New version of MSTSBin available to download

csantucci · Post by **csantucci** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:02 pm

Well, I have 1 GB RAM memory. With version 1.6.122008 (which works for me and for few other people) I get 320 MB allocated for MSTS. With version 1.6.122319 I get only 162. So for the moment I will go on using 1.6.122008.

Carlo

roonaldo26 · Post by **roonaldo26** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:08 pm

Im getting about 70mb on great eastern only have 512mb ram with windows xp pro sp2 .

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:28 pm

This is getting overly complicated now. I dont think im going to install any further patches until all work is done and the final version is out. All this uninstalling, copying, reinstalling etc is sure to mess my installation up

I'll stick with the first version of 1.6 - i only wanted the memory enhancement anyway and ive got that now

BobLatimer · Post by **BobLatimer** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:37 pm

Not a bad approach Laurie. Although the latest patch should improve memory handling even more.

Couple of things I've noticed with 1.6.122319. It seems to allow animations in wag files now and doesn't seem to get hung up on the "Wheels1" and "Wheels2" type statements in the shape file if there are no bogies.

One slightly disconcerting feature is that if I start with a consist with a flipped loco, forward is the forward direction for the unflipped loco, if you see what I mean. That's the way it was for a diesel I tried anyway. I'll have to try a steam loco.

OTTODAD · Post by **OTTODAD** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:51 pm

latimers wrote:One slightly disconcerting feature is that if I start with a consist with a flipped loco, forward is the forward direction for the unflipped loco, if you see what I mean. That's the way it was for a diesel I tried anyway.

If after changing locos to a rear one you do not look out of it's rearward facing window then hit the #1 key once more !

O t t o

BobLatimer · Post by **BobLatimer** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:56 pm

That's not exactly the problem Otto.

I have an activity that starts with a light engine, flipped, double-ended diesel. Currently it doesn't have a rear cab enabled. The activity starts with the loco and the cabview facing into the shed (i.e. away from the path). Under the previous Bin version, when I put it in reverse and increased the throttle, it backed out of the shed. With the latest version, in reverse it goes into the shed and in forward it "backs" out of the shed.

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:59 pm

Well the latest version has totally screwed up the driver aids I downloaded and installed after reading http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?t=62701 now I get exclamation marks instead of signal lights. So for me it is off to the backups and remove the latest patch and go back to what I had working before.

Regards

John

BobLatimer · Post by **BobLatimer** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:08 pm

I have just installed the latest patch and then re-installed the modified driver aids and eveything seems to be working okay.

alanch · Post by **alanch** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:27 pm

Me too - everything appears to work OK now.

Alan

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:37 pm

Same here - would have been nice if the instructions advised about this.

Regards

John

ronald parkin · Post by **ronald parkin** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:49 pm

Hi all , Just loaded it with no problems, Did not tick the driving aid like last time

Regards

Ron P

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:59 pm

ronald parkin wrote:Did not tick the driving aid like last time

When I installed it I did not ask for new driver aids (since I had the new ones advertised on the forums last week) but it still trashed those and I had to reinstall them.

Kindest regards

John

ashgray · Post by **ashgray** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:12 pm

For some reason, I managed to get the new patch installed properly first time. I've just ran a number of acts, including notorious memory sappers from DC3 & Thames- Mersey, and some that have given grief in the past, and can confirm a slight improvement in frame rates and memory usage. The white voids seem to be a thing of the past, and I've also noticed that several acts on different routes that would not run at all with the previous version now do so.

I see that the next patch version aims to equalise the MSTS clock with the actual run time for acts - another major pain.

So - from where I'm sitting, a big thumbs up and many thanks again to George!

Cheers
Ashley

OTTODAD · Post by **OTTODAD** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:24 pm

latimers wrote:Under the previous Bin version, when I put it in reverse and increased the throttle, it backed out of the shed. With the latest version, in reverse it goes into the shed and in forward it "backs" out of the shed.

Just tested my back-to-back DASH-9 pair with driver cabs at both ends, it's rear "Flipped" and not "Reversed", flipped bogies now turning properly into curves, having renamed it's *_rv.cvf files and starting it in reverse in it's lead loco it did just that and did not go forward !

It's been doing that under all versions of MSTS and MSTSBin !

May be a silly question, but your loco pair in that activity path is toggled to normally drive forward into the shed and not out of it ?

O t t o

BobLatimer · Post by **BobLatimer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:07 am

Hi Otto.

It's just one loco and in the consist it's flipped. I think that must be what's confusing MSTS Bin. If I unflip it, forward and reverse are where I would expect them to be. When it's flipped, forwards and reverse are the opposite to where I would expect them to be.

It's more noticeable when there's no _rv.cvf, since forwards then must be the end with the cabview on it. And that's the way it operated under the previous patch.

It's only under the latest patch that things get turned around.

With a double ended loco with a _rv.cvf, it's not a problem since there's no real need to have a flipped loco. I'll try a steam loco and see if I get the same thing happening. Then it might make a difference.

Regards,

Bob.