Saving Activities

[seagoon]

Is there any way to save more than one Activity, or to select which saved Activbity to resume?

I notice that the saved item is plucked from the default MSTS saves, so is it possible for us to instruct OR which saved game it is to resume?

BK

[longiron]

With v0.7, you can only have one (1) save. Saving another time overwrites the previous save. We are working on this for the next release.

Games saves for Open Rails has nothing to do with MSTS saves. The OR save data can be found in your "username\application data\open rails" folder

[seagoon]

Thanks, Chris.
Interesting that the saved state in OR has no relevance with MSTS saves, because it is the MSTS reference that appears when reloading the save.

BK

[longiron]

Thanks, Chris.
Interesting that the saved state in OR has no relevance with MSTS saves, because it is the MSTS reference that appears when reloading the save.

BK

I'm not sure what you mean, but you will see this in the OR log file. It has nothing to do with MSTS, it's just OR telling you what files it is reading.

Mode = Resume Activity
Activity = "location of your MSTS installation\Activity name" that's being resumed

[seagoon]

Well, that's what I meant - it does refer to MSTS, which is what made me think that it must been saved to MSTS, so if that was the case, why couldn't I call up any MSTS saved game.

Bruce

[longiron]

it must been saved to MSTS, so if that was the case, why couldn't I call up any MSTS saved game.

Bruce

Bruce,
It all comes down to format of the save file. Since OR is a substitute for the train.exe file, the data that OR saves to restore a game is entirely different than what MSTS saves. I believe you will be very pleased with the progress the team has made in the next release in this area.

[baldwin]

A working "save and resume" is the only thing stopping me from moving to OR as the sim of choice. I look forward to the next release.

[seagoon]

..... the data that OR saves to restore a game is entirely different than what MSTS saves. .....

Aaaaah! Okay, I understand. Thank you.

And thanks also for your little teaser regarding the next update.
I look forward to that.

Bruce