In July 2008, the developer had 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.
=== BVE Trainsim 5 ===В июле 2008 года разработчик указал, что пишет BVE сначала из-за изменений в DirectX 10, и новая версия будет официально поддерживать Windows Vista.