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Time allowed in Demo Mode 26/12/2015 at 12:45 #79231
Lyn-Greenwood
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239 posts 		How many minutes should I expect to get when I run a PayWare Sim in Demo Mode?

I recently tried Leeds City on my laptop and only got 2 minutes, which seems a little on the low side for evaluation purposes.

Anyone able to enlighten me on this one.

Thanks,

Lyn G
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 26/12/2015 at 15:24 #79233
Peter Bennet
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5362 posts 		15 minutes last time I noticed.

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Time allowed in Demo Mode 26/12/2015 at 15:38 #79234
Lyn-Greenwood
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239 posts 		Thanks for the info, Peter. I wonder why I only got 2 minutes. I'll try it again and see how long I get.

Lyn
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 26/12/2015 at 15:48 #79235
Danny252
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1461 posts 		Reports of very short demo times have appeared sporadically ever since the loader came out, and no explanation for it has ever been found as far as I'm aware.
Last edited: 26/12/2015 at 15:49 by Danny252
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 26/12/2015 at 17:47 #79238
Forest Pines
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525 posts 		Yes; I used to get a 15 *second* demo time on my old laptop! When I replaced my computer the problem went away, but buying a new computer purely to fix this issue might be considered overkill...
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 07:44 #79276
Lyn-Greenwood
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239 posts 		" said:
Reports of very short demo times have appeared sporadically ever since the loader came out, and no explanation for it has ever been found as far as I'm aware.
Has the problem been fully investigated? There seems to be no consistency in what happens. I tried Leeds City again on my Laptop (which runs Windows 7) and got 'thrown off' after less than a minute, yet when I tried Victoria Central on the same Laptop, I was still going strong after 10 minutes. However, when I tried Leeds City on my PC (running Windows 8.1), I got nearly 15 minutes!

If PC-Rail can consistently provide very reasonable 'demo times', then surely Simsig, which is far superior, should be able to do the same.

Out of interest, how is the 'demo time' calculated? I would have thought that it should be fairly easy to give a fixed amount of 'sim time' for the demo, but obviously not. Perhaps Geoff can throw some light on this problem.

Very curious indeed.

Lyn
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 10:47 #79279
Stephen Fulcher
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Online 		Lyn, its marked as fixed on the bug tracker a couple of times.

As you have had it occur again, I have raised a new Mantis 14788.
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 15:24 #79286
Lyn-Greenwood
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239 posts 		" said:
Lyn, its marked as fixed on the bug tracker a couple of times.

As you have had it occur again, I have raised a new Mantis 14788.
Thanks, Stephen. It must be an obscure bug if it only shows up on some machines and has (supposedly) been fixed several times.

Do you know what mechanism is used to decide when the demo time has expired? I'm quite curious as to why it seems to get it wrong.

Lyn
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 20:02 #79307
GeoffM
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Lyn, its marked as fixed on the bug tracker a couple of times.

As you have had it occur again, I have raised a new Mantis 14788.
Thanks, Stephen. It must be an obscure bug if it only shows up on some machines and has (supposedly) been fixed several times.
Indeed. As Forest Pines experienced, simply a new computer changed whether it worked or not.

Nobody reported this for a long time so I assumed it worked for everybody... clearly not.
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 20:24 #79308
postal
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5190 posts 		Just a daft thought, but does the speed at which the sim is running affect the demo period?
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Time allowed in Demo Mode 28/12/2015 at 22:15 #79312
Lyn-Greenwood
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239 posts 		" said:
Just a daft thought, but does the speed at which the sim is running affect the demo period?
I suspect not as I was running all the tests at 'normal' speed.

Let's see how the investigation develops.

Lyn
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