Problems with BVE4

[rivituso]

I have been having problems with Boso View Express Version 4, which I
recently downloaded.

I downloaded the Redditch-Birmingham New Street route, in Great Britain, along with a National Rail Class 323 for BVE 4.

I realise that the 323 on BVE 4 is different and that there must be a couple of different procedures before departing, such as acknowledging/testing the AWS, making sure that the pantograph is up as well as acknowledging with two buzzes the guard's departure signal. All of this I did.

However, when I engaged the throttle to P1, nothing happened. The same went for all other power stages. In a word, the train didn't budge.

I initially thought that it was perhaps the day setting, and so I tried running the program in daytime, rather than in the night time mode that I initially had. Still, no luck.

Can anybody please advise on this and what I might do to rectify this
situation? I should probably add that I am running Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 5100.

Personally speaking, I find that BVE 2 was better than BVE 4. The windowed version of the latter is constantly blinking, rather than showing a constant picture.

A couple of other questions, if I may:

Does anybody know from where I can download a Class 323 Train for BVE 2? All the available versions appear to be only for BVE 4.

Are there any good high-speed routes in Europe that anybody might recommend downloading? Assuming, of course, that the Homepage for that route is actually working and that I can find the appropriate rolling stock.

Many thanks in advance for any and all information.

CR

[Simon_G]

RE: Problems with BVE4

In most of the X-City v1.3 routes, the Class 323 starts with its pantograph up, as indicated by the fact that the line volts lamp on the left of the panel is illuminated. All you should *have* to do before starting the train is

- move the reverser from off to forward and back to neutral and acknowledge the TPWS self-test;
- press the spacebar to cancel the Driver's Reminder Appliance;
- wait for the doors to close (the interlock light at the right of the panel illuminates).

You do not need to press the Pantograph Up button (the [2] key), though doing so will not cause any problems.

Once the doors have close, you should be able to release the brakes and apply power. Can you tell me whether the brakes release correctly when you move the controller from EMG to OFF (the right hand needle of the brake gauge on the left of the panel should fall to 0)?

Simon

[rivituso]

RE: Problems with BVE4

That worked, many thanks. I simply needed to press the engineer's reminder appliance. (What does that do, anyway? It's not a deadman feature, is it?)

But I find that the image, while slightly better than BVE 2, is very jumpy. That is, everything is stop and go. At times, it just sits there and waits, while the computer processes everything through. I should also add that the hard drive indicator light on tyhe computer itself goes absolutely solid -- not just flickering.

I find this slightly surprising, considering that I am working with a Dell Inspiron laptop and running Windows XP.

Is there settiing that I should accept when starting up the program?

Any information on how to alleviate this annoyance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

CR

[Simon_G]

RE: Problems with BVE4

Glad that got you going

The Driver's Reminder Appliance was introduced by the former British Railways to help prevent the recurrence of accidents caused by a driver starting away without thinking against a red signal, after receiving the 'ready to start' buzzer from the guard. It is simply a switch which cuts off traction power and must be applied by the driver whenever the train is stopped at a red signal, or when leaving the cab (which is why it's on when you start up BVE - you're imagined to have just entered the cab).

The stuttering and pausing in BVE4 is a problem on all systems and seems to be caused by memory management, probably connected with the use of the .NET framework. I don't know of any way of reducing it

Simon

[OTTODAD]

RE: Problems with BVE4

Hi Chris !

Your hard disk activity light being on all the time while running the route would indicate that your RAM is choked full of programs running in the background, forcing BVE to make use of slower VIRTUAL RAM on the hard drive.

Shut down all programs not required, Internet, Firewalls, Virus Checkers, System Tools and others.

O t t o

[TomBeevers2000]

RE: Problems with BVE4

I have run BVE4 sucesfully on two Inspirons, one with onboard graphics (needless to say rather poor) and the other with a seperate gfx card (I forget the exact make) but it ran fine, though this was a higher end machine.

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