I'm completely new to Trainz. Just installed it yesterday. And I'm having much trouble making it work right at all.
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, w/ 4GB RAM, tons of hard drive space, a ViewSonic VA903b monitor with a driver that Trainz's initial hardware check said is 19 months old, but which has never given me any grief at all, and I have not tweaked anything in Trainz. In particular, I have not changed virtual memory. And I have not downloaded the latest patches yet. I'm running TS2010EE, build 42203 right out of the box. Other than the one vid driver alert I mentioned above, Trainz's tech diagnostic gave me all green check marks.
All I've done so far is the first 2 tutorials, and tonight I tried--and failed completely--to run the 3rd module.
Here's a synopsis of some of the strange things I've seen so far, in no order of importance or occurrence.
1. In general, when I hover the mouse pointer over the menu list in the upper left corner, the item to the left of where I've positioned the pointer lights up! For example, when I position the pointer over the Pause button, the Main Menu lights up, not the object I've put the mouse pointer on! And when I put the pointer on the Pause button and click LMB, the main menu is displayed, and the Pause button--which I've pointed to--does nothing! I refuse to believe ANY intelligent software designer wants his software to work that way!
2. In general, almost none of the items I can point to does anything at all when I click LMB. In the rare event that clicking LMB on anything--e.g., the > button on a tutorial screen--eventually does anything at all, in most cases I have had to wait at least 10-15 seconds for anything to change on screen at all. I realize that in today's day and age we all want instant gratification and in that context 10-15 seconds seems like an eternity, but again, I refuse to believe the software was DESIGNED to wait that long for any LMB click to take any effect at all.
3. In the 3rd tutorial module, the screen fails to occupy the entire monitor screen, but it did in mods 1 and 2. And in reduced size, in module 3, the text at the lower right on the HUD window is obscured by the border of the screen, making it nearly impossible to read whatever label pops up when I hover the pointer over any of the objects in the window. I have failed completely to find any way to maximize or reduce the size of the screen using traditional Windows methods.
I'm completely frustrated at this point. If someone can help me figure out what's wrong and how to fix it so the program will work right, I think I could have fun with it. But at the moment, it's just taking up disc space!
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, w/ 4GB RAM, tons of hard drive space, a ViewSonic VA903b monitor with a driver that Trainz's initial hardware check said is 19 months old, but which has never given me any grief at all, and I have not tweaked anything in Trainz. In particular, I have not changed virtual memory. And I have not downloaded the latest patches yet. I'm running TS2010EE, build 42203 right out of the box. Other than the one vid driver alert I mentioned above, Trainz's tech diagnostic gave me all green check marks.
All I've done so far is the first 2 tutorials, and tonight I tried--and failed completely--to run the 3rd module.
Here's a synopsis of some of the strange things I've seen so far, in no order of importance or occurrence.
1. In general, when I hover the mouse pointer over the menu list in the upper left corner, the item to the left of where I've positioned the pointer lights up! For example, when I position the pointer over the Pause button, the Main Menu lights up, not the object I've put the mouse pointer on! And when I put the pointer on the Pause button and click LMB, the main menu is displayed, and the Pause button--which I've pointed to--does nothing! I refuse to believe ANY intelligent software designer wants his software to work that way!
2. In general, almost none of the items I can point to does anything at all when I click LMB. In the rare event that clicking LMB on anything--e.g., the > button on a tutorial screen--eventually does anything at all, in most cases I have had to wait at least 10-15 seconds for anything to change on screen at all. I realize that in today's day and age we all want instant gratification and in that context 10-15 seconds seems like an eternity, but again, I refuse to believe the software was DESIGNED to wait that long for any LMB click to take any effect at all.
3. In the 3rd tutorial module, the screen fails to occupy the entire monitor screen, but it did in mods 1 and 2. And in reduced size, in module 3, the text at the lower right on the HUD window is obscured by the border of the screen, making it nearly impossible to read whatever label pops up when I hover the pointer over any of the objects in the window. I have failed completely to find any way to maximize or reduce the size of the screen using traditional Windows methods.
I'm completely frustrated at this point. If someone can help me figure out what's wrong and how to fix it so the program will work right, I think I could have fun with it. But at the moment, it's just taking up disc space!
