150 car limit?

[jasonjedi1]

I did several searches and couldnt find anything, but is there plans to remove the long standing 150 car limit on MSTS/OTRS? Or is this impossible. Sorry if this has been asked before.

[captain82]

I didn't know there was a limit. I've made and ran a 200+ NS coal consists on the PRR route.

[jasonjedi1]

Interesting, maybe its a limit that conbuilder imposes.

[superheatedsteam]

The freeware version of Conbuilder I have (v2.3.5) has ~300 vehicle limit. If you want longer trains it is not difficult to manually edit the .con file in a text editor.

I have run 682 ore car trains in MSTS. A train of that length in MSTS drops the FPS to low single digits. OR on the other hand didn't drop below 120FPS.

[conductorchris]

Additionally, I have set up activities using Skyline Computing's activity generator that had 500 or so cars in them, distributed around different sidings.
Christopher

[baldwin]

The payware Conbuilder stops adding cars at 150, at least version 5.3.4 does.

[eric]

200+ car trains with no problems, but I tend to do my .CON files manually...

I thought that MSTS had a soft limit around how many tiles it could load into memory at any given time... e.g. trains exceeding the length of the track on the current tile plus the adjacent tiles was problematic. ORTS doesn't have that issue.

[jasonjedi1]

Thanks for the answers guys. Helped me out a lot. I have the payware conbuilder which is what was creating the limit.

[crstagg]

The payware Conbuilder stops adding cars at 150, at least version 5.3.4 does.

You need to upgrade. Current version is 5.9.2. You are missing a number of bug fixes, removed false errors, and probably some new features.

[jasonjedi1]

You need to upgrade. Current version is 5.9.2. You are missing a number of bug fixes, removed false errors, and probably some new features.

Still has the 150 car limit in it. Im just merging consists together using notepad for now. All good.

[crstagg]

You need to upgrade. Current version is 5.9.2. You are missing a number of bug fixes, removed false errors, and probably some new features.

Still has the 150 car limit in it. Im just merging consists together using notepad for now. All good.

My post was directed toward Baldwin who is 50+ versions behind not that it would fix your problem. Yes that 150 limit is still in effect.

[solarnet]

My post was directed toward Baldwin who is 50+ versions behind not that it would fix your problem. Yes that 150 limit is still in effect.

May I ask why the limit is there? Just curious.

[joebandit]

The limit can be raised, any suggested length? 200 maybe?

[joebandit]

I can raise the limit, but how many should it be? Suggestions?

[baldwin]

Go for 300, should cater for just about everybody, except those very long ore trains in Oz.