Activity Creation Problem

[Kevin99]

I have been creating an activity for the Thames Mersey route using LMS Steam models. Everything seemed to be OK however I noticed that the steam/smoke display had gone AWOL from all trains on the system. I have tested the locos (some ) on a new activity all is OK other steam activities on other routes are also OK.

I cannot see anything wrong generaly and do not have a clue as to where to look.

Can anyone advise in any way?


Many Thanks
Kevin

[alanch]

I think others have noticed this - intermittent or no smoke - and it appears to be if your computer is running out of resources, especially if you have placed lots of loose consists and AI. I seem to remember a post about this a few weeks back, and I've seen it myself on Cambrian 2, even though I'm running through Trainstore with the last but one Bin patch, plenty of memory and a fast hard disk.

[Lad491]

If it is a resource issue, make sure you have your quantity of sounds set to medium as they grab a lot of memory

[Kevin99]

Thanks for your help regards the loss of smoke in my activity . It is indeed a problem with the number of AI Trains used I have reduced the number used and all is back to normal. Its a pity we are limited perhaps the new sims will not have this problem.


Thanks again

Kevin99

[WesternInvader]

I've noticed this while testing some of my activities - occasionally one or two AI steam services would produce no smoke when moving. It seems rather random though, as when I re-ran the activity, the smoke returned!