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DOVETAIL2

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Hi I have been running trainz 12 for ages with no problem on a i7 computer with 8gb ram, but for the last few days when in drive the screen freezes for a second and makes a noise like interference:( . My husband also runs trainz on a i5 with 2gb ram and is running ok, so it doesnt seem like it is something in the house causing the interference, any ideas please
 
Freezing ? Try turning down the air conditioner temperature setting a tad ... then it won't be so cold. :hehe:

I might be your video card going ... IDK ... which is inexpensive to replace.

Is this a desktop, or laptop ?
 
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:hehe: very funny cascaderailroad, its a desk top computer and its only 4 months old :( I bet that it will be something that is not covered under the warrantee
 
So then is their a problem with the computer and I wish I could help but I don't know much about computers but I will soon once I go to school for computers then I will know but Like I said I wish I could help.:)
 
DOVETAIL2: I know this sounds silley,but I run TS12 also and I have learned to slow down..By that I mean, in Trainz TS12 There is a program called T.A. Daemon(SP)..This program is a kind of management for Trainz..This program does not stop as fast as the Trainz..So therefore you have to learn to hesitate when your working the Trainz Program, wait for TA Daemon to work..In other words Don't Stack up your work..Let the computer work..Mine was freezing alot..It has helped me..
 
Dovetail,

There are so many things that can cause a computer to freeze like this, ranging from a fragmented hard drive to stuff running in memory.

Does this only happen in Driver?

For starters, try turning off things on the computer you are not using such as chat software - Yahoo Messenger, etc. if you are using that, and do a disk clean up and defrag. A defrag helps because the asset database is read in driver. If that file is very fragmented, it can cause lag in driver as the information is loading into memory.

Ensure your computer is getting plenty of cool air. If it begins to get too warm, the CPU will start slowing down, causing the stutters.

Scan your computer for viruses and spyware.

Ensure that you're using error-free content. Older content may load fine, but there may still be some errors in there, causing the program to freeze. The other thing too, flip-board trees, those made like little sheets of plastic shetting with tree pictures on them, will cause gastly pauses. This is due to how the information is used. These are actually very system intensive, and cause performance hits. The newer Speed Treez actually load faster because they're loaded into the video card and can be processed faster.

As I said there are so many things that can cause this.

John
 
Gotta love that, first advice from any developer or support tech is "turn off any unnecessary background programs". Then we get saddled with the mother of all background programs and no way to turn it off - TADDaemon.exe! :hehe: I strongly suspect the common denominator for all of us getting pauses and total freezing is the internet connection speed, anyone who does NOT experience pausing and freezing during the game or in surveyor has high speed cable broadband.
 
Thank you all for your advice, after doing more checking I have found that the noise is there on my i tune player as well so it seems like it is a computer problem and not Trainz, thank you for trying to help me :)
 
DOVETAIL2 said:
Thank you all for your advice, after doing more checking I have found that the noise is there on my i tune player as well so it seems like it is a computer problem and not Trainz, thank you for trying to help me :)
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Backup your data if this is a hardware problem and not a software problem.

A failing hard drive is another source of stutters and poor performance. You don't want to lose any work you've put into your routes!

John
 
sniper297 said:
Gotta love that, first advice from any developer or support tech is "turn off any unnecessary background programs". Then we get saddled with the mother of all background programs and no way to turn it off - TADDaemon.exe! :hehe: I strongly suspect the common denominator for all of us getting pauses and total freezing is the internet connection speed, anyone who does NOT experience pausing and freezing during the game or in surveyor has high speed cable broadband.
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Yup. People with fast internet connections probably have fewer performance problems because the network services can easily receive and send their bits back and forth without any interference issues. TADDaemon.exe is of course a Trainz applet that connects to the DLS and Planet Auran. Sadly it will try to connect when there is no network connection. I have found that this can cause a performance hit on older computers because of the constant, every 2-second, retry. It would be nice to disable network access somehow when not connected to a network.

John
 
I always disconnect my eithernet cable first, then turn off my antivirus and firewall, then use Gamebooster (not free anymore).

Remember to turn your AV back on when done with Trainz !
 
Doesn't help, if you blank out your username and password, disable Ichat, unplug the ethernet cable, then run Trainz in a window with Task Manager running, look at the performance and processes tabs - TADDaemon is still hogging RAM and hammering the CPU every few seconds. Would have been better if they designed it to store saved sessions/routes/games/consists in a temp folder, then have TADDaemon check the DLS for available KUID numbers to assign on exiting the program. The way it is now, Trainz has to fight with TADDaemon for system resources every single minute it's running.
 
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Doesn't help, if you blank out your username and password, disable Ichat, unplug the ethernet cable, then run Trainz in a window with Task Manager running, look at the performance and processes tabs - TADDaemon is still hogging RAM and hammering the CPU every few seconds. Would have been better if they designed it to store saved sessions/routes/games/consists in a temp folder, then have TADDaemon check the DLS for available KUID numbers to assign on exiting the program. The way it is now, Trainz has to fight with TADDaemon for system resources every single minute it's running.
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I agree, Jim. This is definitely a much better way of doing things. N3V probably assumes most people would be using the program with a highspeed internet connection all the time.

John
 
Elementary Watson, TADDaemon.exe (spawned from Lucifer with TRS2009 SP4) is a background program that constantly polls the download station to check what KUID numbers have already been used, so when you save something like a route, session, consist, or game in progress it can instantly assign the next available KUID number to it. Great idea if everyone had 64 bit Win7 with quad core CPU, 16 gigs of RAM and a high speed cable connection, but even on the recommended system specs it's a resource hog and on a 4 meg per minute DSL connection it causes all those pauses and freezing.

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Open task manager and set it for "Always on top", click the processes tab and select CPU to bounce all the processes using the largest percentage of the CPU to the top. Change tabs in surveyor and watch what TADDaemon.exe does.
 
 
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Trainz can be a demanding program you need a PC with enough power to handle it I have lost one PC due to 2 years of having trs on it.
 
Simplest fix for freezing, stuttering, delay on tabs in surveyor is putting Trainz on an SSD drive, if of course you can afford one, they are however rapidly coming down in price.
Since going SSD I simply don't have any problem on or off line. Prior to getting an SSD, I could keep the problems minimal by frequently defragging and running an EDR every couple of days.
 
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