Atomic Systems

JustinEss wrote I recommend downloading the newest drivers from ATI, the ones on the CD are old. I would be cautious that upgrade. I followed the link you gave, and obtained the drivers-only update for the card and OS from the site it linked to. After installing, I ended up with flickering vertical ...

I haven't got round to using the Dev tools yet, I upgraded the graphics card and am wandering around the S&D with the scenery slider set to max amazed at all the new detail everywhere. I suspect that all banking experiments are doomed by the physics issue of rolling stock freezing when the driver mo...

ASUS (ATI) AX1650PRO AGP, 256Mb, running a flat-screen at 1280x1024, RS windowed at 1024x768 I upgraded from my old Nvidia Geoforce FX5700 last night, I got this new card from Amazon for £35. It had taken me a while to find an AGP card at a sensible price, because everyone is pushing PCI Express now...

jivebunny wrote Whilst it doesn't really show any of the operations discussed in this thread, the below video does show the possibilities with the AI and driver commands in TRS A fascinating video, and it captured the flavour of watching a railway very well indeed. It is the sort of thing I would li...

I reloaded TRS2004 onto my machine during the long wait for RS to arrive, and was just starting to get to grips with the driver commands, using an excellent route called UK Somewhere, and Paul Gausden's O1 engine and SECR stock. The Trainz sounds and steam were poor (in my opinion), but other aspect...

Sadly, it isn't possible to do that, because if the banking engine isn't coupled to the train, it is trying to push the dead weight of 6 coaches and another engine. If you switch to the train engine and start it moving, the banker stays stationary. Flip back to the banker and open the regulator, and...

pepe008 wrote i do think that people are giving these guys a hard time over nothing, and as said before its FREE, they could have charged us, I don't want to "knock RSDL", but I think you should understand this: The advertised ability to develop routes and content was part of the package for which I...

I've tried both Firefox and IE, I suspect it's a problem with too many users, not the browser. Before anyone starts ranting about how they're switching back to Trainz, I've found that Auran's download station is very variable in terms of access and speed, even for a 1st-class ticket. I'm intrigued t...

Don't worry John, a little bit of prodding won't hurt anybody, and they might as well know that somebody wants to see it appear. I might even release a route of my own one day, but it won't be for MSTS. Not unless they work out how to get bogie stock round tight corners in a smooth controlled manner...

johndibben wrote The release of Highworth is not far off. I'm glad to hear it. I found the Highworth site in 2003/4 and it was what got me switched on to MSTS. I had previously been trying to write a JACL game that wandered along the Rye and Camber tramway as if it were a text adventure game, but po...

CaptainBazza wrote

I can see a server overload developing on the 12th.

Oh no, not _another_ thing to be complained about

Thanks for the heads-up Mike, I hadn't realised they were up and running until I downloaded the PO&N today.

It's a different world over on those forums. You wouldn't think that they're still months away from their official release date.

Had to laugh at the 'incessantly moaning' post.

Just idly playing with the 2D map, and I discovered that if you use the mouse wheel to zoom out so that you can see other stations on the map as well as your own, and then shift-click on one of these areas, it becomes the new centre of the map. Leave the map and then come back in, and you are still ...

I just had a try on a curve with the 7f and a 5-plank wagon. I stopped with the buffer on the inside of the curve just overlapping the wagon buffer, and a gap between the buffers on the outside of the curve and was able to couple up without problems. You don't need to get the buffers touching on bot...

Pmorgancym wrote missed a trick there you should have the points change after we whistle once we're clear of them Someone might be able to implement that once we get the tools for scripting? It would be wonderful if we could get it working, very prototypical. Also it might be possible to link the cr...