Post by Tom Goodrick on Apr 19, 2011 7:00:36 GMT -5
This is a very negative thread concerning Trainz 2006. I wanted to make a layout that would be very simple to operate. I am having trouble remembering all the controls and procedures needed to operate some of my fancy layouts. I setup a lake about 25 miles long and made a track loop around it. The lake is tucked into a valley surrounded by mountains some place in Canada. I used Canadian rolling stock. You can choose to run any of four passenger trains and one freight train around the lake from a station on one end to another 25 miles away and then continuing on around the other side of the lake to return for a total trip of about 50 miles.
Simple, right? Not really. At first I used a steam loco on one of the trains. The track was checked before the topography was put in. It worked fine. After building the lake, the steam loco would go 1/4 of the way and then the system would crash going to all black and off with no error codes. I tried a diesel loco and it went all the way around the lake. I finished the lake and the surrounding mountains. Now the diesel makes it from one end to the other but then the crash occurs as it starts back around the other side.
The crash is not anything related to train operation. It stays on the track. The train is moving along and suddenly the computer turns itself off. I can't turn the computer off as suddenly and as thoroughly as this crash.
I went back to the MAGLEV system and ran four 60-car freight trains simultaneously with no problem on a layout that I think is a lot longer. This ran for over an hour. I had removed three other large layouts that I thought were fighting for memory space.
It's a shame because the scenery is great and the Canadian trains look very nice.
Now here is the strange part. Crooked Lake is a smaller layout than Maglev Test. Crooked Lake has 158 units. Maglev Test has 272 units. When I run four 60-car trains, two of those are on a 182-unit route (each way) and two are on a 90 unit route (each way). The Maglev Test includes about 70 units of river with bluffs. That's about the same water area as the lake in Crooked Lake.
So if any layout would have problems, I'd expect it to be Maglev Test. I should mention that On Maglev Test, I run the four freight trains on automatic while I operate a 5th train. The freights are on ordinary rails at 55 mph while the Maglev goes by on elevated rails at 300 mph. There are no problems.
Simple, right? Not really. At first I used a steam loco on one of the trains. The track was checked before the topography was put in. It worked fine. After building the lake, the steam loco would go 1/4 of the way and then the system would crash going to all black and off with no error codes. I tried a diesel loco and it went all the way around the lake. I finished the lake and the surrounding mountains. Now the diesel makes it from one end to the other but then the crash occurs as it starts back around the other side.
The crash is not anything related to train operation. It stays on the track. The train is moving along and suddenly the computer turns itself off. I can't turn the computer off as suddenly and as thoroughly as this crash.
I went back to the MAGLEV system and ran four 60-car freight trains simultaneously with no problem on a layout that I think is a lot longer. This ran for over an hour. I had removed three other large layouts that I thought were fighting for memory space.
It's a shame because the scenery is great and the Canadian trains look very nice.
Now here is the strange part. Crooked Lake is a smaller layout than Maglev Test. Crooked Lake has 158 units. Maglev Test has 272 units. When I run four 60-car trains, two of those are on a 182-unit route (each way) and two are on a 90 unit route (each way). The Maglev Test includes about 70 units of river with bluffs. That's about the same water area as the lake in Crooked Lake.
So if any layout would have problems, I'd expect it to be Maglev Test. I should mention that On Maglev Test, I run the four freight trains on automatic while I operate a 5th train. The freights are on ordinary rails at 55 mph while the Maglev goes by on elevated rails at 300 mph. There are no problems.