v360 thread

[longiron]

Nathan,
Even though your Acer is running XP, it's really doesn't have a lot of RAM (512 MB) to support what the Update Process in Open Rails is trying to process and the support the rest of your system. That's the bottleneck as you can see the Update thread is waiting (43% wait) - a very long time - yielding the low FPS.

Replacing your 512 MB of RAM (DDR2 800 SDRAM) with 2GB costs about $40. That will make your machine and Open Rails perform like a completely different animal.

[Redcoat_1812]

Does OR support running activities created with Activity Generator & Activity Master ?

cheers,
Mike.

[farrmp]

Yes Mike, yes on both counts. I love Activity Generator and have run several dozen Activities AG generated without any problems!
Even Activities generated by Templates with AI Traffic work well even though OR doesn't yet have signaling implemented.

'Nuff Said

Paul

[Redcoat_1812]

Thank you Paul,

i bought both many years back, but never really used either.

Re-installed MSTS recently to run OR and thought i might have a go at using some of the released templates.

Thank you for the information mate.

cheers,
Mike.

[Redcoat_1812]

Another problem with OR failing to find the contents of the \TEXTURES folder........see end of logfile.

This is in the freeware Surfliner route.

OpenRailsLog.txt

Mike.

[Redcoat_1812]

Can i re-iterate my request for a choice in HUD font colour please.

I find yellow quite dificult to discern against a light background, particularly the sky.

Mike.

[longiron]

Can i re-iterate my request for a choice in HUD font colour please.

I find yellow quite dificult to discern against a light background, particularly the sky.

Mike.

Mike,
we heard you. Next release will have something (not decided yet exactly how it will be implemented) to allow changes to color of HUD
chrisvw

[twpol]

Could we just go with "MSTS Red"? Or will people have problems with that too?

[Redcoat_1812]

Oops.......hehehehehehehe.

You are a star Chris, a prince among men.

EDIT: James, red is good for me.

cheers,
Mike.

[csantucci]

I have some small - I think - requests about human interface:
- addition of the line grade on the F5 display;
- F9 window (train operations) to pop up in the top of display instead of in the middle;
- draggable F9 window slider
- possibility to directly toggle from rain to clear environment and from snow to clear environment; now to toggle from rain to clear you have to pass through snow environment, which often isn't realistic; to avoid involvement of further keys, the toggle to the new environment could be delayed by e.g. 1 second with respect to the keystroke; if in the meantime a new equal keystroke happens, after a second the environment toggles to the final state without passing through the intermediate state;
- track monitor F4 window to appear at the left lower part of the display between F8 and F10 window;
- even better, positions of windows F4, F8, F9, F10 automatically saved when exiting ORTS, so that they have same position next time you reenter it.
Thanks
Carlo

[twpol]

Thanks for the ideas.
- The line grade is probably going in the F4/Track Monitor window, though nothing is set in stone.
- The compass is at the top middle already... though my personal preference for F4/Track Monitor is exactly where you want it (bottom-left, above F10/Next Station).
- Dragging the scrollbar and remembering the window positions are planned.

[sna25]

ORST is about 2-3 times faster than MSTS. But it use only one core:



So when it will use all cores it will be ultra fast. Good work.

But I have a questions about the CABVIEWS. It use MSTS 2D cabs, but I want to ask if you planning to give opportunity to create additional 3D CABVIEWS to compete with games like TRAINZ or Rail Simulator.

And one more question, why the track is shining in the night ??



The Route use X-Track, Y-track, UZK and other advanced track solution for MSTS.

[Redcoat_1812]

Could someone from OR team explain what all the "3's" denote in the dispatcher info, please.

I have read the SoftDocs, but they do not give much detail, as far as i can see.



Mike.

[twpol]

Numbers and letters indicate which train has that section of track reserved (0-9 for the first ten trains, then A-Z). "=" means it is an unreserved section, "/" and "\" are passing places/switches that the dispatcher has a special interest in, "?" is a reversing point and "@" is where that train currently is. I think I got that all right.

[muskokaandtahoe]

ORST is about 2-3 times faster than MSTS. But it use only one core...snip

Open Rails uses multiple threads. Whether the operating system spreads those across to multiple cores is a decision made by the OS, not the application.

And one more question, why the track is shining in the night ??.

Open rails is very much still a work-in-progress and lighting is one topic in need of some additional work. That said, I suspect what you see in the right hand picture is the result of having a track texture in the \night folder. The left hand picture is what OR does at this stage of the development with headlight illumination. Nice and bright but it strikes the track far too near to the locomotive.