I suggest reading about the 3GB Enabler and how to install maps manually or use the SMR Map Shifter.
Just a heads up, the forum has now moved permanently to be hosted under smrsimple. Over the years we’ve outgrown our old home at Hooked Gamers and so Falconer was kind enough to hand off everything to me.
To start everything off we’re having a contest. More specifically the “2010 Screenshot Contest!” head over the the 2010 Sid Meier’s Railroad Screenshot Contest! topic to learn more.
Map: Green Mars
Mapper: Jancsika
The idea of the map came from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy and it is one of the great science fiction books of our times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
Since NASA is planning for new Mars exploration it is still a very timely subject.
There are a lot of new industries. Solar energy, bio-fuels. No oil or coal or polluting industries. We have Mini-Black holes, bottled Sunshine to name a few.
Transportation is all electric.
The ground tolerance was adjusted, so there is no use for for the tunnels (they are expensive), there are no wood or trussed metal bridges.
Sid Meier’s Railroads has a long history of crashing. We’ve had fixes yes, but many of them are buried in ancient forum topics. This article summarizes the various bugs and known fixes. It should relieve nearly all known issues with Sid Meiers Railroad. It is organized into two sections, general fixes for bugs that effect the SMR game engine and ‘Custom map fixes’, for bugs that create defective custom maps. The majority of crashes are caused by ‘General’ bugs since these are defects in the users install of SMR while ‘custom map’ bugs are problems with the map itself.
General Fixes
Install Patch 1.10
Prior to 1.10 SMR was still a very unstable game. Updating SMR to 1.10 is critical. You do not need to install the 1.01 patch before 1.10 since 1.10 contains all the changes 1.01 had. Blame Firaxis for the close version numbers. If you were having problems and SMR was not updated to 1.10, then stop reading this article and update it. The 1.10 patch download.
3GB Enabler
Large maps logically use more RAM, unfortunately by default Railroads.exe only uses 2GB which means it will crash when it tries to use more than this. The 3GB Enabler allows Railroads.exe to use more than 2GB. If your experiencing crashes while playing large maps follow SMR Simple’s guide on installing the 3GB Enabler.
Empty the maps folder
Most maps cannot be installed while another custom map is present. This includes the ‘Holiday scenario’ official custom map. Make sure to clean out other custom maps before installing a new map, use the ‘How to empty “my games/sid meiers railroads”‘ guide.
Custom Map Fixes
Random Crashes due to Events.xml
Any map which uses a customized list of Goods must use an Events.xml which does not contian any events that reference Goods which the map does not contian. Should a random event come up which needs a good the map does not include in goods.xml the game will crash. Because these crashes are random they are the most painful and mysterious to debug.
