Two Questions. 1.Sound... 2.LARS

[ColPrice2002]

Hi,

There have been many people reporting sound problems with on-board sound. The problem is that the AC97 implementation depends on the motherboard and the BIOS which determines exactly how the sound system works.
Updated drivers may help - but you have to use the correct ones!
Obviosuly, what works for one person isn't guaranteed for another 9unless you have identical systems).

The "best" cure for sound is to buy a sound card - check your PC specs first(!). The sound quality may improve, but what you're doing is taking away the sound processing from the CPU. That reduces the CPU load (so there is a small improvement in performance), and the sound card process the audio data - so the CPU doesn't try to "time-share" the audio and program instructions).

HTH

Colin

 

[philskene]

Ah, Mike me friend --

"If it displeases you that people use your layouts in a different way, why put them in an open source system."

You be taking my metrosexual and other comments far too seriously. I'm certainly not displeased at all - I'm quite flattered that my work is used as the basis for others to enjoy in their own way.

One of the absolutely superb features of Trainz is the fact that it can be used in so many different ways by so many individuals.

Thems that eat bacon and egg pie and wants to sit back as spectators and use AI to do everything can do so. What I admire in them is the patience (that I do not possess) in actually doing the set-up so that the AI trainz will do all sorts of wonderful things.

I admire the fact that you can go on for so long with sessions. I have the attention span of a goldfish, which is why most of my sessions are usually of no more of three hours duration.

As for open source, I remain a great admirer of Jim Ward. His license for his routes was along the lines "I don't seek any credit, do what you like with this, cut and paste it if you want to, modify as you desire, even sell it if you want to, but if you have bought it be aware that it is free elsewhere."

Phil

 

[AnalogOldguy]

I wanna be a Real Man!

There is none of this sit back and let AI do all the work, which is why my railroads only recruit REAL men - men that don't each quiche and drive pickup trucks, not metrosexual wimps.
Phil

Dear Phil, I wanna be a Real Man, not a methrillsexual or whatever that is! My reward for actually being able to drive my cattle to the Meat Plant, will be one of those Philskene gondola cars (which I failed to download yesterday because it seemed a little too large, like 5MB) (don't worry, I'll get it)

(Folks, I hope there aren't such things as Philskene T-Shirts, or baseball caps):hehe:

And there should be some kind of manhood award for anyone trying to download those darned 120 ft. Turntables! The last three times I tried, the external link lead to a dead end!:'(

Let me ask one more question about sessions... Does a session set up all the industries, or do I still have to do that by hand?

PS I did download the VR VPFX Lite Hopper, and it looks real good. And I will go to that link somebody gave about the LARS. I would like to know some simple stuff, like are all the LARS systems compatible with each other, and also the Auran cars, and so on. Robert P.

 

[mikeaust]

Let me ask one more question about sessions... Does a session set up all the industries, or do I still have to do that by hand?

PS I did download the VR VPFX Lite Hopper, and it looks real good. And I will go to that link somebody gave about the LARS. I would like to know some simple stuff, like are all the LARS systems compatible with each other, and also the Auran cars, and so on. Robert P.

Hi Bob
When you download a session it also gets the rolling stock required to run that session. Also there are maps and instructions in a readme with the files.
Only the industries for the session are setup as you don't need all of them to run it. When you start a session I find it best to use the mini map to look around to get an idea where the rolling stock is, compared to your loco.

cheers
Mike

 

[AnalogOldguy]

In addition ...Thanks to Johnda1237 for steering me to Virtual Railroader. I went and saw one of the very clear basic explanations of the LARS system, which continues me in the right direction!

ColPrice, I am leaning to your type of solution.. Just put in the darned sound card I already own !!! And see what happens. I'm mildly anxious, because I've never disabled onboard sound. I know it can be disabled in the BIOS. But then there's the driver.. It can't be that hard ...

I read about a fellow named Meridious, they say he's made quite a few LARS cars. I'm going to go search right now, and also try to get the turntables one more time! Then there's the Philskene Hopper 86311:999116.

I hope I can get the cows to the darned meat packing plant without rearranging a lot of signals, Mikeaust. Ah, live and learn I say....

Over and out for now! Bob P.

 

[philskene]

Hey Bob --

I didn't know that you were having problems getting the 120ft turntable used in route. I know that it is hosted externally, but I always thought the DLS would take you to it.

Another person had difficulties a while back, so I mounted it on Rapidshare. Just mouse click on this link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/190901516/120ftRoundHouseFullKit.cdp

Phil

 

[AnalogOldguy]

Thanks for the Turntable Link!

Thanks Phil, for that great link to the 120ft turntable. I am now the proud owner, and it's installed (along with the Philskene Hopper) (nice bogies on that one)!!

I have just noticed that on my (more or less) cloned (a while ago) version of the route, the turntable and Armour Meat Plant (added lately) don't show up! So that sort of tells me I'd better have a complete version of the route before making a clone and removing the yellow direction markers,No?!

Thanks to Mikeaust for the info on sessions. He said:

When you download a session it also gets the rolling stock required to run that session. Also there are maps and instructions in a readme with the files.
Only the industries for the session are setup as you don't need all of them to run it. When you start a session I find it best to use the mini map to look around to get an idea where the rolling stock is, compared to your loco.

Bob says - It gets the rolling stock required to run that session??? Meaning it dials out my telephone modem and tries to download 212Mb of rolling stock??? Hmmm, I think I will attempt making my own little sessions !:udrool:

I'm off to my motherboard's site to see how I should install that sound card.... Robert.