Mazzie:
For a laugh, since both games don’t do rigids out the box, I recently downloaded a rigid mod and had a go doing reversing in that. I know it sounds daft, but until I get into an actual truck and have my lessons, it’s cool to have a go and learning the angles you need. Of course I’m under no illusion that it’s going to be the same, but if it helps even a little bit and I can have fun at the same time, then why not.
It is not daft - you will give yourself an advantage with simulator practice.
It will help you with learning the angles as you say & also how restrictive the mirror view is & how best to utilise them.
Pilots use flight simulators for training so why not truckers using truck simulators?
There is a guy on YouTube called Squirrel who is a huge ETS player. He’s kinda the OG of sim streamers. He’d been playing the game for years and even had some input in its development.
After a while, and getting more well known, Scania invited him to Sweden to drive some real trucks, and he was pretty much a “proper” driver, just from the sim driving.
He’s also gone on to fly real aircraft after playing flight sims for years too.
109LWB:
There is a guy on YouTube called Squirrel who is a huge ETS player. He’s kinda the OG of sim streamers. He’d been playing the game for years and even had some input in its development.
After a while, and getting more well known, Scania invited him to Sweden to drive some real trucks, and he was pretty much a “proper” driver, just from the sim driving.
He’s also gone on to fly real aircraft after playing flight sims for years too.
Squirrel is awesome! Love watching his vids and streams - he’s got an amazing setup too, some serious life goals lol.
Mazzie:
if you have a graphics cards that lets you whack up the visuals to the max
I have done some “research” on this. It is rarely the graphics card that holds things back with ATS/ETS. The problem is that the basic foundation of the game (2012?) can only use one core/processor at any time (it can and does use two, but not very well). So you might have a £2,000 GPU, and a 16-core CPU and still get poor performance! If you wanted to build a PC specifically for ETS2, the MAIN thing you should look for is the single-core performance figure. And LOTS of fast RAM!
Of course, if you want a three-monitor set-up, then you will need a beefy GPU with loads of spare graphics RAM!
wakou:
Well yes! EVERYTHING has to be programmed! The mapping is very simplified, only major roads/cities.
And the cities are just one or two industrial estates. Sometimes with local landmarks. I have the Gherkin and Canary Wharf as the view from my London “depot”!
You want to quit virtual haulage mate and flog that piece of land instead!
In real-life, a bloke I worked for did exactly that! He OWNED the freehold of his depot in NW London (Park Royal) And realised that the property was worth far more than he could ever make managing a haulage business.
He now lives in Eze-sur-Mer, 5 minutes from Monaco, and 10 minutes to Nice!
ScaniaUltimate:
Regarding the OP:
Here’s what a real Romanian layby looked like in the early 90’s…
Ha! I still have a ‘romantic’ vision of Romania. I never got to go there when I was a “Euro-trucker”; the business I was in (transport of art and antiques), it was simply never economic to send a truck there. Box it up and send it via air-freight, etc. Or get a local sub-contractor. … We couldn’t even get insurance for “South of Rome”!
(And besides, my TM bloody LOVED Italy!.. So any job for Milan, Florence, Bologna etc would “mysteriously” be covered by Alan… And the truck would return, needing a fork-lift to unload the “personals” Wine, cheese, ham, olive oil etc… And yes, I know I digress, and Italy is not Romania, etc!)
But still, I want to go to Romania, just looking at maps makes me drool! Mountains, forests, castles, tiny villages lost in time etc…
Mazzie:
if you have a graphics cards that lets you whack up the visuals to the max
I have done some “research” on this. It is rarely the graphics card that holds things back with ATS/ETS. The problem is that the basic foundation of the game (2012?) can only use one core/processor at any time (it can and does use two, but not very well). So you might have a £2,000 GPU, and a 16-core CPU and still get poor performance! If you wanted to build a PC specifically for ETS2, the MAIN thing you should look for is the single-core performance figure. And LOTS of fast RAM!
Of course, if you want a three-monitor set-up, then you will need a beefy GPU with loads of spare graphics RAM!
Not strictly true, I ran ets and ats on 3 monitors on my ancient pc with a gtx970 with 2gb ram. It wasn’t at the highest settings, but it ran fine at 60fps.
109LWB:
Not strictly true, I ran ets and ats on 3 monitors on my ancient pc with a gtx970 with 2gb ram. It wasn’t at the highest settings, but it ran fine at 60fps.
