Trainz 12 Hangs on Main Menu

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Trainz Scripter/Developer
There are times when my Trainz 12 hangs on Main Menu for several hours. TADdaemon log says:

Code: 
  24:30.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4847  24:35.9 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=21 duration=8121
  24:38.3 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=64 duration=1897
  24:38.3 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=64 duration=2771
  24:38.3 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=21 duration=2465
  24:38.4 : Assets remaining to validate: 4785
  24:43.8 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=64 duration=2251
  24:43.8 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=64 duration=2054
  24:43.9 : Assets remaining to validate: 4760
  24:49.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4755
  24:52.0 : Assets remaining to validate: 4745
  24:52.6 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=21 duration=14269
  24:53.6 : Assets remaining to validate: 4739
  24:55.4 : Assets remaining to validate: 4720
  24:56.4 : AssetIndex::WriteDatabase
  25:01.4 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=64 duration=4663
  25:01.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4719
  25:02.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4717
  25:03.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4716
  25:04.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4715
  25:05.5 : Assets remaining to validate: 4713
  25:16.7 : Assets remaining to validate: 4711
  25:17.7 : Assets remaining to validate: 4706
  25:19.6 : Assets remaining to validate: 4704
  25:20.2 : ~TADServerTransaction> command=21 duration=27514
  25:20.2 : Assets remaining to validate: 4682
  25:20.5 : Assets remaining to validate: 4680
  25:23.8 : Assets remaining to validate: 4679
  25:27.3 : Assets remaining to validate: 4675
  25:30.4 : Assets remaining to validate: 4671
  25:31.0 : Assets remaining to validate: 4668

What does assets remaining to validate mean?
 
This is the DRM initiated validation of the assets in N3V's content you have purchased from Simulator Central. This will happen about every 30 days and until it has validated all the assets you have purchased it assumes you do not have a right to them. When the validation is complete after about 2 hours and assuming the validation has completed without errors you might have access to all your content. Sometimes things go wrong and the validation can completely fail like over the weekend or in part. If this happens you will not be able to use much of the content in you database including non built-in assets that rely on dependencies such as bogies, couplings, enginespecs, cabs etc that are included in the DLC you have purchased. As a result many sessions you have created or downloaded from the DLS will not work correctly because of missing locomotives, wagons, scripts plus many other items.

All you can do is wait out the validation because it is not worth trying to do anything with Trainz or quite often even browsing the forum pages because the validation process takes up so much of your computers resources that everything else will be extremely slow.
 
I experience this from time to time. This past weekend was terrible.

Very unacceptable behavior on the part of the validation concept and process.
 
N3V has to seriously look into this process because this process truly is unacceptable, and rethink what is checked and how the process is done. If I had known this would happen, I never would have bought some of the DLC they had available. It's like buying an innocuous looking black box only to find a poison snake inside!

At this time, my install is still validating after starting again late last night. This is the second go round, which finally removed all the missing dependencies. So basically for 4 days I've been unable to use TS12 SP1 HF4. It's a good thing I have other computers and also have other interests away from Trainz.

John
 
JCitron said:
N3V has to seriously look into this process because this process truly is unacceptable, and rethink what is checked and how the process is done. If I had known this would happen, I never would have bought some of the DLC they had available. It's like buying an innocuous looking black box only to find a poison snake inside!

At this time, my install is still validating after starting again late last night. This is the second go round, which finally removed all the missing dependencies. So basically for 4 days I've been unable to use TS12 SP1 HF4. It's a good thing I have other computers and also have other interests away from Trainz.

John
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N3V either is unaware of the problem or just doesn't care.

The old Pennsylvania Railroad in its last days of passenger trains had the philosophy "The passengers be damned". We know where they ended up.
 
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