Surveyor track items don't point in same direction in Driver mode.

[gvuglum]

In Trainz 2010 does anyone know how to fix the problem I'm having where some, not all, track signals or end of track bumpers added in Surveyor will point in a different direction when viewed in Driver mode in Saved Sessions? I took a session from Route and modified it by adding additional track with a few Signal USA 05 and US bumper 1 items and then saved the modified file under Saved Session. When I go into Saved Sessions and open the file under Driver Mode I find one end of track bumper pointing in the right direction but the other bumper on another track points in opposite direction where bumper is pointing to end of track and I don't know how to turn it around. Using the rotation feature in Surveyor doesn't fix the problem.

As for Signal USA 05 most will point in right direction but I have some that are pointing 90 degrees away from the track and don't know how to fix that. I have moved the signal around but nothing seems to help.

Any suggestions?

 

[stagecoach]

Saved driver sessions cant be altered, only surveyor sessions. When you save in driver mode the map and session are saved into a different location, they dont replace the existing map and session set up in surveyor.

 

[gvuglum]

Thank you stagecoach 75377 for responding. I don't think I stated my problem correctly, all my changes were done using Surveyor mode and then reviewed in Driver mode. Now for the good news and I learn something new. I just replaced 4 Gig of RAM in my Desktop PC with 8 Gig RAM and would you believe all the problems are gone and the track items that were pointing in wrong direction now point in the right direction? I didn't know that insufficient amount of RAM memory would cause some track items to point in wrong direction when saving the Driver file in the Saved Sessions folder. All is working out well now.

Thank you again for your advice and happy railroading.

 

[RRSignal]

Thank you stagecoach 75377 for responding. I don't think I stated my problem correctly, all my changes were done using Surveyor mode and then reviewed in Driver mode. Now for the good news and I learn something new. I just replaced 4 Gig of RAM in my Desktop PC with 8 Gig RAM and would you believe all the problems are gone and the track items that were pointing in wrong direction now point in the right direction? I didn't know that insufficient amount of RAM memory would cause some track items to point in wrong direction when saving the Driver file in the Saved Sessions folder. All is working out well now.

Thank you again for your advice and happy railroading.

Just curious, but did you replace all the RAM or just add some? Trainz can't use more than 4Gb even on a 64-bit system. But, I'm wondering if you had bad memory in the first place. I hope that hasn't damaged your route in a manner you haven't seen yet.

 

[gvuglum]

I replaced all 4 memory cards. Perhaps I could have had a bad card and not know it? Windows performance monitor did show I had 4-Gig memory before replacing it and www.crucial.com showed I had 4 - 1 Gig memory cards in the PC. Thank you for the heads-up on possible route damage I will wait and see this won't be the first time I have had to start from scratch with it.

I like your comment below your response regarding golf, I just went back to playing the game after being away from it for five years and really got flogged yesterday.

 

[JCitron]

I replaced all 4 memory cards. Perhaps I could have had a bad card and not know it? Windows performance monitor did show I had 4-Gig memory before replacing it and www.crucial.com showed I had 4 - 1 Gig memory cards in the PC. Thank you for the heads-up on possible route damage I will wait and see this won't be the first time I have had to start from scratch with it.

I like your comment below your response regarding golf, I just went back to playing the game after being away from it for five years and really got flogged yesterday.

Stay away from the 7-iron. They are dangerous critters. Seriously! I got whacked pretty badly by a 7-iron during my one and only golf lesson. Talk about being flogged!

Anyway, I've seen memory do really, really weird things in the past. I had a problem where my large route would die after 1/2 hour of driving. It always happened in the same spot so I thought it was something wrong with the assets or textures. I replaced objects, replaced the stations, even blamed it on a station because after I replaced the building, everything worked for another 1/2 hour. I then thought perhaps my system was overheating and started checking parts inside the box. Like your computer, its always as clean as an operating room. The power supply I noticed would drop voltage on occasion and the system would become unstable. I replaced the power supply, but the problem still happened! What?!!?

Eventually I got error messages in Internet Explorer and Word. BINGO!!! I ran memtst86 and the problem was a bad DIMM which I replaced under warranty. Apparently the DIMM had a bad IC chip on it that was dragging down the bus and the power. I've seen that before in my old hardware technician days many years ago, but never thought this was the issue with the DIMM; I've been out of that end of computers close to 20 years now. After replacing the DIMM, everything ran fine afterwards.

John

 

[gvuglum]

Thank you for the info, sounds like you went through a lot more than I did in making changes to your route before finding the culprit. I may have had the same problem with a bad chip for my session would start acting up after a few hours.