A nifty utility for debugging Trainz problems...DebugView.

JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003
Debug View.

DebugView is available free from Microsoft's TechNet and is part of the System Internals Suite. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545021.aspx

This is set automatically to debug 32-bit applications that are running and the most often run 32-bit application on my computer is Trainz.

Load this up after running Trainz and in a window it will show the debug messages being sent by the simulation. This information can be sent to a log file for later viewing. For me it appears I have an issue with an attachment point and sound with a piece of rolling stock.

[46944] ? 650:56.9 : World.NativePlaySound> Cannot find attachment point 'a.bog1' in asset '<kuid:37581:1003>'.
[46944] ? 653:37.6 : World.NativePlaySound> Cannot find attachment point 'a.limfront' in asset '<kuid:37581:1003>'.

etc. (there are a ton of them to troubleshoot for this asset, with various messages referring to the same attachment point.)

Cool, aye! :)

It's now time to go find the culprit and fix the problem. Keep in mind this is only occurring in the current route loaded and the current set of rolling stock in this particular session. With a gazillion items installed, this can be a rather lengthy process to clean up all my rolling stock.

John
 
This might be exactly what I am looking for! I've been banging my head against a CMTM Portal issue and this might help!
 
Sometimes seeing when the error occurs in real-time is much more helpful then a dump of information after the fact. Especially in troubleshooting.
 
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