Roane County, Tennessee, USA 19.3.1

Thanks. More vegetation will be added in later versions as I go around and finish-off areas and get the last of the resources scripted up to use. The lag you get may be exacerbated by using full-detail reflection resolution in your mirrors. I have an 8gb Rx 480 I just got last month, and it'll perform worse than my old 2gb Radeon 7850 HD card (oc'ed) if I have the reflections cranked up (vs the 7850 with no reflections). Turn the reflection resolution down to minimum if you can, but do keep it enabled. This map is made to use all the hardware on a top-end gaming computer, but still run with something half as fast, at an acceptable pace. As time goes on and more things get done, expect fps to stay just a bit more steady. Roadwidth is done by eye, so it should be pretty accurate (picture of car infront on said road IRL vs in-game shot side-by-side comparison). Most roadways are 8'~9' (back roads) wide to 11' wide or so (major signed routes & highway) PER LANE, center turn lanes, etc may be just a touch wider @ some spots but not too often. Basically you should be able to drive a truck anywhere but in a downtown with lots of room (the T-series truck JUST fits in downtown Harriman's lanes - JUST).
Often I looked up the national highway and roadway DOT standards to get an idea how to work things (curves, banking, signs, bridges, light placement) when I wasn't using google maps. Lots of reading!
Enjoy, and the future holds much improvement for this map - thanks for your honest review and feedback! --Cheers!

If you use the 'start a conversation' feature and tell me where some of the locations are (obviously if this is personal, that's perfectly OK with me!), I can see to putting some of them in with decent realism with the models and resources I have available. More roads will be added in the future, too. Thanks for the honest review and glad you enjoyed this.

Wow, that's a shocker. I bet you have virtual memory ENABLED (as it should be). The low texture settings most likely are helping you a lot too. So long as you have the 5gb free to load it, it should run, though choppy at times, at 720p. I had one of those about 4 years ago for a few months, with 1gb ddr3 they're not too bad if you keep the detail and resolution turned down and have realistic expectations.
If it doesn't crash your game (in a windowed mode) to open the editor, click LIGHTING on the menubar, choose BASIC LIGHTING, and wait a moment while it re-computes some resources, then exit out of the editor, that may help if the FPS suffers a bit.
While I don't officially support 6gb systems (though the game does), I am glad to hear you can run it, Do enjoy, and restart Beamng,drive if it slows down after a while.
Thanks for taking the time to write in - it will help others! --Cheers!

Thank-you - this was my way of thanking the developers especially, the community too, and showing that "yes, a large map can be made, and can be fun, and detailed, in Beamng.drive". The small maps this game comes with are beautiful but just didn't do it justice size-wise against some of the other games out there. I could have made it a bit bigger yet but I would have not been able to keep it running for the folks with 8gb of RAM and that's a large percentage of the demographic here. --Cheers!

Send me a user-to-user (private) message detailing what you need. The textures (95% of them - including all the road textures) are mine but some of the models are from other users. If you cannot be sure via the credits, please send me a message or ask in the 'discussion' forums. Take pictures of the specific house or sign models (for example) in question, if need be, to help out.

Free camera is fine, sometimes the steam overlay can cause keys to stick in many games, try tapping shift or tab a few times if it happens, or run the game directly from the exe or a shortcut to the exe, not a steamrun url shortcut or steam interface. consider turning down the reflection resolution some if you need to, as it will drastically affect performance. I have a very similar graphics board (rx 480 8gb) and it's just dandy if you turn down reflection res just a bit.
Thanks for the good words... I am no god, but I surely think the Devs may be. Waited (and have been modding) since the mid-90s for a game like this on PC that was so mod-friendly. Embracing modding is the best thing a dev can do.

Thanks, yes it's quite a monster. If you need to get somewhere fast, inside the (F11 Key) map editor, the camera speed field takes numerical input even in 4 digits, so if you put in like 1000~2000 as a number, it'll take it. This gets you across this monster of a map in seconds. Just remember to hit the slider to put it back to normal speed before you go back out or you'll have issues when you need to move the camera slower (for screenshots or just viewing how much you destroyed the car).

Minimum system requirements for proper operation of this map:
8gb of system RAM, virtual memory in Windows enabled
64bit operating system and 64bit game version running
Good video card to handle plentiful trees and high-res textures
SSD recommended but entirely optional
Intel processor recommended but entirely optional
If your PC can still handle all the newest games coming out, you generally can run this game. For most people, if there's any issue, it's system memory. RAM is very cheap - the cheapest most influential upgrade you can get along with an SSD. Consider buying more RAM as video settings can often be turned down to help this run better.

The only person who has more fun than everyone else playing it is the guy who made it - rest assured with confidence it WONT die - not anytime soon anyways. This map is not yet finished, and work continues. Look for updates once every 4~8 weeks, until this map is complete. I have kept in close contact with the developers of this game periodically while making this to make sure nothing is outmoded during the time this map was being made available. Should something unforeseen occur, also know that I am committed to continually improving this map and fixing any compatibility issues that may arise (though they should not).
Thank-you for the compliments & happy Beaming.

4gb of GDDR5 VIDEO memory = high settings
Adjust reflection, shadow detail/distance, and texture detail accordingly if you have less. Reflection (for mirrors) has a very hard hit on FPS, so I don't have it cranked all the way even for a Radeon Rx 480 8gb I just bought. It takes a 980ti/1070 geforce card to get good reflection detail AND good FPS.
Just make sure you have VIRTUAL MEMORY enabled on your system if you don't have a LUDICROUS amount of system RAM.
Otherwise you should be fine.

Thanks. Please make sure your VIRTUAL MEMORY is enabled when running this map. While you should have no issue with 16gb of memory, please consider the fact that this is a pre-release early access game title with a 'beta' map, so memory use might not be 100% optimized yet. I have seen my 16gb-of-RAM PC here I made this one use 90+ % of memory (up to 99%!) while simultaneously using 24gb of VIRTUAL memory on drive c:. Using Virtual memory on a modern (or even semi-modern) SSD will not noticably lower the lifespan of it, despite old rumours (they're more reliable than hard-drives and have wear-leveling protocols built into the drive). So yes, DO use Virtual memory - look up a google tutorial of this on the internet for your version of Windows. 16~20gb of virtual memory should be enough for almost anyone who's not editing maps pulling all-nighters.

The car will vibrate most near the edge of the maps on the north, east, and west side of the map, as the world-center is actually just slightly south of the actual terrain center. The further you go in a torque3d (Beamng's parent engine) game, from the world center of 0,0,0 coordinates, the more the visuals will be 'less precise'. This is not a bug with the map, nor does it affect the car/crash physics, it's merely visual and it's engine-related. This also happens on @Nadeox1's SSRB map, which is about 50 miles (or 50km) of road-length of long, straight highway, as you can notice. Since this is the largest map in Beamng.drive, you're most likely to notice it here first. Rest assured it's on superficial/visual and does not affect gameplay at all. Thanks for the compliments!

Thanks for the compliments. There's a few bugs, that's why this is technically beta 0.5 (but it's the first PUBLIC beta not limited to the forum thread for it that's rather buried). I will work out these bugs in time, mostly console errors (unfinished unused assets that I will tidy up as I use them more or delete if I don't use them), non-dds textures (just a very few left!), non-power-of-2 textures (railroad crossing light), etc. Most of the glitches I know about but they're being worked on. Feel free to put more detail in the matter on the discussion forum attached. -Cheers!

i7 and a 16gb set of ram is what I designed this on. It will run beautiful once everything is loaded up (this may take a few minutes on a hard drive on the first run, less on subsequent runs). It may get temporarily a little choppy the first time you look around and as you drive the first two miles it may do some loading but by then everything should be loaded up. If I drive north from BURGER WORLD spawn everything usually is fine by the time I've merged on the highway. It's a HUGE map.

Who ever thought a few pickups and an equal or greater amount of couches could be so entertaining for so long, right? There will totally be a bunch of couch hauling missions. This will be both fun and a test of patience, but eventually, when the missions are out, there will be not just that but racing, car chase missions, and escape the corrupt informant missions too!