Roane County, Tennessee, USA 19.3.1

As dumb as the simple pleasures of life may sound to others, I know this all too well. Why else do you think I've made a whole county?
Hey, I drive around with a truck full of 1.5 dozen pianos and see just how long it takes to break them all without killing the truck before the pianos. To do such, easily, press j to pause physics and while in windowed mode of gameplay (not fullscreen) go and hit f11 and wait a while.
You can position them better with the f1 object editor (move command, the 2 key brings that up, all of this inside the f11 map editor).
The map editor takes a while to load but once it's up hit f1 and 2 to get the modes up, go free-cam with SHIFT+C and also, shift-dragging things (hold shift when you start then let go, will dupe the object) can be useful.
When everything is all said and done don't save the map, just go and hit f11 to go back out of the editor, and unpause physics and wait. You should be good to drive about. So don't feel too bad about enjoying the simpler things like you've mentioned for one second, we all do it.
--Cheers and happy piano crashing!

Can't do anything to help the biggest map in Beamng.drive mod repository run any better than it is without having 5-star modeling skills, which I do not. I don't even have one-star modeling skills. I edit my models from a text editor. I will have better stuff when and if the editor update we got today with the game update has the shape editor fixed up yet. If it does i'll possibly be able to help with things a bit but don't expect miracles, especially after downloading a 144 sq/mi terrain that's had 2500+ hours of detailing and work put into it. It's GOING to lag a little. Tech will catch up eventually and years from now this will be a worry of the past.
I've done what I could. Eventually when cpu performance and gpu performance is double what it is now, the map shouldn't be as much of an issue. There is one slow spot in Harriman by the jumps/train tracks behind O'Rlly auto parts I intend to increase speed in though. The visibility blockers (occluders) don't seem to do much good for me unfortunately in the FPS department, they don't seem to occlude enough (maybe this is better now). Future map versions shouldn't lag any worse in most spots.
Oh, and unless you want to only see 500 feet in-front of you in dense fog, I can't help the FPS really by reducing draw distance, which would help you be hopelessly lost for eternity. This isn't the N64 so I don't want to do that.
--Cheers

Well glad you enjoyed being immersed in Roane County TN USA a while. It was fun most of the time to make (of course some of mapping is arduous as all heck and quite monotonous, but we'll cast that part back into the corner for now). Unfortunately as of this version that time total is now well over 2500 hours and I've more than lost count since then.
Thank-you for also knowing enough about your computer to set your settings correctly and NOT complaining about lag, it's a breath of fresh air to me. Once one of the kids around here complains about lag they all jump on the 'waaaah it's the biggest free (earth-based) map ever but it lags' bandwagon.
This was originally a large-map/open-world test for the game engine and was never intended to get as far along as it did. It only did get this far by user demand. When this came out for 0.6.x~0.8.x game versions it used to lag a whole lot more and have boundless amounts of hitching especially when driving fast. Though, that being said, while it runs well now, on a mid-to-high-end machine, it surely will find a bottleneck in the PC it's running on if there is one to be found.
I think this would have made a better benchmark than a map for a driving game, but ah well. It's all water under the (many) bridge(s) now.
-- Thanks for writing in!
P.S. Next update progress for this map will begin after the next game-update at (tentatively) the end of this month.

Yes, it does lag when compared to other much smaller maps 1/100th it's size, glad your enjoying it despite this.
Turn off reflections, and turn off shadows see if either of those help.
If those help you might be able to enjoy the map better. There isn't much I can do, it's an absolutely huge map and there's not much getting around that. You definitely need a gaming-oriented desktop for this one, most all except the most decked-out recent gaming laptops will have issues with it.
My 3+ year old i7 I built in 2014 (with merely an Rx 480 8g I added last year) runs this 30~100fps depending on where you are in the map. There is one trouble-spot in Harriman though near the railroad track just west of the main route that goes down a bit below that for a reason I have no clue about. Still looking into that part. I have done my best to put in occluders (render-blockers) around the towns in various spots though to help with the FPS, but they don't do very much at all for me here.... <1fps difference.
I even text-edited the grass models so they'd appear more detailed a little later upon driving up to them, so they'd keep their 2d form longer, for better FPS (which helped about 10% with fps).
Maybe we'll wait for some newer versions of the base-game and see if that helps any because I don't have too many more strings to pull here!
--Thanks for writing in!

This will have periodic updates (usually once per or every other month) that hopefully will take less time then completing the game this mod is made for. I can't make any promises for certain, or give a time frame.
I am looking into optimizing and re-releasing So-Cal Interstate with double the last version's FPS, and seeing what else needs to be done to make it more engrossing.
I also have a city map planned, it's started (basically building a proof of concept), nothing really to show for it yet though. Much models already donated or created for that - still need a bunch of modular highway pieces and curbs and such, and countless tall buildings yet.
So if you or anyone has anything as far as building or city object models to throw towards a map, please do let me know!
Glad you liked the map thus far. More progress will be made on Roane County as I get more time and get the FPS under control in spots.
--Cheers!

I am looking into the lighting bit, but I hold no promises. It's only on bridges and at the Pine Ridge Road exit for US 40 for now. Regardless of outcome, it won't be until much later the lighting gets touched/changed.
Yes it's dark as all get-out, it's a rural area, this is how they are. The towns do need some more lights though.
Thanks for the good words and glad you enjoyed the map.

I'd say I am around half-way done on the towns. I am trying to optimize more before going much further with them so I don't make the FPS (much) worse.
85% to 90% of the roads that are supposed to be in, are in already.
The airport is in. It even has a few buildings now, too.
The highway is in and mostly done (US 40, gets a little bland on the west end especially past Westel road - the last exit, but it's smooth!).
A majority of the back-end work like creating textures for signs, roads, buildings, and 'stuff like that', is done already - because it had to be.
So, over-all, I'd say the map is 65~75% done, as much as it could be for right now. When tiled terrain support comes, it will enable me to upgrade the map much much more!
Pagefile may slow a machine down, especially with a hard drive, but if you only have one drive, and 8~16gb of ram, slow loading/hitching is better than a game-ending crash-to-desktop (CTD!) any day of the week.
Yes, putting page-file on drive d: or whatever secondary drive you have, IF you have one, is better, unless that drive is more than 3~5 years old (and hence, much slower). Buy SSD's my friends, that is all I can say, even cheap bottom-of-the-barrel ones are better than consumer-level hard drives. Just... back up your data regularly, regardless of the route you take, as it's smart computing, to do so.
Thanks for writing in & do enjoy the map!

Thanks, am trying, it's a LOT of work, a whole lot. It took an entire month of working just to bring the Kingston update. It is really nice though when everything starts coming together and making the scene whole - but it sure takes long enough to get there.

--Thanks for writing in as always, it means something!

I do my best to make it not only look nice but play well and have lots of fun in it too. There's always some nook or cranny of the map you haven't explored yet. Exploration = fun, and sometimes 'just driving' without any specific destination just completely fits the bill, too. To that end, this map is where you want to be.
There's several hidden jumps in and around Kingston, so make sure you've found them all (hint: often they're at or near the far end of something).
--Cheers!

To you and to anyone else who gets the game without paying - please purchase this game - the developers are awesome and you can actually get a hold of the moderators/developers and speak with them. They are truly awesome folks who I have had the pleasure of having many conversations with. If it wasn't for their help - in addition to making the game - this map wouldn't be here (yes, they actually changed some coding in the game exe when an update on 0.9 broke the map). So entirely, with the cheap price, this game is made by a small private group of developers, they totally deserve the money.
They deserve to eat, and pay the bills, you know. They're really awesome people if you ever need to speak with them.
This map is proudly made on a computer with 0% pirated software/files on it.

Turn your settings down, you rate mid-grade on a map I can drive through on high texture detail with minimum reflections and all shadows on, at no less than 30.6 fps in one spot, the rest being higher. I only have an Rx 480 8gb card. Considering this was over 2500 hours of work, to bring a larger map than dozens of others combined, it runs pretty well. Maybe you should take some time to properly configure your graphics settings, or work a mere few hours (or more) to upgrade your system.
The you won't be the only person in the room rating it 3 star, out of 100+ people. This game is not yet final version, nor is this map is not yet final.
The system requirements are clearly stated, if it runs poorly turn down your gfx settings, or bring what is required, don't complain about others.
My 3 year old + PC with a more recent graphics board runs it just fine.
If you want high FPS consider buying an AAA game but that'll cost you money, where this was given free.

Sir your comment is 100% on the money. That's exactly what this map is intended for. To provide a somewhat-scenic realistic driving experience. 175 miles of REAL Tennessee roadway is at your fingertips here in this map. Miles upon miles upon miles of roads from super-open straight-away types to windy mountain switchbacks to American Interstate US 40 that goes from Kingston in the east all the way to a mile or two west of the Westel exit. There's much more to this map then first meets the eye but eventually you'll find what's hiding out there when you 'just drive'
--Thanks for writing in and enjoy the update.

Thanks for the kind words on the map.
Pirated Windows may not correctly function, or may have been modified in ways that may negatively affect performance or system security before it's distributed.
Pirated Beamng software likely will not be up to date which could be bad considering that new features are constantly being introduced, which would cause erronious bug reports for bugs that wouldn't normally exist on proper up-to-date software. So to keep things easier for everyone, I don't support the map running on non-genuine software (Besides, this 'game' is very inexpensive, and Windows genuine copies can be had for as little as 50~60$ US Dollar price if you know where to look, and about 90~100$ US Dollar price even if you don't).
Happy Cruising!

Heehee thanks. I have an update for this that *should* go live before/after the weekend that adds detail and kills off grass-shadow (to help FPS).
Turn off shadows (your pc is 1.8ghz, this will help cpu with FPS)
Turn OFF reflections completely, period (if they aren't already off).
Try low detail if you're on medium, or if you hate low, run medium at whatever-by-720p (1366x720p is common). See how you fare.
Some mid-range 7xx series cards will have trouble with the sheer amount of detail, so lowering the resolution a bit will help the gpu lots.

--Thanks for writing in and posting system specs, it helps me know the demographic that run this map & it helps others (players, and mappers) know what hardware is common.

Turn off shadows if possible, to help CPU speed increase. Make sure to get next week's update, as it'll be about 20% faster in the city areas and have a whole lot more homes (I've worked about a month straight on it, every day, almost the entire day, 6 days a week).
Trying to do the best I can here for everyone, though I will be honest, it certainly takes a decent/recent PC to run it - but that is par-for-the-course on a pre-release game that's not even on BETA stages yet.
Do enjoy and look for the 2nd Kingston Update being posted next week (or this weekend).
--Thanks for writing in and I can assure you progress will continue.

Thanks, turn down your reflections as it will help, there's A LOT more detail (exponentially more) then in most maps - not so much the quality, it just goes on for blocks, and blocks, and blocks, and blocks!
So if you put reflections on minimum you should be fine.
You shouldn't have to turn down or off the shadows with your Ryzen CPU.
You'll be pleased to know that I've brought the FPS up in towns (Rockwood and Kingston) up by up to 25% or such, compared to the current version, averaging 20% on the money in the most-dense parts of town.

Yes, this map is 144 square miles, and it's not 100% optimized yet. It's still an in-progress thing, but in a week, or there-about, things will be a little smoother!

You can use the 10kb patch if you know how to modify the zip-file on the last page of the discussion forums. Look for the 2nd or 3rd last post by me (today, 10/30/2017) and find the groundcover.zip.
This patch when extracted and applied to the proper directory in the zip file will bring FPS up considerably by disabling the grass shadow (it's not needed on simple grass!), and by making the two most-commonly used 3d grass bits go 2d a little sooner as you drive away from them. This wasn't an issue before but as more detail was packed in, to a realistic level, it became an issue of juggling SO much data by the CPU, and it just gets a little in over it's head. I am getting 36FPS in the slowest spots now with a Radeon Rx 480 8gb, 1288mhz core clock, a 4790k 4.4ghz, and 16gb 2400mhz DDR3, so your results should be better.
Just turn those reflections down, and look for next week's content update that should be out just before or just after the weekend.
--Thanks for checking out the map, it's over 2500 hours of work!

It should run on medium, low, or very low. I'd advise low, if that doesn't give you good FPS save for one spot that gets a bit slow in downtown Harriman, I am not sure what to say. The processor is a bit on the old side, but if you turn off shadows, it will save on the cpu a bit. 8gb of ram is just enough so close out web browser etc before loading the game. You may get some loading lag periodically using a hard disk drive, but if that is all you have, then it is better than not having a PC. Very Low detail will keep areas with GRASS from getting too slow as it forgoes displaying it entirely, but it looks like a 1990s game then, but you can still play it just fine.
Save up for one of those new AMD APU's that have ZEN cores, and VEGA iGpu's, they'll be out within the next 2~3 months under the new APU lineup for laptops and desktops and should be very reasonably priced.

The location is there, the buildings and town are *NOT* there, it's in the South-East-most corner of the map (less than a mile from the east edge, about 500 feet from the south edge).
You can start in Kingston and continue heading south and keep on going south, until you cross a long bridge, then it becomes four lanes then two lanes after a while (it is 3~4 lanes for some time as it goes over the hill and where River Road splits off). After it's two lanes again, the second road on the left (45 degree angle, it's ONLY on the left, no road to the right here) should get you there. That road - Loudon Hwy, is the last road on the left side of Decatur Road heading south - if you hit the south edge of the map you went too far. Take it for a good mile or such, something like that, and you'll end up seeing a road on the left, stop there & free-cam about, and you'll see some writing on the terrain in white stone just south of your position that says 'MID TOWN', that is where I will one day build the town. Be aware there's nothing but roads, trees, land and water out there, and the map edge of course, it's very very unfinished.
I just checked and there should be a MANUAL AI DESTINATION/TARGET of 'Loudon_Hwy_To_Midway' so pick one of those it should get you close. The AI should have no issue driving there unless you're on one of the side-streets in town and it hits a stop sign.
There's a few Loudon highway pieces so maybe try a few of them, they're all the same road, just different sections of it.
If you have any issues feel free to join in on the discussion forum on the tab above, it's rather active with new posts daily.
Thanks for checking out Beamng.drive's largest map.

Thanks for the good words as always. This is the original large-scale-open-world test for Beamng (as it sits now), though it's been taken much further than originally intended as the original concept when over very well with folks.

I can't say I'd be doing a 'lite' version, however, next week's updates may improve FPS in the downtown areas by as much as 20% give or take a few percent. I am continually optimizing things, and I definitely make sure to keep and eye on the FPS meter while I build (I always do, it's a must).

Folks that don't meet the Beamng.drive Recommended specifications shouldn't try to run this map in it's current state, however, there are many folks that have even run this at 720p on integrated recent Intel Graphics.

Use LOWEST as a last resort, as it may help folks run it that don't have enough GPU power or RAM free.

--Thanks for writing in.