On Resuming Saved Activities, Locomotive Power is Throttled Back Momentarily!!??

[pwillard]

"unrealistic"

You mean "freezing time for an indefinite period" has a basis in reality? ;-P

[pschlik]

Before lashing out at the Open Rails team about a bug, it would help if you weren't on a version of the program that's nearing 2 years old. You can't expect bugs to be fixed without changing the version of the program. I believe this bug was addressed a bit over a year ago, and playing in a testing version would be the way to try that out.

[meeshu]

"unrealistic"

You mean "freezing time for an indefinite period" has a basis in reality? ;-P

Unrealistic in the sense that on resuming activity (regardless of time between saved and resumed activity), the train parameters are now changed (temporarily) from before the activity was saved.

Train parameters should not be changed on resumption of saved activities. That is more realistic.

[meeshu]

Before lashing out at the Open Rails team about a bug, it would help if you weren't on a version of the program that's nearing 2 years old. You can't expect bugs to be fixed without changing the version of the program. I believe this bug was addressed a bit over a year ago, and playing in a testing version would be the way to try that out.

Can you suggest a "test version" to try? Thank you. Note I'm a little reluctant to try test versions as they may be unstable, that's why I prefer stable releases, the last being version 1.5.1 I believe.

[pschlik]

A download button for the current testing version is on this page on the Open Rails website (scroll down).

[niknak]

Personally I haven't experienced this for a long time now - many versions of ORNYMG ago.

[meeshu]

A download button for the current testing version is on this page on the Open Rails website (scroll down).

Thank you for the link.

I've just installed and run test version 1.5.1-1339.

I can confirm that on saving and resuming a test train up the grade (as described previously), the train seems to continue with no apparent reduction in power and speed!

Congratulations on sorting out this power/speed reduction issue on resuming saved activities!! Well done!

But, just as an aside, I note that this test version seems to be a little bit slow/laggy in response when trying to select routes, activities, and when trying to quit Open Rails. It seems to take slightly longer to respond with respect to the stable version 1.5.1. I'm talking about 2 or 3 seconds longer wrt the stable version.

[R. Steele]

Personally I haven't experienced this for a long time now - many versions of ORNYMG ago.

Same here.

[CSRX]

Take a cautious approach though when running test versions. I have noticed activities tend to behave differently on the test versions and unstable versions, than they do the stable version. Not entirely sure why, but I have noticed this on many occasions, so I tend to stick with 1.5.1 when it comes to running activities, even if it is going on 2 years old!