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    Corris Route

    Have posted this 3 times in their Facebook and it has disappeared every time.

    I like it, but don't think that many want to spend £ 9.99 on a route with nothing to do but to drive it on its 2 miles single track !


    Web site: www.otto-wipfel.co.uk

    #2
    I see this as the re-marketing of the ng assets from Project Platform, hopefully upgraded and expanded. On my list to buy, but having bought Clear Creek and Wakayama already this month and also want to buy the JT Voyager Advanced, it's going to have to wait a few weeks.
    Vern.

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      #3
      This coming from JT 3.5 miles long. http://justtrains.net/product/malmesbury-branch
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        #4
        Originally posted by Flybyme View Post
        This coming from JT 3.5 miles long. http://justtrains.net/product/malmesbury-branch

        Not too far from where I live! Another short route but could prove a useful source of GWR assets. The Highworth branch (also near Swindon) was a very popular item for MSTS when it was finally released and was around 6 or 7 miles in length. Due to speed limits etc., took around 25 mins to drive end to end.

        Back to Corris, hopefully they beefed up the steam loco performance from Project Platform (if the same assets) as they struggled on anything over 1 in 50/2% gradient.
        Vern.

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          #5
          Payday tomorrow so I bought the route, about to try it. Having had a quick play in the editor these are all new items and not related to the discontinued Project Platform.

          Not sure how far I will get building any routes though as to my dismay, the new in theory more powerful laptop is struggling with the TS2016 editor even with the settings dialed down and running in a window. Very disappointed as I thought an I5 Quad processor with a GTX950 GPU would cope much better than my old I3 with ancient ATI Radeon GPU. But the fan is running at high speed from virtually starting up the thing, its not dust or dirt as the machine is brand new and I've double checked none of the vents are blocked. There's a lot of heat coming out with the air too, so it's not just the BIOS (which only has very simple fan control settings) being over zealous. Wife complaining the screaming fan was disturbing her enjoyment of whatever she was watching on Netflix.

          I don't think it's TS2016 at fault, I'm gathering the impression this HP laptop is very much a case of mutton dressed as lamb (to coin a good old British phrase) so it looks like I'm going to be limited to enjoying the fruits of others' labours in TS2016 on the main PC, in lieu of building anything myself.
          Vern.

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            #6
            Hi Vern !

            In all the 30+ years of having been a professional computer user and programmer, I have never liked Laptops for the very reasons you have now experienced.

            The only times I had to use them, supporting my multi-user Networks software in their many branch sites, I borrowed one of their keybards and monitors, plugging them into my WIN-85 laptop, I still have and is working !
            Web site: www.otto-wipfel.co.uk

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              #7
              Not really a theory, it likely is more powerful. But it's the form factor that does not play well here. Can't really do liquid cooling with a run of the mill lappy. You would need $4000+ USD for that.

              Liquid cooling on a desktop for 1/3rd the price of the same feature on a laptop.
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                #8
                I'm going to dig the cooling pad I bought for the old laptop out the garage and see if that makes a difference.

                Back to the route, first drive does show a few wrinkles - track is a bit rough and the 1 in 18 gradient down into the loco and carriage shed makes it impossible to do one of the scenarios without speeding to take a run at the hill. However overall I like it, once you get going very rural and atmospheric if only for a short distance.
                Vern.

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                  #9
                  Update...

                  Have now run the complete route and it is very short... even with the overall 12 MPH speed limit. A shame they didn't recreate the full extent of the original route even if that would be a mash-up of current day (though the passengers are wearing period clothing), albeit that would have meant including a mile or two of the mainline Cambrian route either side of Machynlleth station.

                  So far as controlling the brake is concerned, on other than the steepest sections I found the loco brake adequate to slow and stop the train, even if not particularly comfortable for the passengers.

                  A minus point must go to the odd passenger behavior, though this possibly a quirk of the host sim. I killed one person stood on the track as I ran into an intermediate station then killed him again as he stepped out in front as I pulled away. A 2ft gauge loco is still a fairly efficient person cutter...
                  Vern.

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                    #10
                    Darwinism always wins.

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