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stormboy1992

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Hello all. I've recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop again and today I wanted to install Trainz Simulator 2009 and it's SP's. All fine with the game, but since the game is the british version from Just Trains (built 38869) I had to download from their website the Trainz2009Update.exe (38869 to 40040) to be able to continue update-ing the service packs. When I ran the update, I got the message "File error while reading patch data. No valid patch operation was specified. Patching aborted.". I ran a small search here on the forum but haven't got any good results. Is there a way to solve this problem?

Thank you. Best regards, Marius.

PS. The last 3 times I've reinstalled Windows and installed TS2009, all went fine.
 
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Hi stormboy1992 (Marius)

Welcome to the forums.

It sounds like you may have either an error on your hard drive, or it needs to be defragmented (for hard disk check instructions check the thread in my signature)

In addition to this, I strongly recommend that you reinstall TS2009.

Shane
 
Thank you for your quick reply, Shane. I've had defragmented the hard drive prior to installing TS2009,and now I've just ran the hard drive for errors and came up with nothing (the hard drive is ok). I'll try now to reinstall the game, though I have a question... I installed the game in my D partition of the hard (as usual). Should I reinstall it in C instead? (I use Windows 7 Professional X64). And for uninstalling the game, would you recomand that I use revo or just go in the Control Panel and uninstall?

Best regards, Marius.
 
Due to possible issues with the uninstaller, it may be worth using Revo just to be safe.

It will run the standard uninstall as part of it anyway.

Shane
 
Hello again. Uninstalled and reinstalled, but still the problem persists :(. Can I update to 40040 via another way?

Best regards, Marius.
 
I've done that via one of your sites :). Still the same problem :(.

Best regards, Marius.

LE: Would running the update in safe mode work?
 
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Unfortunately, this didn't work either :(. Must be my bad luck. Anyway, thank you for all your help Shane :). You're one of a kind :D. Still, if someone were to find out even a small clue, please let me know :). I'm a little tight up, because most of the rolling stock I use is for SP2 minimum :(.

Best regards, Marius.
 
I remember having issues previously with that patch. Re-downloading it should have fixed the problem though.

If you can, next time you run the patch, copy and paste the details into a post.

Shane
 
Ok, here goes then :). I re-downloaded the patch:

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I set the path for the game (I created the folder Auran):

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And when the Auran Patcher starts...:

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And the program closes :(.

Best regards, Marius.

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That is strange. I've just downloaded the patch to check it's size, and it matches yours.

I did notice though that the box next to 'Patching Install' is blank, which should not be the case.

It may be worth running the patch as administrator (if using Windows Vista/7), and making sure that the folder you selected is the correct one for where your TS2009 is installed.

Shane
 
The folder is the corect one, I assure you ( unless it should be a subfolder such as bin, but surely it's not :) ) and I also ran the patch as administrator.
 
OK - I'm a bit baffled then.

The last time I had to install that patch it went OK.

There is one other question though. If you are using Windows Vista or 7, have you set that to run as administrator?

Shane
 
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