Before I call it quits, help me first

[enginewhistle]

I would like some assistance before I actually reinstall the game. I have been doing an extended database repair for 3 hours, and it goes slowest on checking faulty assets. I've read that too many of those can make the game unstable, but when I apply a filter in content manager to get to those, it pretty much freezes and it still says "please wait" after many minutes. Can anybody please help me with this???? I do not want to have to reinstall the game just yet:'(

 

[JCitron]

This is normal, and happens sometimes when using the filters particularly if the filter has to sort through a lot of assets.
Let Content Manager finish its search and see what it finds.

One of the things that does help is a hard drive defrag. Remember CM is reading in the database file from the hard disk, and if the disk is very fragmented, this can definitely slow down the performance.

John

 

[RoysTrainz]

yep, John,
I think it should not be that long at all unless your drive is fragmented old no SSD and the comp spec is to old for TS12 to run properly.

Roy

 

[shaneturner12]

If you have database windows turned on, check the activity of TrainzUtil, as this is the process responsible for doing most of the work. It has a habit of failing to do things properly at times - you can usually tell this in the TADDaemon output.

Shane

 

[steamrodder]

Hi Enginewhistle, after each time I'm done running Trainz for the day (Or night), I always run a Defrag program to keep things running smooth, especially after a major downloading session and commiting the new assets. so when you have to do a data repair, it will go a little faster. It also depends on how manny assets that you have too. So far, I'v only had to do one data base repair and it took almost 6 hrs to complete! (I have almost 96,400 assest to check out!!) So give it a try before doing a reinstall. Good luck -Robert-

 

[tomurban]

Try breaking down the search for faulty assets into groups such as "locomotives", "rolling stock", etc. with the CMP search filter and do one group at a time.