activity editor keeps crashing

[rosschris10]

Hi all

Whenever I am trying to create an activity in msts activity editor whenever I zoom in on the track map it keeps crashing. If I place 2/3 locos as consits it crashes

I have heard if I change my colours from 32bit to 16bit this stops this crashing

Is this true or is there an easier way to make activitys without it crashing. It gets really frustating

[BobLatimer]

From memory (which can sometimes be faulty), the 32bit to 16bit change is necessary, depending on what version of MSTS Bin you're running.

I would suggest trying changing your desktop to 16bit colours and see if that helps. I suspect that it will.

Bob.

[casperdog]

Hi,
Reducing what loads in AE helps.
Click the 'view' button and un-tick anything you don't really need to see.
I've found the worst culprits for AE crashing/freezing is signals and (sometimes) sidings/siding names enabled. If you really need to see them, un-tick, zoom to where you want, and the re-tick.
Might help but no gaurantees.
Cheers
Clive

[peterat49]

Hi
As Bob said, change your desktop to 16bit. If you are using Windows 7 don't rely on it changing automatically for you, mine never did.
As Clive said having things like siding names ticked in view can also cause problems.
Thanks.
Peter