I have the Trainz World Builder Edition and I have been attempting to build a custom route. When my route gets to be about 5 miles long, when I try to merge a new block of land with the route, it takes a long time to merge and sometimes it crashes. After this starts happening, my route will not even load. I have tried reinstalling the game and the same thing is happening once again. Just out of curiosity, I tried merging a new block of land with the Marias Pass route since it is by far longer than 5 miles and it loads up just fine. Any ideas?
Trainz crashes after 5 miles of route
- Thread starter cnjoe
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Welcome to Trainz, cnjoe,
I'm sorry it was a problem like this that brought you to the forums. There are a number of things that can cause a crash like this, but since you can merge a blank board with an existing route, there is something here telling me that it's some kind of bad content that's causing this.
What did you install last?
Do you remember anything that you used on one of your previous baseboards that is a recent download?
If you can remember and delete it, try adding another baseboard in afterwards.
In the future, please include your Trazin version and computer specs for us. This is helpful when diagnosing a problem particularly from a very long distance away. We don't have the luxury of visiting or seeing your machine for ourselves, and being a PC-based game there are many different variations on the computer hardware, and versions of Windows, that it could be running on.
I hope this helps some. I'm sure others will pipe in with more suggestions.
John
meatloaf747
Spotter...
As John asks, what is the spec's of your PC??? (particularly RAM & CPU)...
Most large detailed routes require a medium to high spec'ed PC to run properly..
Cheers, Mac...
Most large detailed routes require a medium to high spec'ed PC to run properly..
Cheers, Mac...
JCitron,
The only thing that I am currently using on the route that was downloaded was a renameable milepost.
I am running the new Trainz 2009 World Builder Edition. I can't find a version number on it, but I ordered it about 2 weeks ago.
My computer has:
Windows XP Media Center Edition, with service pack 2
Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz
2 GB of RAM
293 GB of memory
Graphics Card:
7300 GeForce LE
128 MB Dedicated Memory
512 MB Total Memory
I know this barely meets the requirements but it runs all the other routes, just a little slow. It takes about 10 seconds to load the Marias Pass route whereas my 5 mile custom route takes 4.5 minutes. My custom route has nothing but track and crossings, whistle posts and mileposts, not much at all.
Thanks for the help,
cnjoe
The only thing that I am currently using on the route that was downloaded was a renameable milepost.
I am running the new Trainz 2009 World Builder Edition. I can't find a version number on it, but I ordered it about 2 weeks ago.
My computer has:
Windows XP Media Center Edition, with service pack 2
Intel Core 2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz
2 GB of RAM
293 GB of memory
Graphics Card:
7300 GeForce LE
128 MB Dedicated Memory
512 MB Total Memory
I know this barely meets the requirements but it runs all the other routes, just a little slow. It takes about 10 seconds to load the Marias Pass route whereas my 5 mile custom route takes 4.5 minutes. My custom route has nothing but track and crossings, whistle posts and mileposts, not much at all.
Thanks for the help,
cnjoe
Just a quick suggestion:
Try adding a blank baseboard to the end of your 5 mile route and merging the route to join the blank baseboard.
If that works, build up the landscape and add the trackwork and any scenery of the blank baseboard so that your tracks run continuously and enjoy.
.............That is asuming, of course, that your layout doesn't have to be too prototypical and that an extra baseboard won't make the stretch between stations too unrealistic?
Try adding a blank baseboard to the end of your 5 mile route and merging the route to join the blank baseboard.
If that works, build up the landscape and add the trackwork and any scenery of the blank baseboard so that your tracks run continuously and enjoy.
.............That is asuming, of course, that your layout doesn't have to be too prototypical and that an extra baseboard won't make the stretch between stations too unrealistic?
If I remember correctly there was a bug causing various problems with merging, I know I was having problems and now am not, I believe it was fixed in SP1 or that small patch at the beginning of the year, if you have just got 2009 have you updated it yet?
I had similar problems merging dem's.
This may or may not work in your case, I may have got lucky but I got round it by using a blank baseboard and merging the main route to anywhere other than where you want to join the additional route to. After testing a couple of times, I found just leaving it in free space, say off to the side works. Then I saved it, closed the route and opened it again and then merged the extra bit to where it was supposed to go, then just deleted the blank board and saved the combined route. Whatever you do I would save backup copies first just in case of a disaster.
I had similar problems merging dem's.
This may or may not work in your case, I may have got lucky but I got round it by using a blank baseboard and merging the main route to anywhere other than where you want to join the additional route to. After testing a couple of times, I found just leaving it in free space, say off to the side works. Then I saved it, closed the route and opened it again and then merged the extra bit to where it was supposed to go, then just deleted the blank board and saved the combined route. Whatever you do I would save backup copies first just in case of a disaster.
A way round the length problem could be to chop one board off the route replace with the blank board merge to the blank board and reconstruct the missing bit or then delete the blank board and replace with the bit you deleted but had previously saved as on board on it's own.