Route corrupted? Saved sessions crashing...

[FLWBStrainman]

Hello all.

It's been awhile since I've posted here... been busy with school, work, film-making, and volunteering on the railroad. It's been several months since I've run Trainz...

I've been having an issue with one particular route. That issue is that I cannot save in driver. More correctly; I can save, but if I open a saved session, Trainz (and my computer) crashes.

This started happening after a particular surveyor session. I do remember adding some things during that session, but it's been about a year or so ago, and I never have solved the problem.

Again, this happens only on one route. It sucks because I've been working on this route for over 2 years now. It's about 130 miles of track. It takes around 3 or 4 hours to run end-to-end, which is near impossible to do without saving.

When it crashes upon loading a saved session, it doesn't even throw up an error. It just plain locks up. Sometimes even CTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't work. This is very frustrating.

I do have a couple versions that I saved prior to "corrupting" it, so if nothing else, I could revert to one of those, but I'd lose about 50 miles of completed track...

If anyone could help me at all, I'd appreciate it.

 

[JCitron]

I do know your frustrations because my personal route is about that long as well. I've been working on mine since TRS2004. It would be a shame to have to give up the project at this point.

Anyway, what version of Trainz are you running?

Have you tried deleting the sessions only and creating a new one?

Another thing to try, and this worked for me with a similar problem, is to reset your video settings in the Options.

Actually set them back to the defaults. Save. Exit the program, then come in and set them back to where you want them.

Surprisingly this worked for me, and I wonder if somehow the display settings were corrupt in the trainz.cfg file somewhere.

Hope this helps.

John

 

[FLWBStrainman]

I am running Trainz 2006.

 

[JCitron]

I am running Trainz 2006.

I had the issue with TRS2006 and I solved it as I stated by resetting my display settings as I mentioned.

The problem manifested its self as a content problem. The program would freeze, crash and everything else in certain areas of the route. I went as far as to delete station objects, and anything else I thought would cause that problem.

Then one day when just about ready to give up, I happened to reset the display, not because I thought that would solve the problem, but because I was playing with my settings. When they defaulted, the route played fine, and I've had no problems since I brought the display settings back up to where I used to have them.

John