Transport Fever officially announced!

[Brightlands100]

Not improved at all.  Low settings and still lagging and jerky.  Originally it was fine on much higher settings.  To be honest, it’s a pretty poor game.  It had great promise but I don’t think it’s ever going to deliver.  I’ve given up playing it.  I only saw your post because I had an e-mail alerting me to it.  With your brand new iMac it should absolutely fly.  Mine is under 2 years old.

[Brightlands100]

Thanks Mikael.  I’m (a) pleased to get a reply and (b) pleased that you have identified the problem.  Good luck with fixing it soon.

[Brightlands100]

I think it is more than video drivers. OSX updates the drivers itself and since Yosemite is brand new then I guess that there’s nothing to update.  I give up until I see some response or update.

[Brightlands100]

This is still a problem.  Just played for less than 5 mins with all graphics settings on low and got the frozen screen followed by the software quitting with the graphics error message to send to Apple.

What puzzles me is how some problems on this ‘Support’ forum get a response and others do not.  Even if a solution is not immediately available, a simple ‘we’re looking into this’ would be appreciated.  But no reply at all makes me very annoyed.

 

[Brightlands100]

Thanks FX2K.  I dropped the settings back to low and at least the game is now playable with no crashes.  It’s not as smooth as it was though and considering the last update was to fix performance issues it’s done no favours to users on the Mac version.  I hope that this can be fixed in a future Mac-specific update.

[Brightlands100]

At least someone replies.  Thank you!

To be honest I haven’t tried lowering my settings as they have been running well up to now.  But it’s a good idea and I will try lowering them.  Thanks again.

 

[Brightlands100]

Still waiting guys….. I’d appreciate a response from support please.  My graphics details are as follows:-

 
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M:

  Chipset Model:NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

  Type:GPU

  Bus:PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width:x16

  VRAM (Total):512 MB

  Vendor:NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID:0x0fd5

  Revision ID:0x00a2

  ROM Revision:3707

  Displays:

iMac:

  Display Type:LCD

  Resolution:1920 x 1080

  Pixel Depth:32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

  Main Display:Yes

  Mirror:Off

  Online:Yes

 
  Built-In:Yes

iMac info

  Model Name:iMac

  Model Identifier:iMac13,1

  Processor Name:Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed:2.9 GHz

  Number of Processors:1

  Total Number of Cores:4

  L2 Cache (per Core):256 KB

  L3 Cache:6 MB

  Memory:8 GB

  Boot ROM Version:IM131.010A.B05

  SMC Version (system):2.9f5

I’ve recently upgraded to Yosemite

[Brightlands100]

Great tips lightrail. I’ll try them out tomorrow. Thanks again.

[Brightlands100]

The above are great tips. Thank you.

When I played my first game I made big mistakes mainly trying to connect my towns and cities. Obviously in the 1850’s travel between places wasn’t popular and no one used my services and I borrowed and borrowed just to stay afloat.  Once I figured that the townsfolk were happy to remain in their home towns I started a new game with much better results.

I simply visited each city in turn and looked at the  distribution of dwellings, industrial, commercial and leisure buildings.  Once I worked out where people wanted to get from and to it was easy to create bus routes accordingly. I then constructed a vehicle depot next to the road in a free spot and then went around my route dropping off bus stops at appropriate distances. I then set up the route linking all the bus stops and finally purchased my vehicles. For most lines I found that 4 vehicles were sufficient. I started with stage coaches and moved on to the steam bus after 15 years. There’s maintenance to pay on the road depots so only build one per city.

This simple start to the game means that in 25 years I’ve gone from the original $3m to $9m just running bus services. All routes are running at a profit and all are now operating the steam buses. It becomes a bit of a chore replacing vehicles at the end of their life but costs go up if you don’t.

I may have missed the obvious but I did cause myself a problem when returning a vehicle to the depot for replacement. When you send it to the depot the Line Number disappears and so I soon learnt to make a note of the Line Number before returning the vehicle to the depot .

With my funds increasing I feel more confident to move on to linking the industries as described so well by lightrail in his post above.

 

 

 

 

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