Roane County, Tennessee, USA 19.3.1

I can assure you there are *no* mesh roads (except the bridge surfaces).
This map is about speed, so naturally the roads are very forgiving.
This is also why if you slide off a road just a few feet you're often okay.
Currently up to Beamng.drive 0.8.x the map only supports single terrain with collision. The land you drive on to which roads are applied (well decal roads anyways), is the terrain (if you didn't know). When in the future, if we get tiled terrain support (it's been brought up but short of being 'promised') you can and surely will have your wish as I already have higher-res stuff ready to go the second the engine supports it! It won't be but a week or two to implement that (at a few hours a day, less if I sit here all day with my back locked up). So basically what I mentioned about the terrain, it sacrifices those little imperfections for pure mileage; and what it does in that respect as you mentioned, it does well. You will be happy to know that when the side-streets are furnished (with homes, driveways, trees etc) in the next update they will be somewhat less forgiving to speeders (see my discussion thread for progress). My other two maps have (some) less smoothed roadways if you must have them, they're there on the left side of this screen.
Thank-you for writing in with your praise and constructive criticism, it always helps. --Cheers!

2 Hours driving around: Yes, this map's definitely good for that! You could drive 60mph for over two hours and not see all the roads here to be seen and not generally drive the same road twice (aside of using them to get to another roadway). The landscape (for now*) feels like grass where it's not a median strip, but on some median strips, it's grass-textured but not grass traction due to low landscape detail resolution (as a direct result of this maps size). *When we get tiled terrain (an expected feature with the finished-game feature list as per the dev's feature outline), this will be fixed, and this terrain detail 'resolution' will be increased four-fold. I already have terrain stuffs ready to go and have purchased commercial software to handle this. Let's just say this is a side-effect of just how monstrous this map is (it was originally only a concept to test the game-engine). I am picking this back up to put work into the next update, so there will be even more roads to drive, a whole bunch more jumps, and more places will be furnished and looking completed (and a few bugs fixed, like the ones with a few of the spawns).
--Thanks for writing in, Cheers!

Well glad you enjoyed driving around the beautiful state that is Tennessee, where America feels much more like the America we were promised as kids. Stay tuned in the future as more base-game features are added and I can implement them into the map. --Cheers!

Feel free to make some videos, and post screenshots in the discussion forum for this (check the tabs at the top of this page, for discussion), of the AI acting stupid. Sometimes it just does this. It may not work 100% with the lane-split feature (you should leave that off for right now for this map or it could make them 'stuck' in places like off/on ramps, the mountainous portion of the highway, or any other roads specifically narrow like corner-cutting right-turn lanes such as the ones at Pine Ridge Rd and Ruritan Rd intersections). Do post some pics on the discussion forum as stated about the AI not acting proper, please include your user interface in the screenshots with the AI control showing, so I can match these tests here too, and fix the error if it's my fault. --Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed the map!

Turn down or off 'Reflections' for mirrors for a BIG boost in FPS (if it's not already off), and turn down/off shadows, if possible. These both have been reported to give big FPS boosts for many users, especially mid-range VGA cards (GPU's). This is a monster of a map, even for a decent PC. It's strains both the PC and the Beamng.drive game engine (and hence is also a great stability test for your PC hardware!). Feel free to post your config on my discussions forum where (and here also) it's okay to post your PC config and brag (or not) about your PC for the purposes of feedback, so I can get a better handle of the demographic of folk's hardware that choose to play this map :) --Thanks

Danke! I try to not disappoint folks with the massive undertaking that is this map. It doesn't arrive with much fanfare aside of promises to push your PC to the limits trying to do what hasn't quite been done before. If you dream, you can do, with this game. Thanks for the feedback and look for updates in the future to improve the detail and completion of this map.

Thanks, I tried here. I live not too far from where this map is, so I got the chance to go check things out when I wasn't sure. I put extra effort into the highways and as such I am glad it shows. There's currently seven spawn points (most of them spawn you with a car, other times, just spawn a car yourself), there will be more spawn points in the future. As far as swap-files go, be glad you have the free space or a swap file at all, as some people used-to disable theirs thinking it's bad for this or that reason. Physics models are immensely huge and the data set for this map is about as large as is reasonable for this game, currently (until there's tiled terrains in the future). Glad you had fun, and at-least now you surely won't have any buyer's remorse for your computer hardware. Thanks for writing in!

4k resolution, wow, I don't even run that here. I bet it looks beautiful, with all those 4k x 4k and 4k x 2k textures. There's over 1gb of road textures alone, most everything I made by hand custom for this map (and my other maps). The cars 'wiggle' a bit due to how the physics get in the game engine, when you get a certain amount of MILES from the game's origin point (the very center of the map at 0,0,0 which is somewhere a mile or two south ROCKWOOD). So when you get 8~10 miles from the center of the map, a little wiggle turns into the shimmy-shimmy-shake :) Basically looks like you lost some vacuum lines on the car, when you haven't. So yes, entirely, it's not a bug on the map. Thanks for taking the time to check out the map and sending in performance data / feedback. It's much appreciated, and I can make better maps when I know who/what I am making it for. --Cheers!

There will be other Tennessee maps, for sure! I live not very far to this map's location, in Tennessee USA. It's a beautiful state, and would recommend anyone to come see it, if you have even the smallest appreciation for scenic beauty. I will be putting a new version up of this with more progress in due time. If and when tileable terrain is implemented, this will be a truly open-world experience. I already have other terrains pre-made, just waiting on game support, if not they will be individual maps of beautiful curving US route 40. --Cheers!

Thanks. Beamng.drive is such a fun 'just cruising' game, shoe-horned by small in-game maps (that, though nicely detailed, don't do this game justice). The devs had open-world game environment in their mission statement for this game, on the store page in Steam... So I made an open-world for it. Glad you enjoyed it! Don't worry, this isn't my last (or first) map. There will be more, in due time.

It won't be done for a while, but work progresses on it still, though a bit slower than it was before - progress is progress. I am working on aquiring some more building models, and other assets to use in my map to give it more variation (every housing development should NOT look the same!). It may take some time, but it will be worth it in the end. This map was made for just screaming through with a fast car, on a realistic environment. What most would look at as just some boring no-name place was transcribed into the game as a scenic open-world just begging to be both sped through at a high rate of speed on the other-worldly smooth boulevards and highways, and enjoyed at a slower more leisurely pace taking in the scenery. I am glad you enjoyed it. There will be much more to enjoy in the future when it's closer to completion. Thanks for taking the time to write in!

Thanks for the system config post (a place to rave about expensive pc hardware finally!), as it lets me know just who's running this / what they've run it on / vs what I have to make this map on. This map has about, or possibly over 1000 hours of work put into it over 9 months. The map *is* taxing but this was known from the get-go, when I first made this I didn't even think beamng.drive could DO this. However, with some help from the developers working on the game engine (even since the map has been released a few months), performance and lag-spots are considerably less and where they still are, they're less problematic. This map will be updated in the future with some more detail (furnishings, a few missing roads added, game-version fixing if necessary). An open-world style game engine is part of the long-run goal of this game, as-per the developers; but how to test if there's no truly open, open-world. This is about as big as you can make a game-world for it to currently run on 8gb RAM machines. Keep an eye on RAM usage as you run this map and deploy some AI, as it can use 3.5~5gb up pretty much at loading time (can use a few more GB later), especially on maxed graphics. It also easily uses up 3.5gb of video ram (I will keep it under 4gb) with all the custom 2k & 4k textures I made & put in. Thanks for taking the time to write in and list your PC config, as it helps. --Cheers!

Thanks for writing in! It's always nice for some kind words accompanied by some very useful constructive criticism.
Tires popped by railroad crossings is mostly due to the model's collision mesh, especially when hitting the brakes, or nose-diving onto the crossing from another nearby jump or deviation in the road. There's not a lot I can do about this unfortunately at the current moment, but this may get better in due time (especially if I start doing all my own models). Try not to brake or turn hard or skid across these if possible.
Curbs popping tires - yes it happens - sometimes even over the access ramps/driveway aprons (technical term, I used to work in construction), similar to the railroad crossing issue just above, try to refrain from hard driving moves while going over them (hard turning the wheel, or sliding/heavy braking). Right now I cannot do a lot about that but may be able to in the future. These are made with meshes so I can put more of them in a map and have maximum versatility with implementing many of these, without going over the 4096 hard-limit of objects per map.
Uneven fps is caused by being an extremely large, purpose built, over-the-top quantity of map and the objects within in. While I am working on more ways to improve this (occluding rendering behind large view-blocking objects, for example), and as the game progresses, FPS should stay the same or get a little bit better - hopefully not WORSE.
This map was originally just a private large-map / open-world / game-engine-resource-streaming 'proof of concept' project, never meant to be released. As I added more detail, and furnished up some semi-complete map scenes, people started liking what they saw. Eventually, I felt after most of the greater part of the year working on it, it was fit to release. Aside of a touch of lag while streaming world-data in as you drive, or when you first look a certain way after the map loads, it should be pretty fluid aside of the RAM requirement of 8gb being tough for some PC's. Glad to hear you did have some fun with this, and the future of this map - more buildings, jumps, more roads, and some missions, should bring much more fun to everyone.
Thank-you for your review! --Cheers

Do you meet the system ram requirements of 8gb of system RAM?
T-series depends on a strong processor and a half-decent video card (or just appropriate settings). Generally, most people that would have trouble running this are ram-limited. If you only have 4gb of system ram, or possibly 6gb (at this point some folks can run this), then you are likely sure as to what the issue is. If your serious about enjoying 3d gaming at any rate, even if it's just this game, or a modern city simulator, or anything of the like, you should make sure your system has atleast 8~12gb of ram for smooth, reliable frame rates. Ram is cheap, it's not in everyone's budget for sure, but when it is, it is one of the best ways to perk up the PC.
When you have the time and the information handy, tab over to the discussion thread and post your PC's part list (specs) so I can add it to the can run it / can't run it list I've got going (RAM amount, vga, cpu etc).
That being said, this was an 'over-the-top' mod from the get-go. Do enjoy So-Cal Interstate (for folks that cannot run this!) in the mean-time, it's much simpler but still with almost as much fun roads, and almost as much effort put into them.
--Thanks for still writing in. Constructive criticism is always appreciated and will be considered when updating existing, or making new maps.

Thanks! Sometimes bigger IS better :) This map is made for fast cars but also provides quite a number of winding roads with tight corners for plenty of variety. 1000 hours of work have gone into this map thus far (950+ in the uploaded version), and work does continue. I will most likely post another update after I catch my other two maps up in the next few weeks so they work more natively with the most recent game version. *note* This map still functions fine in 0.8 for anyone else reading this. Thanks for taking the time to review & rate this map --Cheers!