BVE4 Availability

[CBF]

Hi All; My first post to this forum.

Is BVE4 Beta still available for download? I did a search and tried the links, but they either wont work for me, or I am not understanding what is required.

Any help would be most appreciated!

Cheers; Chuck F.

[call2]

RE: BVE4 Availability

Hi Chuck, welcome to the forum.

BVE4 is available from http://chiba.cool.ne.jp/mackoy/ It's the blue link on the right hand picture. This takes you to another page and it's the first blue link that you come to on that page. You will need .Net framework v1.1 and BVE 4.0.1670.4801. Once you have those installed you can choose your routes from various sources, a lot of which you will find the links for in this forum.

If you have Windows 95 or ME, forget it...I don't think that BVE4 will run on either. I don't know about '98, but XP is great.

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[PCrail]

RE: BVE4 Availability

well it cartainly ran on my ME well, so yes it should

[CBF]

RE: BVE4 Availability



Hi Tony; It took a number of tries to figure out what you were getting at, but I finally got the .net framework and BVE4.

However, with BVE4 installed, when I click on the BVE Icon, the program loads as far as the pale blue screen with the bve logo, but loads no farther. Any suggestions?

Thanks, and Cheers; Chuck F.

[call2]

RE: BVE4 Availability

When you get to the light blue BVE screen right click the mouse. The box that pops up should then be navigated to where your route file are held. Now select any route file. BVE4 incidentally likes .csv routes. The older .rw or .b3d will not work.

It seems as though I was wrong about ME then.

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[BVECOLORADO]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98

I have BVE2.6.3 & BVE4.0.1 running on an older PC 400mhz Win98 PC that I use for my kids games; other than the frame rate being slow at 5 FPS, no problems.

[CBF]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98


Hi; I'm still having problems.

With Bham_X-City_South in my route folder, and cl323 in the Train folder, I get an error - train.dat. What mare do I need?

Also, are there English instructions avilable? The problems I am encountering do not seem to be in the FAQ section.

Cheers; Chuck F.

[call2]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98

If you have downloaded Xcity line you might need to use the earlier v2 class 323 from http://www.bvetrains.co.uk/ The newer cl323 v3.0.16.09 is for BVE4 routes and features a plug-in that uses commands that are not in Xcity.

A good all round BVE info site is http://alfredbarten.com/BVE_works.html

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[CBF]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98


Hi Tony; Thanks for your reply. However, I'm not sure I understand your solution. I'm trying to set up BVE4Beta, and I have XCity V1.2 installed. The only other version of cl323 is V2 at BVE UK Train Collection. I did not find a V3 at the link you posted.

Cheers; Chuck F.

[CBF]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98


Hi Tony; Since my last post, I now have BVE4Beta running. I found that the problem was that I did not have all the required files installed.

I read the links you posted, but I don't see anything about keyboard commands for train control. What have I missed?

Cheers; Chuck F.

[call2]

RE: BVE4 Running On Win98

This is going to be a bit lengthy and complicated but stick with it!

What is happening to BVE at present is that there is a new version (BVE4) that has loads of new features. Full screen being the most noticeable. It will run a lot of BVE2 traction, and also some routes that were written for BVE2. Most will work but you may have errors of some kind or other.

BVE4 has very few routes written specifically for it because its still in a beta stage. The routes will state if they are written for BVE4 and they will have new commands in them that may prevent them from working under BVE2. Likewise the traction. The new BVE4 version of class 323 v3.0.16.09 is at http://www.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ and was made to show off the new features of BVE4 so it may not work under BVE2, or on a route that was written for BVE2.

The BVE2 version v2 class 323 is from http://www.bvetrains.co.uk/ where you can find links to lots of other resources for BVE. Most of these links are pre BVE4 so relate to BVE 2.xxx. If running a BVE2 route under BVE4 it's best to keep to traction that was written for BVE2.

I hope that you can understand that at present there are a lot of incompatibilities between different versions of traction and routes, but unless anything states that it is BVE4 compatible then you might have problems running it under BVE4.



If you go to http://www.trainsimcentral.co.uk/ and navigate to the help screen you will find a standard set of keyboard controls. With BVE4 you can change them to suit yourself by right clicking on the blue BVE screen when you start it up, and navigate to options.

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[BVECOLORADO]

RE: BVE4 KeyBoard Controls

See Luigi's website for more on installation & keyboard controls:

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://bve.altervista.org/4beta_install.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%252BBVE%2B%252B%2522luigi%2Bcartello%2522%2B%252Bitaly%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

[CBF]

RE: BVE4 KeyBoard Controls


Hi All; Thanks for the help. I did get BVE4Beta running with the cl323. I found the links that were posted here, and got the required info. As was mentioned, this is still a "work in progress", but thought that maybe there was more that I was missing.

I'm now running the BVE, and cannot get it to go full screen; I take it that this is normal.

Again, thanks for the help, and this will be my final post to this topic.

Cheers; Chuck F.