Trainz flashing colors and shapes + freezing

[reginaldfan1]

Whenever I get into almost any route, surveyor or driver, it randomly flashes colors and shapes and then freezes. Almost ALL of my routes do this after 5 min. or so. I have to use task manager to close it. This is annoying, I need help please.

https://atrainzfan.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F741981302688022528

 

[MasterTracklayer]

Something like this actually sounds like old video drivers could be responsible. If verifying that your drivers are all up-to-date doesn`t fix this, you could try to report this as a bug.

 

[afe_uy]

I seemed to remember Midtown Madness and the conflicts with Dx7... Almost certainly something from that. It would be interesting to know the hardware involved ...

 

[JCitron]

What kind of computer is this?

What are the temperatures inside your computer?

Did you touch any of the developer settings on the Developer menu item prior to using Trainz?

 

[reginaldfan1]

What kind of computer is this?

What are the temperatures inside your computer?

Did you touch any of the developer settings on the Developer menu item prior to using Trainz?

My computer is an ASUS Dash F15 series gaming laptop.

I do not know the temperature, but I can tell you it was very hot to the touch

I did not touch any developer settings at all.

 

[afe_uy]

It's not bad at all... there are 4 variables in Graphics: 3050, 3050Ti, 3060 and 3070 ...

 

[JCitron]

My computer is an ASUS Dash F15 series gaming laptop.

I do not know the temperature, but I can tell you it was very hot to the touch

I did not touch any developer settings at all.

It could also be that your GPU is flaky and the extra work by Trainz is causing the GPU to fail. I've seen this behavior before with both ancient video cards and modern ones alike. In the olden days we would heat the circuits with a heat gun to force a failure with marginal components when a report came in that the graphics was flaky. Sure enough, something was bad and one of the chips was marginal when warm.

I would contact support and have your laptop looked at. I've seen this before many times as a tech and not long ago with an older EVGA video card that I was able to replace at the time under warranty.

You may want to install or check hardware monitoring software. ASUS has one for their hardware but if they don't you can always use MSI Afterburner.

Afterburner

MSI Afterburner is the world’s most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility. It provides detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features like customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording.

us.msi.com

 

[reginaldfan1]

It could also be that your GPU is flaky and the extra work by Trainz is causing the GPU to fail. I've seen this behavior before with both ancient video cards and modern ones alike. In the olden days we would heat the circuits with a heat gun to force a failure with marginal components when a report came in that the graphics was flaky. Sure enough, something was bad and one of the chips was marginal when warm.

I would contact support and have your laptop looked at. I've seen this before many times as a tech and not long ago with an older EVGA video card that I was able to replace at the time under warranty.

You may want to install or check hardware monitoring software. ASUS has one for their hardware but if they don't you can always use MSI Afterburner.

Afterburner

MSI Afterburner is the world’s most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking utility. It provides detailed overview of your hardware and comes with some additional features like customizing fan profiles, benchmarking and video recording.

us.msi.com

Thank you for the help, I will come back here to report what happens.