Problem with Tilting Stock

GilbertsFridge · Post by **GilbertsFridge** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:14 pm

Hello all.

I seem to be having difficulty with all of the tilting trains available at this site. I have downloaded the APT-E, APT-P and the Pendolino but I've never been able to see them as whenever I start an activity using them, the game crashes.

Has anyone else had this problem? And is there any known cure?

Thanks in advance.

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:30 pm

If you mean tilt, the trains can never tilt in MSTS.

suffolk · Post by **suffolk** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 2:33 pm

BR never managed to get over that problem with APT neither.

GilbertsFridge · Post by **GilbertsFridge** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:05 pm

I realise that they cannot tilt within the game, the problem I have is that the game will not start at all if I have select them for an activity. They appear quite happily in the activity editor, but if I try to use any of them as either AI trains, static consists or even to drive, I get the Send Don't send message half way through loading the simulation.

Its quite frustrating and probably has something to do with my machine. I haven't got the most powerful computer in the world, but it handles everything else quite nicely with the settings on max, but these wonderful models I see in various screenshots just will not work for me.

Any ideas???
Help...

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:07 pm

I have no problems with all three models. And why do you only get the errors on these trains? These MSTS trains were not built for tilting, they are the same as the other trains.

GilbertsFridge · Post by **GilbertsFridge** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 4:29 pm

I'm not sure why it should only be these particular trains, although I've just down loaded the MML 357 and that won't work either. Its probably me but I'm not doing anything different when installing them. I've got the Virgin Voyager and that works fine, the Metro 333 is fine also.

markw · Post by **markw** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 5:59 pm

It may be texture size. On my old machine APT-P wouldn't work until the 512x512 textures were uploaded, and I'm not sure but Pendo might be the same. You may need to go into the source files and see if there are alternative textures available - there are for APT-P.

GilbertsFridge · Post by **GilbertsFridge** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 7:06 pm

Thanks. I'll look in to that.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 7:12 pm

some older 3D cards don't like 1024 textures, so that would be suggestion to, go and shrink the textures...

Horgy · Post by **Horgy** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:46 pm

Have you created a consist? Sounds silly, but I didn't package the 357 with one, make sure you have them set up.

Horgy

megatron · Post by **megatron** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 12:52 am

As mentioned above try using the 512 textures. Im pretty sure all the models u mean have both 1024 and 512 textures with them.
Look the in trains folder and see if there is a sub folder called 512textures or similar. Just copy these into the trains main folder and hopefully ur problems will be solved!

GilbertsFridge · Post by **GilbertsFridge** » Mon Feb 03, 2003 7:01 pm

Hello. The problem was indeed the graphics card, I have changed the texture files and all is now hunkidory, I now have a wonderful shiny pendolino.

Thanks for the advice.

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Problem with Tilting Stock

Problem with Tilting Stock

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