Route Size

[Ron_Smith]

I have recently encountered something not experienced in years of using
Trainz - 2004 through to 2009.
The route I am building has been in progress for about 2 years plus and is
now approx 200 baseboards and the CMP says 12.74 Mb.
My PC is far above the required specs and gives no other signs or problems.
The last few days when placing splines (particularly fence or walls) there is a delay in the appearance of the spline for approx. 5 seconds. Today I placed some rolling stock in a siding and a loco and it took between 30 seconds and 1 minute for them to "appear".
This route does not seem to big compared with some other routes.
Driver is fine with no frame rate problem - in fact is surprisingly smooth.
Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Dap]

I have experienced this a time or two. I just power down the computer and reboot. It seems to go away.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Just make sure that you periodicly save your route as a CDP on a RW-DVD hard disk...in case your route disappears, or PC goes Kablooie.

When I am making hours and hours of changes and additions to my route, I save it daily, or at least once a week, just in case.

 

[Ron_Smith]

Rebooting seems to help but the problem returns after a few hours - gremlins !
The backup has become part of every day routine - I too have suffered loss many years ago - I back up to CDP daily and also to an external hard drive.
Thanks for the input.

 

[Dermmy]

Did you place some new piece of content - possibly scripted - shortly before the delay thing started happening??

 

[patchy]

another line of thought
how's your computer running
had a problem a while ago with a burnt out stick of ram

cheers,
patchy

 

[Vern]

There does seem to be an arbitrary (but unknown why) point at which routes suddenly go sluggish.

Typically I have found this occurs when copying and pasting terrain and/or objects. Instead of taking seconds to do the paste operstion it suddenly takes half a minute or more.

12.74Mb for a 200 board route seems a bit low. Roughly how many linear miles is your project? I always reckoned a bare board with no items and textures (or just Transdem textures) is around 200 - 300kb, which increases significantly as you add to it.

 

[cascaderailroad]

My Horseshoe Curve route was showing 599.70 mb at one time (@11,000 baseboards), and takes @ 2 min to save. I hate to break my @5 county DEM, up into @7 separate routes, as someone, someday, might want to be able to drive the entire route from Huntingdon to Johnstown, NantyGlo, Phillipsburg, Bellefonte...etc...etc