Thames Mersey strange quirks

Atlantic · Post by **Atlantic** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:36 pm

Firstly I would like to say how pleasantly surprised I am with the running of Thames Mersey on my P.C. I have everything stored in Train store except a few activities on this route , I have the sound settings half way and have dropped the display sliders down a notch from my normal settings, I am running a free ram programme in the background. My p.c has only 256 of ram and my processer is only 1600, but all seems to run fairly well, obviously with a few stutters but better than expected.
Congratulations to all involved in the route production, there are few if any , that are better, either free or commercial.
I have noticed a couple of strange things which perplex me although they are not major problems, Firstly if you use the head out view from the crab cab the sim freezes and secondly on steam activities, I cannot restart a saved session, I get a message that the sim cannot find a wag file for a smoking brake van, the smoking vans are equipped with an eng file , there is no wag file, however on replacing the vans with the none smoking sort I can save normally.Does anyone else have this problem or better still the cure.

bigrobski · Post by **bigrobski** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:18 am

I have exactly the same problem with the smoking brake vans. The files look OK - but in the end the only work round I found was to replace the smoking brake vans in all my consists.

Robski

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:00 pm

Hi
This could be an msts thing where it doesn't like stock between engines?
Cheers
jon

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:13 pm

But then you'd find that some multiple units would fail too.

My MU's are set up with just the 'loco' on the fornt car, then just coaches, but you can happily run a 3x4 car set, which will have coaches between locos.

seern1 · Post by **seern1** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:37 pm

Also Maple Leaf Tracks here in North America uses the eng file with a caboose so it smokes. I have never had any problems setting up activities with helper engines behind it.

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:20 pm

Aaahhhh... Saved sessions not reloading?

I think that is to do with the name mismatch between the name of the eng and wag files and the line next to Wagon IOr Engine in the actual file. That little thing that ConBuilder complains about so bitterly, yet doesn't seem to affect MSTS.

I seem to remember hearing that it was this naming convention that stoped saved games from being restored as the name in the Wagon or Engine line is the bit that gets saved for some obscure reason.

Best thing is to check the items in ConBuilder and if you get the name mismatch report, then run the latest RouteRiter and get it to fix all the eng and wag file names (the case-sensitive sorta option).

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:47 pm

Hi
Obviously not the eng problem them....sorry
I just remembered reading somewhere..... that MSTS doesn't like have a Steam loco either end of a train....but I cant remember where I read it.
Dont think it was on this forum

Cheers
Jon

ccsdc · Post by **ccsdc** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:42 pm

I am running quite happily with the smoking brakevans in trains.

Dave