Why is my DBR taking so long?

[rwk]

Why is my DBR taking so long? It gets stuck sometimes but then resumes. I had to close the game in task manager when a route took too long to load and that triggered a DBR. It's after midnight eastern US time so maybe I will go to bed soon and let the DBR run overnight and see how it is in the morning. My Win 8.1 computer is really sluggish sometimes. I might install Trainz 19 on my Win 10 computer that I got used on ebay last Oct for under $500 because an amusement park building sequel called Planet Coaster 2 released last November requires DX12, Win 10, and a beefier graphics card. I read that future editions of Trainz might require DX12 as well. Can a sluggish computer make a DBR take longer? Maybe Trainz will run better on my beefier computer.

 

[marky7890]

It depends how how much content you have and what hard drive type you have (HDD or SSD) I have quite a bit of content and an SSD and it takes about 30 seconds.

 

[JCitron]

The SP5 update DBR is very thorough and is validating all of your content. If you have a lot of content, this can take a very long time as Markey says. On the Launcher, click on the Developer menu then click clear client logs, then click on show logs. You'll be able to see the progress of the DBR.

Also, as Markey says, it depends upon the kind of drive SSDs are faster than regular hard drives, and it also depends upon the quality of the regular hard drives. In expensive consumer-grade drives that come with home-PCs can be quite slow, meaning they run at 5400 RPM and have small data caches compared to better quality hard drives that run at 7200 RPM, or sometimes faster if you can find those drives, and have a much larger cache.

I use regular hard drives but these are sever-quality disks running at 7200 RPM with large 64 MB caches, and they also have "intelligent" controllers to do other things to make them run faster. They are still not as fast as an SSD. Given the amount of data, while I would like SSDs, I can't afford the SSD I would need at this time, so I suck it up and live with the hard drives instead.

 

[rwk]

The DBR completed within an hour I believe after it started. I'm using an optical platter internal drive, and maybe it is the slower one, not sure. I noticed though that sometimes my browser will freeze up and will unfreeze, sometimes it doesn't, and my graphics card freezes and then recovers, if I'm playing a video it sometimes freezes then unfreezes after a few seconds. My computer is several years old but I have a newer one that might be a few years old, I bought it used on ebay last October to run games that require Windows 10 and DX 12, it has a beefier RTX card. That PC case is bigger than the other one. I have it under my computer table on a wood board on the floor which is carpet. No room on my computer table to put it on top, I have two monitors on my table and the other computer that I had for several years which is smaller.

 

[ricomon35]

Only one hour? Many of us have run dbr's that run 2-14 hours... or more.

One hour is cake, LOL