Do I still need?

[ideaman]

Gentlemen. I have just reinstalled MSTS after accidently deleting my editors. My question is do I still need MSTS update, patch 1,8.052113,the sound hack plus the memory hack to run everything on OPEN RAILS only or does OR do away with those things. Thank's for your opinion. Greg

[R. Steele]

Gentlemen. I have just reinstalled MSTS after accidently deleting my editors. My question is do I still need MSTS update, patch 1,8.052113,the sound hack plus the memory hack to run everything on OPEN RAILS only or does OR do away with those things. Thank's for your opinion. Greg

No opinion, just the facts. NO - OR does not use any part of the MSTS exe file and that includes the BIN addition, no sound, camera, or any of the other MSTS hacks are needed to run OR.

You will only need the MSTS exe file to run the editors ( command line parameter >>> C:\1TS\train.exe -toolset -mem:2048 ).

From the manual:
"3.3 Does Open Rails Require You to Have MSTS Installed?
No, it is not required by the Open Rails software itself. However. a great deal of the content accessed by OR includes files originally delivered with MSTS (e.g., tracks or general sounds). These files must be obtained from a properly licensed installation of MSTS.
There are examples where no MSTS content is used (often payware) and in such cases Open Rails does not require MSTS to be installed. .Read here for further detail. <<< refers to manual section 4.5
In all cases, all content files (original or MSTS) must be organized in an MSTS-compatible folder structure. Such a structure is described here. <<< refers to section 4.4 in the manual
In this manual such a folder structure will be called an “MSTS installation” for clarity, even if this wording is not completely correct.
A proof that Open Rails itself does not need an MSTS installation at all to run is e.g. this route" <<< http://www.burrinjuck.coalstonewcast...route-install/

Read section 4 of the manual for a more complete description of the relationship between OR and MSTS

[ideaman]

Thank you for your response. I have been running OR now for a while and I like it very much altho there are things that do not seen to work right, it is away ahead of msts . For some reason msts will not run on my alainware I5 machine but runs great on OR. So when the next full upgrade come out maybe a lot of stuff will be fixed.Thanks for the reply. Greg

[R. Steele]

Thank you for your response. I have been running OR now for a while and I like it very much altho there are things that do not seen to work right, ... Greg

Perhaps you've found some bugs...if so would be good to report; if not maybe myself or others can help if you'd care to post what is not working right.