Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria for the Woodhead Route V2.2

iainstronach · Post by **iainstronach** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:38 pm

Piccadilly to Sheffield Victoria for the Woodhead Route Version 2.2

Well I have finally uploaded the above activity

This Activity is the conversion and enhancement of my Piccadilly to Woodhead activity for version 1.1

The journey now continues to Sheffield Victoria.

There is much more traffic on the line, some loose consists in the many sidings and limited traffic in the marshalling yards.

Frame rates drop to 6 on my AMD Athlone 2000xp with NVIDIA geforce 3 Ti200 video card.

A great deal of stock is required (42 items) and while seasoned Train sim members may already have most if not all of these items, new comers may have to download a lot of stock..

All the stock can be found in the UK Train Sim Download section and I have listed all the File Idâ€™s, the description and the relevant authors.
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I have also related all the stock needed for this activity on the download page

I would have liked to have put much more stock in the various sidings but MSTS was having none of it, and the frame rates would have suffered even more.

I did try using â€œLiteâ€

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:21 am

I must say, well done with the Relating file's.

and 42.

I will try to download it all and see...

Just because you've referenced all the files.

Sound's like a good activity anyway.

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:18 am

Many thanks Iain - sadly my 533 will not hack this but maybe when I upgrade this year...

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:43 pm

42 downloads? That'll take a life time. Surely there isn't that much stock in the universe. With stuff I've got and all that, I'd have everything.

Great job... but my 500 won't cope. I'll save it for Ron...

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:15 pm

2.0 Ghz.

I will try it out.

PaulCh · Post by **PaulCh** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:58 pm

qzdcg8 wrote:Many thanks Iain - sadly my 533 will not hack this but maybe when I upgrade this year...

Then my PII 350 definately won't.

phill70 · Post by **phill70** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:51 pm

Very good activity, however i have a athlon xp1800, 1gig ram, and 64mb gf2 400 and i was getting 3-7fps most of the time.
with mid east my average fps is 25ish

dbrett · Post by **dbrett** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:16 am

Worked fine for me - thanks for spending so much time on creating such an interesting activity!

Sure, the frame rates are low ( 6-11fps) even on my P4 2000, 1g, gf3, but the volume of AI traffic makes for such an interesting journey that you'll want to run it several times to appreciate it all - as long as your processor will cope with it.

As for the volume of downloads......that could be reduced by substituting similar models using MSTS Activity Analysis.

Dave

burninghorizons · Post by **burninghorizons** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:05 pm

I spent all night downloading all the files for this and found that a few of them are wrong. MSTS's errors soon pointed me in the right direction to find them though!

I have an XP2700+ overclocked to XP3000, a Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB and 512MB Ram. I get between 11 and 33fps. I have never seen a game run so slow on such a high spec machine - it's really funny! My system is tweaked to the MAX, to squeeze every last bit bit of performance out of it.
MSTS is 3 years old. This just shows how badly written it really is.

It really is a good activity though - I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I just wish I could run it at 30+fps all the way through.

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:37 pm

burninghorizons wrote: MSTS is 3 years old. This just shows how badly written it really is.

I have to agree. I have found Msts to be a very messy program.

iainstronach · Post by **iainstronach** » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:02 pm

burninghorizons wrote:I spent all night downloading all the files for this and found that a few of them are wrong. MSTS's errors soon pointed me in the right direction to find them though!

Wow thats some machine you have.

Sorry you had a problem with finding some of the stock

If you let me know which stock caused the problem I will look into it and hopefully correct it for others.