Chiltern Line London - Aylesbury Extension

[almark]

That's the manual which had managed to go missing at the last moment on the addon version. Yes,it really is 56MB.

For those who aren't familiar with LU signals there's a big section in the manual designed to get you up to speed.

[ihavenonamenoreallyidont]

Okay, so I gave in and bought both the Chiltern line and the Aylesbury extension. I bought the version of the extension that requires the Chiltern line already be installed. Problem is, having installed the Chiltern line successfully, I'm getting an error message on trying to install the Aylesbury extension: "unable to confirm a valid purchase of the product in your customer account". The product is definitely recorded in my customer account and I've downloaded it from the link on my account page so I haven't downloaded the wrong version. I don't suppose anyone has a workaround while I wait for JT to return to work, please?

All a bit frustrating when you want to relive your childhood a little on a Friday night

[Trev123]

I think that you purchased the wrong one and should of purchased the complete version. https://www.justtrains.net/product/london-aylesbury which includes the extension as you never had the old version. Either buy this one and sort the other one out with JT on Monday.

[davep]

Trev, The London - Aylesbury route does not include the Chiltern Mainline route to Birmingham.
So if Paul wanted the lot, then he's done the right thing.

[almark]

No it sounds to me like you've done it right. Afraid not much you can do apart from email support as they are the people who deal with the account issues,sorry,not sure why it's doing that.

[ihavenonamenoreallyidont]

Thanks, folks. I'll just have to wait

[ihavenonamenoreallyidont]

Quick update: as a last resort, I emptied the temp folders in local and locallow and whaddya know, it's installed without issue. Curious. But childhood memories here I come

[smarty2]

Defo something eating up resources on the Aylesbury section of the route, as soon as I come off that line onto the CML my framerates jump an extra 20 fps? Reducing the lods in the JT scenery folders has helped with the stutters but not eliminated them, more tweaking required.

[Thugsy]

Only had a chance to drive from Aylesbury to Princes Risborough so far but must say I have been very impressed. An atmospheric little run. Makes me fancy going back to the Steam Era Wycombe Route and having a run on the same stretch for comparison purposes.

[almark]

Martin,genuienly have no idea what's causing your issue,the stutters are evident as a tile loads in,yes,but I and other testers haven't had such issues on the new route,on the CML yes,but not the new section. The livestream Tom Harrison and myself did last night proves this,you can clearly see the FPS drop when he goes towards CML and off the new stuff around 1hr40.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/276310090

A worthwhile point I have made elsewhere (maybe here?) is that if you are looking towards Aylesbury you will find some FPS drop when within a couple of miles,as TS has to cope with loading Aylesbury itself,the start of the line to Amersham and the section towards AVP.

[Thugsy]

I have now run the almost identical service from 1963 on the Wycombe Railway as I did yesterday with the JT Aylesbury extension. Both I have to say are a really nice drive and both are very atmospheric. The Wycombe railway version however had negligible stutter and framerates between 2 and 4 times what I saw on the newer version.

On the downside the Wycombe one did give me a SPAD at the junction signal approaching Risboro' even though I clearly had the road

[shaun123]

Just an update, regarding the performance on the route:

I lowered the scenery density a couple of notches and saw a drastic improvement, and still the route is still very playable, had one or two missing platforms/bridges/lofts, but nothing to ruin the experience.

[davejc64]

I bought the extension version of this route, but one small issue I have is in the Quick Drive selection there is a problem with the Class 121 Bubble car in the Chiltern Railway blue livery in that the consist appears to be empty and before anyone asks I do have the DTG Class 121 pack from steam and the Chiltern livery class 121 is there as I was able to create my own consist for use in Quick Drive.

[tnleeuw01]

I bought the extension version of this route, but one small issue I have is in the Quick Drive selection there is a problem with the Class 121 Bubble car in the Chiltern Railway blue livery in that the consist appears to be empty and before anyone asks I do have the DTG Class 121 pack from steam and the Chiltern livery class 121 is there as I was able to create my own consist for use in Quick Drive.

Please do file an issue with JT support for this, if you haven't already

Thanks!

--Tim

[749006]

I lowered the scenery density ........... had one or two missing platforms/bridges/lofts, but nothing to ruin the experience.

Sorry but missing Platforms or Bridges would spoil in experience - for me at least.

Peter