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  • No Matter what I change, the game still crashes, also buses are all white and the errors keep popping up.


    Is there anything I can do, I reinstalled the Addon twice now and my last resort would be the whole game but again this hasn't happened before. Is it my game or the addon

  • No Matter what I change, the game still crashes, also buses are all white and the errors keep popping up.


    Is there anything I can do, I reinstalled the Addon twice now and my last resort would be the whole game but again this hasn't happened before. Is it my game or the addon


    Have you tried applying the 4GB patch to your omsi.exe? This is a patch program that can be applied to any 32-bit executable on 64-bit Windows to enable that executable to access 4GB memory instead of 2GB. This should help, and it does make a backup of the original .exe in case you need to undo/revert this patch for any reason. You'd also need to remember to re-patch it when OMSI gets updated.


    http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

  • The two busses are great. However, the 40ft bus is way too underpowered for use on any other map (unless it is flat) Is the bus like this in real life?


    Also the Chicago Downtown map lags and stutters like no other map I have ever been on. I can Spandua at about 20-30fps on PC of 2011 but not Chicago downtown, even the preset setting for Chicago makes it worse.
    It also crashed on me with 124 route and created an insanly massive logfile that I could not post into a spoiler and so had to upload it onto my onedrive.
    Link to LogFile (371MB): http://1drv.ms/1Ki54Jc

  • Most errors in the logfile result from playing some version of Bad Kinzau before you loaded Chicago. The other errors indicate a lack of memory for OMSI. Try applying the 4 GB patch, restart OMSI before switching maps and reduce the AI traffic settings.

  • I would say to make the bike racks animated. I think it's against transit law (or at least in the place I know) to drive with the bike rack lowered and there are no bikes on it. Other than that I have yet to see anything wrong on mine.

  • Unfortunately this is inpossible, otherwise I would have done it. The collision length of the bus exterior must be pre-set, so you would collide with an invisible obstacle at your front when the rack is stowed.

  • Yeah it was Bad Kinzua 3, This is the map I test any bus on to see any faults with it or not. So now I have installed the 4GB patch, there is less stutter now and the fps is more stable (for OMSI) Obviously as soon as I hit the city from the garage on Chicago Downtown it stutters when loading buildings but once loaded it does good. Thanks!


    There is one thing with gearbox of the bus, if I do not come to a complete stop but then suddenly go into full kickdown it jerks back and forth a bit until it changes gear apart from that it is perfect. Good Work

  • The 4 gb patched worked thanks


    one question , when do the bridges raise is there a specific time? I have driven by multiple times and nothing happened


    thanks

  • Unfortunately this is inpossible, otherwise I would have done it. The collision length of the bus exterior must be pre-set, so you would collide with an invisible obstacle at your front when the rack is stowed.


    That is unfortunate. But could it be just that the collision box is when it is stowed? I do not know about anyone else, but I would not mind that. I never play with collisions on anyway. Of course, you will get the comments about the bike rack lowered and it not crashing into things, but personally I would not care. And having it this way would allow bikes on the 40ft bus as well. For me, it just seems weird for the rack to be lowered and not in use. But I understand what you are saying.


    Other than this, the add-on is fantastic! If only you could move to the US for a bit and make more US maps and buses like this... I found this website (http://www.chicagobus.org/buses) and saw that there are other New Flyers that are housed in Kedzie. Also the NovaBus models would not be bad either.

  • Does anyone keep getting this error randomly? I have had it in the first 5 minutes of driving before. I have also had it when driving for 2 or more hours.


    260 09:56:09 - - Error: Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 690F5716 in Modul 'atiumdag.dll'. Lesen von Adresse 0000108F: POI.GHAA - C (vehicles\DBC_Chicago_Citybus\DBC_Citybus_40LF.bus)


    This error happens on any map not just Chicago Downtown and only happens to the 40ft bus. I have even tried a clean install of OMSI 2 with only official Addons (Three Gen, City bus o305 and Chicago Downtown)
    Can someone help me please. The errors are getting very annoying.


    Doesn't matter spent today going adjusting text files until the problem was sorted. (God knows what I changed but it stopped the errors and reduced the lag on Chicago Downtown so I now get about 55-80 fps on Chicago Downtown with little stutter)

  • I really like the 130 it seems longer than the 124 but i've noticed that the map stutters so bad it froze up my PC completely and i've had to hard reset it. Does anyone know why that is, even on the lowest settings. Any other map is fine but I think OMSI generally is the issue, but never the less this is a nice map

  • Hello Darius. I am wondering if it is possible to having the scrolling matrix function work for a hof other than the default Chicago one. I have tried to replicate the Chicago hof, replacing the names with those that I use in my map, but the scrolling function has ceased. When I try using one of my own hofs, the signs shows simply just the first frame of words, however when I try using your hof, the words scroll. I was wondering if you could create a template for us users to have as a reference in order to create our own hofs for the Chicago buses. Thank you in advanced.

  • Darius i've worked it out, it may be just my system is too powerful for OMSI but the reduced multithreading helps, seems to of eliminated the crashing, also I had reverted back to the GPUs original driver which it came with and that has also worked in favour across the board. So it is an OMSI issue using multi threading, on an i7 it seems the threads, OMSI can't keep up with and crashes.


    So It's not my system thank goodness.

  • Hi Darius,


    I have a question. Is it possible to get the coordinates in order to put new wheels for the buses in the Chicago Addon?


    It just says "origin from mesh" rather than giving the coordinates.


    The bus models are great but the wheels do not equal the quality of the rest of the bus.


    I think this is a mod that the community would appreciate.


    Thank you.

  • That defines the wheels' original point. You would have to move the model file in Blender in order to move it. Whatever the coordinates of your new wheels are, enter those same X,Y, and Z coordinates in the .cfg file.