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My route is based in western Maine, USA in the 1960s. How can I change the default road traffic from modern cars to pre 1970s cars?
 
My route is based in western Maine, USA in the 1960s. How can I change the default road traffic from modern cars to pre 1970s cars?

Open your route in Surveyor.

Click on Main menu
Click on Edit Route...
Change the region by scrolling the list.
Click on Vintage USA region which will load your older cars up.

In the even that there are no cars, you may need to edit the config.txt for your route and put in the KUIDs for your vehicles. These are no longer scenery automobiles, but instead are listed as trackside items. I am not sure if there are any made already, but scenery autos can be adapted using the super adaptor.

John
 
Thank you. But it's too late now. I lost the entire route because the "map kuid is unknown". Three months of work and almost thirty boards of detailed work is gone. I lost it all when I did an extended database repair.
 
Thank you. But it's too late now. I lost the entire route because the "map kuid is unknown". Three months of work and almost thirty boards of detailed work is gone. I lost it all when I did an extended database repair.

That..., well you know what I was going to say!

Do you have any backups?

Trainz TS12 also creates backups too. Check in the User Data backups folder and you can go back at least a week. Maybe with a bit of luck, your route is still there.

John
 
Thank you. But it's too late now. I lost the entire route because the "map kuid is unknown". Three months of work and almost thirty boards of detailed work is gone. I lost it all when I did an extended database repair.

That's a horrible thing to happen after putting in so much work.I know how you feel.

I lost a couple of years work and a mountain of downloaded content due to a hard drive failure and felt like giving up.

I hope you find the will to put it behind you and start again......difficult,i know.
 
That..., well you know what I was going to say!

Do you have any backups?

Trainz TS12 also creates backups too. Check in the User Data backups folder and you can go back at least a week. Maybe with a bit of luck, your route is still there.

John

Thanks, John. Actually, I didn't lose the route. It's still here but it won't load due to the "unknown" map kuid. I did find the backups but don't see how to open them.
P.S. Actually I think what I'm seeing is backups for sessions, not the route itself. The route does not show up in CMP like the last session does.
 
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That's a horrible thing to happen after putting in so much work.I know how you feel.

I lost a couple of years work and a mountain of downloaded content due to a hard drive failure and felt like giving up.

I hope you find the will to put it behind you and start again......difficult,i know.

At this point I'm not sure I want to start again. Trainz has never run without frequent freezes and jerky motion on my PC. I've tried everything but over-clocking my video card and nothing seems to help.
 
At this point I'm not sure I want to start again. Trainz has never run without frequent freezes and jerky motion on my PC. I've tried everything but over-clocking my video card and nothing seems to help.

First, save the old route to a CDP file and note that it has an error. That error still may be fixable but start with a backup.

Next, click File->Import Content and navigate to the backup folder that you think has a recent copy of your route and let it import that, overwriting the existing copy if needed (which is why I said to save the CDP of the faulty copy).

You should be good to go. With a little luck, you may not have lost any work or at least much.

As for freezes and jerky motion, you might want to post to the Parts and Labour section with some specs and whatnot. However, an interim solution that helps a lot of people with the herky-jerky operation is to disconnect from the internet, any network shares, disable the anti-virus software, firewalls, etc.
 
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