Are there rules in installing OpenBVE?

[railfan101]

Hello OpenBVE users.

You might know me from the railworks and MSTS forums lingering about. I have been interested in OpenBVE for a long time but i haven't been able to get it installed on my system correctly. I wanted to ask if there are any rules in regards to properly installing OpenBVE?

Sorry if this is incomplete info, i'm typing this in a hurry since i'm late for work. If you need more info, I'll provide it tonight when i get home.

[HijauKuda]

Sir railfan101

Yes, you must follow the tedious rules to install openBVE.
They depend on the operating system that possesses your PC.
The Windows works better for openBVE, as all addons do not fully work on the linux or the mac.

I do find information for openBVE install on this webpage site

http://obts.wikia.com/wiki/OBTS_Wiki...r_Windows7.7C8

Good day and night for you
HK

[trainutz]

Sir railfan101

Yes, you must follow the tedious rules to install openBVE.
They depend on the operating system that possesses your PC.
The Windows works better for openBVE, as all addons do not fully work on the linux or the mac.

I do find information for openBVE install on this webpage site

http://obts.wikia.com/wiki/OBTS_Wiki...r_Windows7.7C8

Good day and night for you
HK

I respectfully disagree with you. I had a system with an ATI card running Windows 7 and it was fraught with issues. I found that under Mint 16 the video drivers worked with far less issues and that many of the prerequisites necessary to installation on Windows were not necessary under Linux. There obviously has not been very much testing done with a wide variety of video and sound cards and YMMV of course. But I can say from firsthand experience, I was able to run the stock UK routes with Mint 16 without much tweaking and with few issues. My suggestion is that if you have a video card that BVE doesn't like is to install Mint or Ubuntu into a separate partition or drive and run BVE from there. WUBI might have been an alternative but I don't believe it is supported any longer. I would expect to jump through a lot of hoops to run MSTS but not BVE. The developers of BVE have a long way to go before it is usable to a neophyte. Very disappointed because the old BVE under XP was far less fraught with problems.

[HijauKuda]

Sir Trainutz
I do not have the experience with Linux and the Mint operating systems, so you must be the correct expert.
I do know some train addons do not work under the Linux as they possess the old ATS dll file that is good only with Windows.

Good day and night for you.
HK