A comprehensive installation guide with stepbystep instructions on getting Microsoft Train Simulator to work on Windows 11, along with ReShade + RTGI shaders via dgVoodoo's DirectX API Wrapper.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro and Disclaimer
00:11 Chapter List
00:19 1 Downloading Required Files
01:50 2 Installing MSTS
04:41 3 Setting up dgVoodoo
07:19 4 Updating and Patching MSTS (Required)
08:18 4 Updating and Patching MSTS (Optional)
09:14 5 Adding WideScreen Support
11:37 6 Installing ReShade
12:55 6 Testing ReShade
14:29 6 Showcase ReShade

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Resource Links (In Sequence as shown in video):
MSTS ISOs: (Yeah I know I said I wouldn't provide it, but at this point, it doesn't really matter)
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mi...
"Installing MSTS On A Windows 10 PC" by Yuri Sos: https://web.archive.org/web/202303310...
MSTS Version 1.4 Webbased Updates: https://web.archive.org/web/202301150...
"Running MSTS at high resolution" by Digital Rails: https://digitalrails.com/wordpress/2...
dgVoodoo2 by Dege's stuffs: http://dege.fw.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/
MSTS Bin 1.8: https://nekocoaster.github.io/mstsbi...

ReShade: https://reshade.me/
Pascal Gilcher's ReShade Ray Tracing shader (RTGI):   / posts  

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Music Used:
1. Coldplay Life in Technicolor (Matt Crofford Remix)
2. Parra for Cuva Senoy Sacred Feathers
3. Tony Anderson Eyes Wide Open Cinematic Mix

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Related Documentations:
"A way to run MSTS and editors on Win10 with no nVidia graphics board" by csantucci: https://www.trainsim.com/forums/forum...

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System Specifications:
Laptop (Used for Installation Guide):
OS: Windows 11 Pro Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.708)
CPU: Intel i58300H CPU @ 2.30GHz
GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
GPU Driver: NVIDIA Studio Driver Version 512.59
RAM: SODIMM 16GB @ 2667MHz
Recorded with OBS Studio

Desktop (Used for ReShade Showcase):
OS: Windows 10 Pro Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1766)
CPU: Ryzen 5 5800X 3801 MHz
GPU: MSI Gaming X RTX 3060 Ti w/ MSI Afterburner Overclock
GPU Driver: NVIDIA Studio Driver Version 512.59
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB @ 3666 MHz
Recorded with OBS Studio
Edited with Vegas Pro 14

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Background (storytime lol):
Following my last upload on running MSTS on Windows 11, there have been a few comments requesting for help on how to resolve crashing issues while trying to run MSTS on windows 11.
After a bit of research, I've come to notice a pattern that most of the crashing issue caused by MSTS is related to the types of Graphics Card.

Seeing that MSTS has no issues running on nvidia GPUs while there were plenty of complains of MSTS crashing on AMD GPUs, I theorized that it could be something related to the DirectX API and the way the older DirectX APIs are handled by the different GPU Manufacturers.

As luck would have it, awhile back ago I was playing around with dgVoodoo to see if it could upscale the rendering resolution for my other older games, and after glancing through the documentation on how it works, I figured that I could use dgVoodoo to standardize/upgrade the API calls from older DirectX games to the more modern DX11/12, which in theory, should somewhat resolve the graphics related crashing issue for MSTS.

And so following this theory, I decided to try out installing the wrapper for MSTS to see if it resolves the low frame rate issue on my Intel + Nvidia Laptop, and to my surprise, it did. After the successful first test of this, I decided to do a trial test run on one of my friend's laptop which happened to have the worse case scenario of a Ryzen CPU with a Radeon discreet GPU.

As expected, Running MSTS without dgVoodoo resulted in an instant crash upon launching, but once I installed dgVoodoo's DX Wrapper, suddenly the game ran just fine. And after seeing how well this works, it felt like a hidden miracle gem of a fix that I felt needed to be PSAed to the rest of the TrainSim community as so many players have been facing this frustrating issue for many years, yet the fix was just under our nose the whole time.

As such, I decided to make this video as a complete guide from zero to RTXish (PTGI tbh).
(And also, to compensate for the "timelapse installation" in my other MSTS on windows 11 video. That was not helpful at all for users looking for a proper video solution to installing MSTS on Windows 11.)