I am new to trainz, bought 2004 because I found it for a fiver, then had to buy 2009 because I was instantly hooked. No warning given on the web site, they suck us in offering this seemingly inocent train software and just a week later you are an addict, I have a good mind to report them.
Anyway, still learning, but I laid out a two double ring layout side by side, with coal and oil on one ring, passengers on the ring beside it, but one shared section of line with water and coal for the trains to top up.
Basically I was using it to get to grips with better train schedule planning and line signals. So I left it as a bare board other than the lines and stations.
Then I tried a quick run from the surveyor and the whole of ts2009 closed down, just a windows warning "your software has stopped running".
It hasn't done this on the other boards I laid out for testing trainz before or after this incident, I obviously did something wrong. But what I couldn't see was a way to find out what without deleting one item at a time, try to run it, if it crashes delete another .... until I find the offensive item.
So I wondered how others deal with debuging, not only a board that doesn't work, but I wondered if there is a way to output various other debug notices. For example when I'm trying to work out the best timing to keep trains moving could output a message of the relative time since the start of when it passes each marker.
Anyway, still learning, but I laid out a two double ring layout side by side, with coal and oil on one ring, passengers on the ring beside it, but one shared section of line with water and coal for the trains to top up.
Basically I was using it to get to grips with better train schedule planning and line signals. So I left it as a bare board other than the lines and stations.
Then I tried a quick run from the surveyor and the whole of ts2009 closed down, just a windows warning "your software has stopped running".
It hasn't done this on the other boards I laid out for testing trainz before or after this incident, I obviously did something wrong. But what I couldn't see was a way to find out what without deleting one item at a time, try to run it, if it crashes delete another .... until I find the offensive item.
So I wondered how others deal with debuging, not only a board that doesn't work, but I wondered if there is a way to output various other debug notices. For example when I'm trying to work out the best timing to keep trains moving could output a message of the relative time since the start of when it passes each marker.