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  • [ChrisTrains] Stadler Flirt 3 Nederlandse Spoorwegen ; Randstadnet ; Südwest-Express V2.0

    So I took advantage of the sale as well and bought the Flirt 3, my first purchase from ChrisTrains. Excellent model indeed, I would just welcome if the cab windows were clear rather than have that grey tint (I understand this is intentional, I just don't like when models use this); additionally I applied the sound mod from this site which I like more than the original sound.


    However I found one issue with the sound mod, one of the Fahrmotor sounds have a wrong loop which was causing crackling. You can even hear it in the author's video. Although I fixed it I of course cannot publish it as the file is not mine. I may try to contact the sound mod author regarding this.


    By the way for those who'd like to fix it themselves: the affected file is "Fahrmotor v6.wav".

  • [TSG] Konstanz-Villingen

    Yes, I will upgrade, eventually. I'll probably get a new card for my main PC and use my old NVidia in that PC in my second house. Just need some time to pick the right one with good accoustics (I'm sensitive to PC noise - currently my PC is silent enough so that I can hardly tell if it runs or not).


    Anyway, I was so desparate to play yesterday that I needed to resolve it no matter the time spent. ;)


    Yes, there's an issue with some groups of trees, one or two around Engen (some maple trees) and one group between Immendingen and Engen. For the time being I just deleted them, visual impact is minimal and I can play! Very happy bunny! :)


    Of course deleting was not that easy as I was of course getting freezes in the route editor too, so what I had to do was to find the offending assets, delete them from the right directory and only then could I delete the given group of trees. Then of course copy the asset files back.


    Personally I never knew such a thing could happen with any graphics card; I would accept degraded performance, but freezes? It looks weird to have 30 fps (or more as I cap it), everything is smooth and then - crash. If the card does not have enough VRAM I would expect it to place it in standard RAM - it would naturally impact performance substantially, but there should be no freeze. If someone can explain how this happens I'd really appreciate it.

  • [TSG] Konstanz-Villingen

    Hello gents,


    I finally managed to fix the issue yesterday (after several hours playing with it), it is indeed the number of objects (trees in this case) I'll tell you more later when I have more time.

  • [TSG] Konstanz-Villingen

    Hello guys,


    thanks a lot for your replies.


    My system is not a laptop, it's a relatively new, but weaker core i3 4170, 3.7 GHz, just with a very old graphics card - AMD HD 6850, 1GB of GDDR5. The PC has 20 GB of RAM (8+8+2+2).


    I built this PC partially from new components, partially from old that I had (the graphics) to be used in my second house where I spend weekends etc. Because I use it with an old display of a lower resolution you would be suprised how well it performs in TS. I cap my FPS at 30 as it gives you smoother ride and I can get these 30 fps in most of the routes. All that with 1x2 SSAA, AF 2x and all sliders on MAX!! I believe it's mainly due to the CPU - despite being weak overall - having very good single thread performance and the fact my resolution is as low as 1280x1024. I'm running this setup for almost two years now.


    So for instance I'm able to play Mosel route with no issues and get 30 fps on most of it. I almost never had any crash and the ones I had were the usual memory issues with some routes and crash to desktop with a dump file produced. Never had any TS crash where the game would just freeze. What happens in that forest of KoVi is really weird.


    By the way I did try to lower my settings to absolute minimum, plus I even turned off dynamic lighting, nothing changes. The game runs perfectly, but just freezes outside of Immendingen and Engen, always on the very same place.


    It's clear that it's not easy to help and the reason I asked it here was that someone could possibly know what is so special in that section of KoVi, what special objects could be there that might be more resource hungry or use some unusual shadows or something similar. I understand it's not an easy thing to get to the bottom of this and I do not expect anyone to resolve it for me.


    Seems like I will have to go nvidia. I just hope that the graphics is indeed the problem here :(


    EDIT: I already tried logmate yesterday, but it gives no clues I am afraid. It does spit out some errors, but these are the "usual" errors you get with every route. What I did was:


    Started a QD scenario at Immendingen, checked the logmate messages then started moving towards the forest and when it froze I checked the logmate again. There were no new messages that would give you a hint about what went wrong.

  • [TSG] Konstanz-Villingen

    Let me re-post what I wrote at UKTrainsim:
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    I've been playing the KoVi route a lot on my primary computer lately with no issues. Now I stay somewhere else where I have a PC with an older 1GB AMD graphics card (6850). So far it has always been performing acceptably, but now with KoVi I have a weird issue: it always crashes when I get to areas with those deep forests full of coniferous trees. It seems to be just there - happens when I reach Engen on the way from Singen or Immendingen on the way from Villingen, I can even easily replicate it by starting at Immendingen and when I move my free view towards the forests it hangs and I have to manually force TS to shut
    down.
    Could it be the graphics card? Anyone with an AMD card having this issue too? I'm running 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers.
    Or could it be that 1GB memory is too low? When monitoring the memory usage with GPU-Z it never went past 700-800MB...


    I did everything I could, reinstalled the route, verified the installer md5 checksum (compared it to the one I have on the other PC) finally even verified the local steam files, checked if it could not be a memory limit issue (2.3GB limit), all to no avail.


    This must be a graphics card driver issue or something, issue to display something in that forest between Immendingen and Engen. Unfortunatekly I already have the latest catalyst for my ancient card and not sure I want to try the
    beta driver.


    If anybody still has some more ideas what I could try please let me know. Otherwise it looks like a new card purchase will be necessary if I want to play KoVi on this PC.
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    I'm trying to post it here as well as the community here might have more experience with how the route was built (there are even some route authors here I believe - Prelli?) and help me understand what could be in that forest between Immendingen and Engen that makes the TS freeze. It literally freezes, no dump output is produced.


    Thank you very much!

  • [TSG] Konstanz-Villingen

    Zitat von Obstler

    Trotz GTX 550 Ti lässt sich die Strecke also gut darstellen.

    Do I understand it correctly that you have a 550 ti and still can drive the route with reasonable performance? What is your CPU please and what FPS do you usually get?


    (GT: Verstehe ich es richtig, dass man eine 550 ti hat und trotzdem die Strecke mit vernünftiger Leistung fahren kann? Was ist Ihre CPU bitte und was FPS bekommst du normalerweise?)


    Thanks!


    Zitat von Engelbert

    Was die Performance angeht bin ich noch nicht ganz überzeugt.
    Auf meinem System mit der 660GTX läufts relativ ruckelig.
    Kann aber auch an der Tagesform des PCs liegen...


    Gruß

    I have the same card and hesitate to buy the route fearing low performance. Can you tell me what CPU you have and what framerate you're getting in busy and open areas?


    (GT: Ich habe die gleiche Karte und zögere, die Strecke zu kaufen, die eine niedrige Leistung fürchtet. Kannst du mir sagen, welche CPU du hast und was machst du in beschäftigten und offenen Gebieten?)


    Thanks!

  • Berlin - Leipzig

    Zitat von BlackHawk

    You must pay Berlin - Wittenberg directly from Steam to get the discount, not from third reseller like Aerosoft, simuwelt and so on.
    And you can register the Key from Aerosoft in Steam, but is doesn't count for the discount.


    Hi, thanks for the reply. However when I asked whether they provide steam codes I had Berlin-Leipzig in mind.

  • Berlin - Leipzig

    As I asked earlier do you know if Aerosoft provides / will provide steam codes if you buy from them?


    Als ich fragte früher Sie wissen, ob Aerosoft bietet / Dampf-Codes zur Verfügung stellen, wenn Sie von ihnen kaufen?

  • Berlin - Leipzig

    Do you know if you're eligible for the discount if you bought the Berlin-Wittenberg route via Aerosoft and you only registered the route via Steam (not buy directly from Steam)?


    Wissen Sie, ob Sie für den Rabatt berechtigt sind, wenn Sie Berlin-Wittenberg über Aerosoft gekauft und Sie registriert nur die Route über Steam (nicht direkt von Steam zu kaufen)?