New to Sid Meier's Railroads! scenarios?
There are two ways to use custom scenarios for Sid Meier's Railroads!
Either by hand as documented here or using SMRMapShifter.exe as documented here.
The 3GB enabler is an awesome utility that has a magic tendency to fix one of the last remaining outstanding of Sid Meiers Railroads instability. While the process could hardly be much simpler with the script there is one rather nasty reliance; for 32bit versions of windows you need to manually tell windows to allow 3GB enabler to work. Traditionally this was done by use the 3GB switch in boot.ini. Unfortunately Windows Vista and 7 no longer use the boot.ini, but don’t worry users of Vista & 7 32bit, Microsoft didn’t leave you high and dry.
I came across the solution after Sam brought the quandary to my attention. The solution is actually quite simple, go to the start menu and in the search box type ‘cmd’, don’t hit enter. Wait until ‘cmd.exe.’ appears on the menu and then right click and select “run as administrator”. Then run this command:
BCDEDIT.EXE /Set IncreaseUserVa 2900
You can copy and paste that into the command prompt by using the right click menu, keyboard shortcuts CTRL+C and CTRL+V don’t work in the command line. Then restart for the changes to take effect.
Once you have done this and used the 3GB Enabler you should be able to play Sid Meiers Railroads crash free, so have fun and watch what time it is.
Note: Users of 64bit OSes don’t need to do this step and can use the 3GB enabler directly.
Map: Along with the change from 7z to zip I also spent some time adding a ratings system.
The system is a three star plus, one . My reqonmandation for voting style goes like this:
- A vote of 3 stars means a above average quality map
- 2 stars would be an average map
- Below average is 1 star
Rate a map based on how much fun you had on it, on how well the map’s terrain was planned and painted, but beyond everything let your opinion guide you.
I would please ask that you do not rate a map down because of crashes, slow downs, or other major problems. If a map has a bug please leave a comment notifying of such, I will try and determine the problem and fix it, or if I am unable to I will forward it to someone who can.
These ratings should help newcomers as well as long term players in finding fun, new and or simply over looked maps.
So please vote, and do so knowing that you are helping others enjoy the SMR experience.
I have changed the compression used for the maps. Instead of using .7z now everything is compressed in .zip. While I love 7-zip, the best file compression program in existence, the use of .7z and the need for a user to have 7-zip installed acted as a deterrent to new players. So this afternoon I took a few hours and converted everything to zip. These files will be larger than their 7z counterparts but they are still small as far as downloads go.
Because I did some things automated some of the links may lead to non-existent files. If you encounter a 404 page anywhere on this site please leave a comment on the page that it was linked from, I will be sure to fix it right away.
Map: San Francisco CIC
Mapper: Calm Dragon
Make the rails sing around the Bay Area.
A trip around San Francisco Bay sounds like a plan. Simple economy starting with mail from villages.
Twelve industries available to cities. Seventeen products to move between cities.
There are several starting villages and several other villages all with one industry each.
No custom content. Original Map designed by Calm Dragon using USGS DEM data.
This map is for intermediate players.
There are challenging goals that you may work toward.
Have Fun and Happy Railroading!
Fancy late game bridges may crash the game back to your desktop,
though I have worked very hard not to allow that to happen.
