Comments on: New to using custom SMR maps?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:15:11 +0000

You can only have one map installed at any one time, from the sounds of it you installed mutliple maps.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:49:58 +0000

I have just downloaded a few of the custom maps using the map shifter (which is a heavenly gift for us computer illiterate, thank u very much). I moved all the maps to the correct folder, and they show up in the game, but when I try to load the map my game crashes. Im assuming the game is up to date since I bought it thru steam.

Running on Windows 7, if that means anything.

By: Warll

Warll — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:55:04 +0000

http://www.7-zip.org/

By: Kold Dragon

Kold Dragon — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:16:52 +0000

Got a link for 7-zip? Iknow I saw it but can’t find it again. Thanks again for the help!

By: Warll

Warll — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:10:37 +0000

Patch your game to 1.10, download 7-zip. Extract the map you would like to play to a temporary folder, then copy paste the contents of this folder to the usermaps folder inside the smr folder which can be found in the “my games” folder which is found in “my documents”.

You can ignore the map shifter, I’m rewriting it is C++ and the new version should be a lot simpler, it only has one button and a file select dialog.

By: Kold Dragon

Kold Dragon — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:50:38 +0000

ok, I am a bit on the illeterate side here, I have just reinstalled the game, (havent updated or anything yet), I have dl’d a bunch of the custom maps to there very own folder on my desktop, I have also dl’d the mapshifter, and yes, now Im completely lost….. Can you give me step by step instructions, and dumb em down so even a lil child could understand? Thanks in advance for your help.

By: Warll

Warll — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:12:48 +0000

To use map shifter you have to change the file extension on the maps from .zip to .7z. To add manps manually you have to move them into the "USER/Documents/My Games/Sid Meierâ€e Railroads!/usermaps" folder.

By: Friedl

Friedl — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Hey guys, hope someone can help. I am new to custom maps, read through everything, but am still unable to load custom maps. I downloaded a couple, also tried MapShifter, but if I point MapShifter to the directory with the new maps in, is does not display the maps?

I tried manually managing the maps, but if I copy the contents of the downloaded map into USER/Documents/My Games/Sid Meier’e Railroads! the new map does not load in the game?

Please help, this is my all time favourite game 🙂

By: Warll

Warll — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:22:32 +0000

In general the majority of maps were released 2007-2008. Again like download size there is only but a very minor link between quality of year of release.

By: Bus

Bus — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:46:54 +0000

I was referring to the original publishing date