Super Bummed and Disappointed...

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ledzeppelinfan1

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So last night (Christmas Eve) I'm up late after my six kids and wife have gone to bed, buzzing under the warm blissful high of running a BNSF coal train though my newly purchased Fall Harvest Nebraska route.

I jump out ahead of my train in free roam mode and think to myself, 'man, this game is just so much fun.'

It was then, after quickly whipping the camera around 180 degrees to catch a great angle, that Windows utterly crashed.

All my fun and only truly enjoyable hobby is now put on hold as we must get it together to arrange the time to fix the issue before I can even begin the task of reinstalling all my goodies and chasing down my myriad of freeware again. It was pretty demoralizing.

Worse yet, in just a few hours my kids were going to awake and one of my sons gifts was going to be a game he'd been looking forward to for weeks on end. He was super upset about that.

My wife feels nearly certain that Trainz and the numerous mods I'd accumulated were responsible for the Windows crash. Is that possible? I mean I am, by far, the only one who really downloads anything at all on the computer.

Just when I was so completely warm with the pleasure this game can bring us, it all fell apart.

I guess I just wanna whine a little. Lol

Thanks for reading, Merry Christmas.
 
Can I check if it was indeed Windows itself (i.e. a blue screen) or Trainz? The cause and possible solutions for each are different.

Shane
 
It seems that is talking about a CTD.

p.s. You're not the only one that downloads anything. I would check if any of the assets that you use, for example, has too many polys on their meshes, and replace them with more efficient assets
 
I would check your hardware as well in that case as blue screens are very serious things and often mean either part of Windows is having major problems or the hardware is failing.

Shane
 
You are not alone.
On my reserve PC with an i3 processor and MSI AMD Graphics card, (R290 Gamer), this can happen if I spin around too fast.
It is probably caused by processor overload, the PC gets Vertigo!
If you restart the PC and reload your game then relaunch your route you will get a message on screen to ask you if you want to use any changes or revert to where before making any alterations.
This version of TANE automatically saves the game for you, so hopefully you will be back to normal.
Just remember not to spin around so fast next time.
If you have a decent PC spec then the above might be all in vain and the experts here will need to know the spec of your PC in order to help.

Good luck!

Update, posts above were made while I was writing this.
 
Sounds like stressed or broken hardware. After the blue screen did the system reboot to Windows OK?

Trainz can really test out your systems cooling. If you are able to run Windows OK, but Trainz has started causing 'blues screens' that's where I would start. Make sure the airflow through your system is good, and not blocked by an accumulation of dust, pet hair, etc.

Phil
 
ledzeppelinfan1 said:
No. It won't even reboot Windows. Windows needs reinstalled.
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OK. Have you been able to reinstall Windows? Sorry to say, but to me it sounds like something is broken in your hardware .. so not really a Trainz (or Windows) issue. Hopefully some one else will come along and disagree with me, and offer you a more positive suggestion.

Feeling your pain!

Phil

(frequently dazed and confused)
 
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Haven't taken a crack at it yet and won't be able to for a bit... got some pressing matters to attend to over this week. Bad timing.

At this point, we're just hoping to be able to salvage any pictures on the HD before taking a shot at reinstalling Windows.

Gotta crash, mates. I'll keep ya up to date.
 
ledzeppelinfan1 said:
No. It won't even reboot Windows. Windows needs reinstalled.
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Not necessarily, reinstalling Windows does not fix hardware faults, could just be a loose connection, video card or ram not seated firmly, cable loose on a drive, just had that here on my oldest PC, CTD when checking mail in Thunderbird, on restarting boot drive had vanished, took side off case and there was the cable dangling in space! how that happened is anyone's guess, it's been untouched for a few years! plugged it back in, well actually replaced it with a spare one and problem solved.
 
Yes, that's a good option!

Open case and pull EVERYTHING out.
At least one time per item.
Memory too.
Stick all things back where they belong.

Have many times "repaired" a PC like that.
Also for others.

☼
 
Yup something loose could do it and so could sadly a damaged component. I had some bad RAM (DIMMs) which were bad or slightly out of timing which would pass the memory tests, but would cause problems otherwise when under stress. Even Memtest86 didn't find them and I let that run for a full weekend. I didn't find these until I had replaced all the other components except the motherboard in the system!

If you are going to poke around inside your computer, watch out for static electricity this time of year. The dry air can cause a build up of static electricity and not being properly grounded, such as staying in contact with the case, can cause harm should a spark arc between you and your circuit boards inside the computer case.
 
Does it still do the bluescreen? If it does, can you upload a picture of it here, to see the code it generated? You might try copying the .DMP files in the Windows folder, if you see any. It can be uploaded to submit a decipher for what caused it.
 
One thing I would Suggest, take HD out of computer, and off load (Copy) drive contents to a spare drive for safe keeping, just in case you have a failing drive........
 
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