First of all, I love this program. It gives me the ability to create layouts like I used to have in my younger years. I have figured out how to do a lot of things thanks to Google and the help of people here. However, I am still having lockups like I have had since the start. These only occur when I am building, not when I am driving. I have gotten into the habit of saving my work quite often: every few minutes or so. I don't know what is causing them. It wasn't a big thing before because it would only take less than a minute to reload everything. But now, my latest endeavor takes about 8 minutes to load.
I am building a layout that is 9 squares. I start with a blank square and then merge 8 more to it. This is being done in N gauge US model. The lockup can happen anytime, but is quite likely to happen if I leave the computer for 10 minutes or so.
My hardware should be more than sufficient: 8 core 3.6 MHz AMD, 16 gig RAM, AMD RX460 GPU.
Am I trying to go too big? (I ask this about the loading time of the session.) To date, track is laid and buildings now being added. When I drive what I have done already, I have no issues whatsoever with 7 trains running at the same time. Video is nice and smooth. No lockups.
Any help for this newbie will be greatly appreciated.
I should also mention that this is running on Win10. I am a Linux user, so the ONLY thing installed in Win10 (which is thoroughly updated) is Trainz.
I am building a layout that is 9 squares. I start with a blank square and then merge 8 more to it. This is being done in N gauge US model. The lockup can happen anytime, but is quite likely to happen if I leave the computer for 10 minutes or so.
My hardware should be more than sufficient: 8 core 3.6 MHz AMD, 16 gig RAM, AMD RX460 GPU.
Am I trying to go too big? (I ask this about the loading time of the session.) To date, track is laid and buildings now being added. When I drive what I have done already, I have no issues whatsoever with 7 trains running at the same time. Video is nice and smooth. No lockups.
Any help for this newbie will be greatly appreciated.
I should also mention that this is running on Win10. I am a Linux user, so the ONLY thing installed in Win10 (which is thoroughly updated) is Trainz.