MidEast Plus

[Geoffwright]

I have bought & run the MEPlus ver. 1.0 CD & am delighted to be back to this extended version of the groundbreaking Mid East route.
There are an amazing number of good activities & this CD offers fantastic value for money.
However, I seem to have a problem with trackway and roadway across many overpasses & bridges.
Typically, the two rails are suspended in mid-air with no underpinning ballast. Bridges seem in many cases to have no similar underpinning steelwork or roadway.
Is this a problem particular to my installation ? If it is, a reinstallation of the CD has not helped. Or is this a fault requiring possible update ? I don't seem to see any such possible updates anywhere.

[NiallGray]

I have bought & run the MEPlus ver. 1.0 CD & am delighted to be back to this extended version of the groundbreaking Mid East route.
There are an amazing number of good activities & this CD offers fantastic value for money.
However, I seem to have a problem with trackway and roadway across many overpasses & bridges.
Typically, the two rails are suspended in mid-air with no underpinning ballast. Bridges seem in many cases to have no similar underpinning steelwork or roadway.
Is this a problem particular to my installation ? If it is, a reinstallation of the CD has not helped. Or is this a fault requiring possible update ? I don't seem to see any such possible updates anywhere.

Are you able to post a pic or post details of a location so others could check? (I can't personally as haven't got the route.)

Normally if I see rails on a bridge with no ballast on my route, it's because I forgot to tick the box to make it a terrain object, when I placed it.

But then settings could be another reason.

[delticcity]

Geoff this may well be a settings issue. I've not encountered the phenomenon throughout the development and testing of the route myself, nor have I heard mention of it from any other team members. Have you got your sliders up full in your msts settings?

[michaelhendle]

Hi Geoff,
Try turning slider down from best graphics to best prformance,then go to advance and turn off shadows, dynamic shadows,high details shadows,spectacular lighting.

Turn down from 10 to 9 world objects density,make sure there is X in textured sky and X in water,as there is no overhead wiring in the route you can uncheck wires also there are no distant mountains in the area MEP covers so you can uncheck that as well.

I have a lousy mid end lap top and with these settings I don't get any thing missing and fairly good frame rates between 20-40 fps,except round Kings Cross to Hornsey then it's about 10 fps

MEP+ is a very resourse intensive route.

Mike

[Geoffwright]

That was it, Dave. Default settings from CD didn't have everything maxed - have done that & it seems all is well. Car spawner is now working,too. That's a bonus !

[slipperman12]

Hi Geoff,

Default settings from CD didn't have everything maxed

If that was the case, it would happen to everybody!
I suggest that, when you installed MEP, they were the settings of your default MSTS setup. I believe they are duplicated into any Mini-Route you install.

Cheers,
Ged

[Geoffwright]

Yes, that seems logical.
Thanks for your help, chaps.