Mysteruous Slow Running

[Dan_Hat]

Hey all

For some reason after about a min of rounning my route the game grinds down to a halt, I have no idea why though, its not even using a quater of my ram and no more than 80% of operating speed, the sounds is fine but the graphics practically stop almost to what seems to be 1fps!

my graphics card should be able to handle 06 fine as it will run games like portal 2 ad empire total war with no problems so whats going on?!

 

[BigThing]

Is this only happening on one route?

If so, what starts happening on the route about a min in? Does an asset start working, does a portal activate?

 

[paulzmay]

I got something similar, and creating a new session from scratch seemed to cure the problem.

Paul

 

[Dan_Hat]

I do have two instances of the portal timetable rule running, but its odd how itll slow but my pc isnt straining at all

 

[Deano5]

That's probably because the bottle neck is being caused in another area of the computer. Think of all your hardware as being water pipes, and when you put them all together they make a long pipe 6 inches wide, except for one small piece that is only 3 inches wide. What happens to the water when it hits the thinner pipe?
Look for thin pipe, it must be there somewhere :wave: .

 

[JCitron]

That's probably because the bottle neck is being caused in another area of the computer. Think of all your hardware as being water pipes, and when you put them all together they make a long pipe 6 inches wide, except for one small piece that is only 3 inches wide. What happens to the water when it hits the thinner pipe?
Look for thin pipe, it must be there somewhere :wave: .

That's an excellent analogy, Deano.

I'd hate to come across what that bottleneck is on the other side of the route, though. More than once I've had that happen where every AI driven passenger train decided it was time to return home and clog up the lead to the terminal!

John