Hamburg - Bremen route on Railsim.de

[schotterman46]

@smarty2
I´m so sorry. I didn`t see your Posting before.
It's fine that my route is now OK.
I´m working on a small Update for missing Bridges and Things
like this. I don´t know why this happened.
@ All
Please excuse my mistakes- I trying to make it better
especially in Stuttgart to Munich for RW this Year.


schotterman

[smarty2]

Hi Ted, no worries, aah, I thought the missing bridges was RW's being funny Look forward to an update to your excellent route, you have done a fantastiche job!

[chrisreb]

Hi Ted, no worries, aah, I thought the missing bridges was RW's being funny Look forward to an update to your excellent route, you have done a fantastiche job!

I second that!

[MFMPorter]

Well I am stumped, been in contact with the author about the performance issue re the track, apparently the track is 2D! So what the heck in his route is killing my p.c? I have put all settings down to low and the scenery detail to 1! Still one frame per 2 seconds? The only constant are the signals, the track and the catenery?

Problem sorted! After consultation with Ted the route author we discovered that although I had Altenburg Wildau 2.0 installed the track.bin file hadn't overwritten and I was still on the 3D tracks (thanks W7)! No wonder All done now, 2D tracks installed and everything is fine. Going to play. how naughty of me, I nearly forgot to thank Ted publicly! Thanks Ted.

Could someone explain to me please (as a non-route builder) what exactly is meant by 2D and 3D track? I have SAD installed along with my Hamburg-Bremen and I'm getting very, very slow frame rates indeed. The first post above suggests that turning the specs down won't necessarily solve this issue.

Thanks
David W.

[smarty2]

You need to have SAD's version 2 of Altenburg to overwrite his frame killing 3D tracks, my initial overwrite failed to replace the original tracks with his 2D version, thanks to W7 overbearing security in the x86 folder, so copy them in manually and test. I took my steam folder out of the program files folder and cut and pasted it into a dedicated "games" folder.

[FoggyMorning]

Could someone explain to me please (as a non-route builder) what exactly is meant by 2D and 3D track?

As it was explained to me a while back, when people say 3D track they really mean full 3D sleepers/ties as seen on the Falmouth and Isle of Wight route tracks, as opposed to the default track types which have a 2D sleeper texture painted onto the track bed. Rails and track bed are 3D on all types of track

[MFMPorter]

Thanks for both of the above replies.

David W.

[MFMPorter]

I took my steam folder out of the program files folder and cut and pasted it into a dedicated "games" folder.

That sounds a bit drastic to me. Wouldn't moving the entire steam folder out of Program Files jeopardize the working of RW as a whole?

David W.

[smarty2]

I took my steam folder out of the program files folder and cut and pasted it into a dedicated "games" folder.

That sounds a bit drastic to me. Wouldn't moving the entire steam folder out of Program Files jeopardize the working of RW as a whole?

David W.

Nope, not at all, it runs well without the restrictions W7 imposes on the program files folder structure. Particularly the copying and pasting of files, as I said even though I had copied sad's route and overwritten it it failed to overwrite the track.bin file and left me with the p.c killing 3d track.

[MFMPorter]

Nope, not at all, it runs well without the restrictions W7 imposes on the program files folder structure. Particularly the copying and pasting of files,

If I copy (as opposed to cut) my Steam folder elsewhere, thus giving me two folders, would any new future DLC content still go to the original folder within Programs?

Thanks
David W.

[smarty2]

Not being technically minded, I would hazard a guess that it would download to the default and not to the new location unless you cut and paste?

[chrisreb]

Not being technically minded, I would hazard a guess that it would download to the default and not to the new location unless you cut and paste?

I think so too - the registry for the initial Steam installation would reference the original location.