.
Anyone is welcome to contribute, and this is not limited to programmers writing code. There are many areas which would benefit from a wide range of skills, experience or purely passion, such as improvements to visual designs, documentation and translations, support with project management and feature planning, software architecture and design, or research for new technologies and frameworks. Check the contribution guidelines for further details, submit change proposals through pull requests, or introduce your thoughts for contribution in a Discussion.
Assuming you are running on Windows 10 with recent patch status (version 1809 or higher), there are no separate downloads needed, all pre-requisites such as DirectX and .NET Framework 4.8 are already part of the OS. Same also applies to fully patched Windows 7 SP1. You will need to have an DirectX 11.0 compatible graphics adapter (GPU).
As of February 2021 and version 1.3.6-ci.9, we are preparing to move to .NET Core 3.1 framrework, and the launcher will show a message about that. While current versions still are available for .NET framework 4.8, please install .NET Core 3.1 to support future upgrades.
If you are on an older or unsupported OS version, you may need to download and install some prerequisites manually:
To install on Linux, please see the wiki
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