I am at my wits end!

[rastis]

G'day...

Okay... Problems with display drivers... AGAIN!

When using DirectX, bogies on locomotives AND rolling stock are invisible and/or disappear when driving. Push the throttle up when the train has no bogies and the locomotice accelerates to maximum speed in under 1 second... This occurs when in Driver.

When using OpenGL, the meshes on all objects when a train is added to the track, stretch out to unbeliveable lengths. This is known as 'sharding' This is such a pain because all the menu stretches out aswell... This is in BOTH Driver AND Surveyor.

Unless someone can convince me that this problem can be fixed, Trainz will NOT be being used for a LOOOONG time...

Cheers...

A terribly annoyed Jake.

 

[Bondy007]

3 quick questions

Ok Jake
Before I can offer much advice a few things that might help diagnose the problem

1. What is the graphics card in your machine
2. What version of Windows are you running
3. Which version of Trainz are you running

These little pieces of info just might point us in the community in the right direction

Cheers
Bondy

 

[tomurban]

G'day...

Okay... Problems with display drivers... AGAIN!

When using DirectX, bogies on locomotives AND rolling stock are invisible and/or disappear when driving. Push the throttle up when the train has no bogies and the locomotice accelerates to maximum speed in under 1 second... This occurs when in Driver.

When using OpenGL, the meshes on all objects when a train is added to the track, stretch out to unbeliveable lengths. This is known as 'sharding' This is such a pain because all the menu stretches out aswell... This is in BOTH Driver AND Surveyor.

Unless someone can convince me that this problem can be fixed, Trainz will NOT be being used for a LOOOONG time...

Cheers...

A terribly annoyed Jake.

Jake: This sounds more like a graphics problem than a Trainz problem. Because Trainz is quite demanding (graphics wise) this is where it shows up. I would suggest running Trainzdiag.exe (in your BIN folder). It will give you a complete report and pinpoint any problem areas with RED check marks.

tomurban

 

[Deano5]

Must agree it does sound like a graphics issue here, what card and what driver are you using?

 

[rastis]

G'day...

Okay so, I ran a TrainzDiag, everything had a green tick next to it. So no problems with that. If you're wondering, my Graphics Card is a GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2

Cheers...

Jake.

 

[mtldrm38]

May suggest another stick of ram and assuming your running 2009
graphic card isnt a bad card processor and 32bit may be a little weak
for running 2009 putting a lot of stress on your comp..........

One reason I havent switched to 2009 or 2010 knowing my comp probably be givin me fits running them.............

Dave =)

 

[Approach_Medium]

Do you have any other apps running when you are running Trainz?
I would shut down everything except maybe your antivirus.
Look at Task Manager, on the processes tab, and see what is running. If you are unfamiliar with the various processes, copy it and paste into your next post.

FW

 

[Davie_UCF]

The sharding, aren't they like artifacts when a card is working too hard and getting hot?

 

[clam1952]

The sharding, aren't they like artifacts when a card is working too hard and getting hot?

Just seen this thread and I think they are, sounds similar to when I had a fanless graphics card which was overheating, added a fan and it was fine, perhaps a look inside the case and a clean out and check the cooling, fans working not blocked up with fluff etc may be in order? Also worth checking everything is seated properly, things do on occasions work loose, just replaced as sata cable that kept working loose for some strange reason, replacement is staying put!

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

Just seen this thread and I think they are, sounds similar to when I had a fanless graphics card which was overheating, added a fan and it was fine, perhaps a look inside the case and a clean out and check the cooling, fans working not blocked up with fluff etc may be in order? Also worth checking everything is seated properly, things do on occasions work loose, just replaced as sata cable that kept working loose for some strange reason, replacement is staying put!

Not necessarily the problem, I got sharding on my Optiplex recently, which only started when Windows updated my nVidia drivers to 258.something or other. So that where the problems lay. Now, if only I could revert them back.

 

[Deano5]

This is why I asked my two questions above, I have had it happen to me too in the past, it was a driver issue. Just because you have the latest top hot driver does not mean you can't get issues like this. Try a different driver.

 

[clam1952]

Not necessarily the problem, I got sharding on my Optiplex recently, which only started when Windows updated my nVidia drivers to 258.something or other. So that where the problems lay. Now, if only I could revert them back.

Should be able to solve that by either rolling back the driver in device manager or installing the drivers from Nvidia, the Windows ones are usually out of date and in my experience not that good. Need to make sure you don't allow Windows update to install anything related to hardware.

Current Nvidia driver is 260.99 which seems free from any problems, well here anyway.

 

[TRAINMAN206]

hi jake.
im fully suprised that no one who has posted has even noticed that you had a celeron processor as your cpu power.how in the world are you running trainz with that processor when the minimum requirements even for trs 2006 are for a pentium 4 processor?just a thought.lol.i think your trainz diag. program must have a bug in it if its showing all green checks with it.i would get a new motherboard/computer with a minimum cpu spec of a pentium with 2.4 ghz with it.that may be why your screen in trainz is doing that.
let me know how this works out for you!!!

 

[clam1952]

That's a dual core Celeron, I did actually Google it before I made my first post, should be capable of running Trainz just......

 

[rastis]

G'day...

Well, before I got all these problems, TS2009 ran like clockwork, no lag, nothing. After it crashed, I had to reinstall, re-imported all my Content back into Trainz. It ran fine again. After installing the latest Nvida Drivers, all this started happening... :'(

Cheers...

Jake.

 

[shaneturner12]

Might be worth rolling back to the previous driver using Device Manager - especially if the driver was installed via Windows/Microsoft Update.

Shane

 

[tomurban]

G'day...

Well, before I got all these problems, TS2009 ran like clockwork, no lag, nothing. After it crashed, I had to reinstall, re-imported all my Content back into Trainz. It ran fine again. After installing the latest Nvida Drivers, all this started happening... :'(

Cheers...

Jake.

If you were able to run 2009 well before installation of the new drivers the new drivers are the source of your problem. Are you sure that you installed the correct drivers for your video card? Did you you get them from the Nvidia Web site? If so your previous version may still be on your system. If not, you can find them on the Nvidia site. This problem is fixable.

tomurban