Uh Oh.

[Bill522]

I decided to download the SP3 patch rather than wait for the automatic patching. The download went fine. I tried to turn off my Norton antivirus stuff since I have read its a good idea to do that before installing things.
I started the installation procedure and was about half way through when I nocticed that Norton was doing a disk scan in the background and I also noticed the the installation seemed to be not moving so I decided to cancel the installation, which I did.
I started all over again. I even re-downloaded the patch. When I tried to install the patch again I get this message: "This patch is not applicable to your current installation version. No valid patch operation was specified. Patching aborted."

I apparently did something wrong. Is there anything I can do to start over (without having to delete TS2010 and SP1 and SP2 and start all over again?)

My current version indicates 42203 and that is the one I downloaded to get the SP3.

HELP???

Bill522

 

[raildumper]

I decided to cancel the installation, which I did.
I apparently did something wrong.
Bill522

Hi,

Never ever interrupt patching of Trainz, it will mess everything up. I patched to SP3 with no problems, you just have to be patient, it can take quite a while. I'm afraid you'll have to reinstall Trainz again and apply all patches.

Greetings

 

[Guy_Wood]

I am not sure this product is ready for prime time. I have attempted to install SP3 twice, the second time using clean install. Both patches ran for over 2 hours with no visable progress for an hour and a half after the half way mark.

 

[Stagefright]

I am not sure this product is ready for prime time. I have attempted to install SP3 twice, the second time using clean install. Both patches ran for over 2 hours with no visable progress for an hour and a half after the half way mark.

Patience, young padowan. My SP3 install took about 2.5 hours despite a decent pc (sig). It appeared frozen halfway through; it was 'stuck' at about 50% for a very long time. All is well in the long run.

@Bill522: Raildumper is correct. Recommend reinstallation.

darrel

 

[NICKEL]

The SP3 patch is fixing a lot of builtin assets. The bar stops at the 50% mark when it has done 1.ja file. There are 7 more to do. Each file can take from 8 to 15 minutes to patch. If you want to see what is going on then go to your trainz directory and then into the builtin directory. You can watch the fie=les being changed there. Takes anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 hours formost people.

You have to relax.

 

[Paul_Bert]

My experience is that the patch can take well over three hours. Sometimes it looks like it is hung up and doing nothing, but it is. Just leave well enough alone and it will eventually complete the update.

 

[Bill522]

Thanks for the responses.

I took your suggestions and re-installed everything and now I will try again to install SP3.

But this time I will walk away from the computer for a few hours so I am not tempted to press any buttons prematurely.

 

[ShadyCadence]

Sounds like starting the update and then going to work was the right idea!

(eventually, even a blind dog finds a bone:hehe: )

 

[Bill522]

Everything turned out okay this time around.
It took approx 1 hr and 20 minutes which also included the asset rebuild time.

Thanks all.

 

[sniper297]

About 2 hours including download time, dunno about the asset rebuild since I launched content manager to see what files have been changed. That was 15 minutes ago, but I figure that's why Solitaire was included with Windows in the first place. :hehe:

 

[JCitron]

That's why I go to bed and let the PC do its thing overnight. I think part of this has to do with the installer decompressing the files as it copies over the installed ones.

John

 

[clam1952]

Failure here, first attempt aborted as CCP.exe is damaged................. strange as it still works ok, second attempt patch now not applicable to my version, going to reinstall over the weekend and yes I had backed up first. Having a bad week here, motherboard died in the PC I use for everything else not game related, just fixed that and now this patch problem grrrr... Would be a good idea if when these patches fail they return things to pre patch state..... it had changed trainz.exe which is why it won't play now.

 

[Mart1001]

Failure here, first attempt aborted as CCP.exe is damaged................. strange as it still works ok, second attempt patch now not applicable to my version, going to reinstall over the weekend and yes I had backed up first. Having a bad week here, motherboard died in the PC I use for everything else not game related, just fixed that and now this patch problem grrrr... Would be a good idea if when these patches fail they return things to pre patch state..... it had changed trainz.exe which is why it won't play now.

Hmm...wonder if it's worth making a copy of trainz.exe before attempting a patch up. I think I'll backup the complete trainz folder rather than just the user before I try.

 

[JCitron]

No problem with the patch. The process didn't take as long as SP2 - probably 90 minutes. I didn't pay too much attention to it because I was doing other things away from the piano.

I also defragged my system recently, and have plenty of disk space. That may of helped as well.

John

 

[pommie]

First an explanation, I use Ubuntu/Wine, I only use 2 windows programs, Anyrail and Trains (when I can)

Plain 09, installs ok but does not work "ah well"
when sp1 came out, tried again, sp1 took 36 hours but 09 ran
Sp2 came out, reinstall 09, apply sp1 (36 hours again) apply sp2 somewhere between 50~56hours, I was sleeping when it finished, didn't work :'( ,repeated the process to be sure, still didn't work.
Using the time other people have had as a guide sp3 should take around the same as sp2.
Now I am using 'Ubuntu 10.1 Alpha2' and Wine 1.2 dev, should I spend the next 140 hours or so, to find out if 09 will work at the end, or should I just install 06 which kinda works and be done with it.

If Auran could make Trainz work under Linux/wine it would also work under Apple/Linux/wine, grabbing the rest of the market share that prefer other OS's than Windows.

Cheers David (who is a glutton for punishment)

EDIT, just realized that this is a patch for 10 not 09, ah well.