Problem with Great Eastern activity

cambrian06 · Post by **cambrian06** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:57 pm

I'm having a problem with activity 5, Liverpool St to Clacton & Harwich. Approaching Gidea Park around mp 13 the screeen freezes, sound continues, and I then get an error message saying "no extended shape data for Dynatrax 40386.s can anyone help with this please?

roonaldo26 · Post by **roonaldo26** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:36 pm

Hi there sounds like you meed the 1.2patch from the makingtracks website it might help you.Are the other activities working ok.

cambrian06 · Post by **cambrian06** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:21 am

I already have the 1.2 patch installed. I've now discovered that the problem occurs approaching Gidea Park from either direction, the error message is the same. I've done a windows search and the file named in the error message is present in the Great Eastern shapes folder.

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:47 am

The error message refers to a piece of finescale trackwork so obviously it will showup whenever the required tile is loaded. The .s file may be present but the .sd file (which is what the 'extended shape data' means) is probably not. While not every .s file has an associated .sd file, most do, and without it the .s file is effectively incomplete.
With GE being a self-installing route, I'm not sure if it's possible to extract that file alone from the CD and reinstall it; a full reinstall of GE would be the only option in that case - which seems rather like using a JCB to sugar your tea...
Maybe Making Tracks, the authors of the route, can help.

BarryH - thenudehamster

champy · Post by **champy** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:52 am

I would say that you have the Dynatracks section installed and already there and its more than definately a Memory issue. Failure to load track sections is an Over load of memory. Try changing your settings.
If you want a more definaitve answer i suggest you move this question to the making tracks forum

Jon Champ
Making Tracks

cambrian06 · Post by **cambrian06** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:36 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, I seem to have discovered an interesting conundrum here, if I reduce the display settings the route refuses to load (crashes out approx 75% into setting up simulation user interface) if I increase display settings route loads but crashes out whenever train approaches Gidea Park. I tried approaching Gidea Park on an outside camera view and crashed out on a tree shape error message instead of a track shape! I'm assuming now that this is probably a PC resources issue, maybe it's time for the new PC I've been promising myself for a while.
Before I make that decision I'll try the route out on my son's much higher spec PC next week - if it's OK on that then I think the decisions made.
Happy new year everyone.

alanch · Post by **alanch** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:41 pm

Hi

Have you tried installing the Bin patch - that should sort out the MSTS memory handling problems for you, as well as having many other benefits. And if your not happy with it, you can easily remove it.

If you want more information on this, have a look at the Bin Patch forum below.

Alan

richardparker · Post by **richardparker** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:27 pm

hi
i have encounted atleast 5 acts wene running GE that crash out for example the 37 tanks from stratford and the 47 continetal which crashes out just before the end at liverpool st but all seem to be something to do with a1 traffic as cant load car file.
r.parker.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:52 am

Are you using the recommended options as listed in the manual ?

All the acts were written and tested without MSTSBin to work on reasonable spec machines without a problem.
Does your spec meet the minimum spec listed ? (I've seen reports that GE will run perfectly well at specs far lower than the minimum)

richardparker · Post by **richardparker** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:29 am

hi
yes specs are ok other some acts work as said there seems to be something wrong wene a certain a1 consist is used.ps running without mstbin.still trying to find the consist a1 that is the cause going through them slowly.
r.parker.

RiscaStation · Post by **RiscaStation** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:42 am

cambrian06 wrote:I already have the 1.2 patch installed. I've now discovered that the problem occurs approaching Gidea Park from either direction, the error message is the same. I've done a windows search and the file named in the error message is present in the Great Eastern shapes folder.

Hi

I assume you installed patch 1.1 before you installed patch 1.2 ?

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