Hello all, I've finally retired the old XP machine, and have installed MSTS/OR in the new Windows 10 rig. It has not been smooth, but I am making progress.
A few things I've noticed:
The wide screen view is very welcome...except it seems to be a cropped from 4X3 format, and so offers less view than the old 4X3 view.
Sound is all over the map...it seems nothing is like it was in the old MSTS application. For the most part, that is OK, but, with certain steam locomotives, the sound is a huge mess. Funny thing is....older models seem to have more intact sound (e.g. the original 3DTS engines....ATSF 3751, and the SP cab-forwards and Consuls), whereas later models.......like the SP 4449 are so bad as to be unusable......it's the feedwater pump, or whatever it is called.....that sound overwhelms all other sounds, and seems to go on forever. I'm hoping there is some kind of "fix" for this....in MSTS it was by far my favorite steam locomotive.
Then there is a glitch on the Willamette Pass route, on the "long haul, part 3" activity...starting at Cascade Summit. It directs me to single track with an advance approach signal, and an ultimate cornfield meet. If I'm remembering correctly, the activity is supposed to run with the opposing train properly meeting the player consist. In OR, this occurs. I've been reading about how OR prevents such glitches, but here, it seems to have created this one.
Are there answers to these issues, or is this what to expect with OR? I use the Raildriver, which, in Windows 10, will only run in OR....so using the old MSTS is now OUT.
One thing I love about OR is the smooth operation with the Raildriver, a huge improvement over MSTS ops.
AA
A few things I've noticed:
The wide screen view is very welcome...except it seems to be a cropped from 4X3 format, and so offers less view than the old 4X3 view.
Sound is all over the map...it seems nothing is like it was in the old MSTS application. For the most part, that is OK, but, with certain steam locomotives, the sound is a huge mess. Funny thing is....older models seem to have more intact sound (e.g. the original 3DTS engines....ATSF 3751, and the SP cab-forwards and Consuls), whereas later models.......like the SP 4449 are so bad as to be unusable......it's the feedwater pump, or whatever it is called.....that sound overwhelms all other sounds, and seems to go on forever. I'm hoping there is some kind of "fix" for this....in MSTS it was by far my favorite steam locomotive.
Then there is a glitch on the Willamette Pass route, on the "long haul, part 3" activity...starting at Cascade Summit. It directs me to single track with an advance approach signal, and an ultimate cornfield meet. If I'm remembering correctly, the activity is supposed to run with the opposing train properly meeting the player consist. In OR, this occurs. I've been reading about how OR prevents such glitches, but here, it seems to have created this one.
Are there answers to these issues, or is this what to expect with OR? I use the Raildriver, which, in Windows 10, will only run in OR....so using the old MSTS is now OUT.
One thing I love about OR is the smooth operation with the Raildriver, a huge improvement over MSTS ops.
AA
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