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I paid about $60 bucks for nothing but a headache! I have had this TRS 2006 for about 3 years now, and I haven't even gotten to play the stupid thing. I have never been able to download anything @ all, I get an error message every time I click on something, I can't connect to the download station in my browser or in the useless CMP, and after paying $60 you have to then pay for a subscription to download content that doesn't even work, that should be included for that much $ anyway, I have 2 very high end gaming pc's, one with XP and the other with WIN 7 x64 and it's like trying to game on one of the first Gateway computers that came on the market, and that's bad, I've read every troubleshooting forum I've set everything to open with admin privileges and there's always another brick wall to contend with, you spend so much time trying to get the damn thing working that, when you do get it going "which I never have" you're so disgusted with it that you don't even want to see it, nothing on the auran website makes any sense or works, I've never seen so many dead end links and shortcuts,

everyone should have at least 2 copies of Trainz,
ONE TO **** ON AND ONE TO COVER IT UP WITH!
 
Blue & Red italicized type ... Very hard on the eye

04/06 needs a manditory FCT in order to download from the DLS ... have you read up on the TRS2004/TRS2006 unsupport in Sept 2010 ?

If you buy 09/10, you need to update with service pack SP's

Trainz is not a Plug & Play video game.
 
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Three years trying and only five posts, with your level of concern, I would have expected your post count to be much greater. Most people seem to get the help they want from the Help Desk or this forum.

Gutter level language, even if it is hidden by a row of ****, does not go down well on this forum.

Peter

Edit, I have just read through your previous posts and there was no mention of being unable to run TRS2006.
 
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Why not be more polite and post your specs. Let us know exactly what your problems are and we will see what help we can give you. It seems strange that you can't get it to work when everybody else can. Try using the search button and look through the forums for help topics.
 
Cue the Auran faithful. All they do is good, everyone else is just out to smear them. Server problems, someone else's fault. 2010, someone else's fault for not uploading right ten years ago. Never fault Auran for taking what they could get at the time.

You people are narrow minded. Getting scammed and accusing everyone else other than the mother ship's policies.

Beyond funny you are. And the list is long.
 
Not fair what they are doing to the third party that made this program great to begin with. Profit all these years then change the rules to profit from the same content again. City and Country will only be a 2010 route now.
 
Being Auran faithful has nothing to do with it. When there is an issue that can be reproduced by anyone then Auran gets taken to task like any other organization.

If someone doesn't know how to setup their machine to run Trainz, a friendly request for help gets a friendly response. :)

But when someone comes on with wild claims such as, nothing works, even with "very high-end" gaming machines, the impulse to help is faint to non-existent. Adding opinions like it sucks, it's useless, it's stupid doesn't help the case. :wave:

I guess all the people with more moderate machines who are busy with Trainz, shouldn't be. :)
 
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I just can't get over my luck, about ten years of playing Trainz, like seven different versions on at least four different computers, and I've never had a real problem...:eek:
 
martinvk said:
Being Auran faithful has nothing to do with it. When there is an issue that can be reproduced by anyone then Auran gets taken to task like any other organization.

If someone doesn't know how to setup their machine to run Trainz, a friendly request for help gets a friendly response. :)

But when someone comes on with wild claims such as, nothing works, even with "very high-end" gaming machines, the impulse to help is faint to non-existent. Adding opinions like it sucks, it's useless, it's stupid doesn't help the case. :wave:

I guess all the people with more moderate machines who are busy with Trainz, shouldn't be. :)
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So Auran's error checking of DLS content they rely on is the user and his machine's fault? My computer is why content is faulty? A new video card will get rid of those errors shown in CM? Get real.

Forgot, need to be build 2.7 or later now. Same old content with a 30 day warning to upgrade it or it will be upgraded for you. Same content, higher build number for access.
 
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The OP implies it's impossible to play Trainz, even on his fine gaming computers, my experience has been otherwise, even on my less than fine non gaming computers...
 
I'll repeat martins first line:-

Being Auran faithful has nothing to do with it.
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Auran have made and supplied a program. If, without any changes, it will run perfectly on machine A (most of them) and does not run on one individual machine B, why is this the fault of Auran. Program code can not change itself, therefore logic insists that the individual machine B is in some way the cause of the problem.

I had an experience of this with TRS2006. Nothing I could do would make CMP work for me so I stayed with TRS2004. I had a motherboard failure and replaced the CPu, motherboard and memory. Next time I tried CMP it was as meek as a kitten and could do no wrong. No re-installation of TRS2006 was involved, the original installation worked from then on.

Peter
 
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So Auran's error checking of DLS content they rely on is the user and his machine's fault? My computer is why content is faulty? A new video card will get rid of those errors shown in CM? Get real.
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You've got this wrong, Sparky. Sorry buddy.

The errors that show up in CM today were always there. The problem is two-fold. First the error-checking built into the earlier versions of Trainz was not as sophisticated as it is today, so many errors were able to sneak into the configuration files. TRS2004 and below would simply ignore the missing brackets, typos and other things, and insert default values for most errors. The problem is these errors made the program sluggish and unstable since the program had to parse through errors and horse the assets to work properly.

Secondly, The third-party content creators inocently copied the errors into their own content, or did not follow the forever elusive CCGs closely. Now they introduced other errors that needed to be fixed. In some cases, it's plain carelessness on the part of the content creator. I'm not blaming anyone in particular here, it's just that these typos, which are easy to fix, should have been caught in the beginning. No one is perfect and these things do happen. This is where the debugging, or error checking comes in.

Starting with TS2006, the standards, or error checking have been increasing. I remember seeing posts warning about this happening in the forums. I can't remember if this was the old forum or not.

Anyway, this has been a good thing, and has made the most recent versions of the program very stable when running in their native mode. When the program is set to run in compatibility mode, it runs sort of the way that TRS2004 did where it will parse over the errors and horse the around the content to make the assets work. This is why you see the lost performance in compatibility mode.

As far as the program its self. If your computer more than just meets the minimum requirements for the program, then there shouldn't be too much of a problem. The issue that comes up is people ignore the requirements, such as attempting to run the program on a machine with less than the minimum requirements, or totally do not meet them like trying to run it on a laptop with built in video using the Intel graphics chips.

John
 
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...A new video card will get rid of those errors shown in CM? Get real.
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See narrowgauge's issue and solution. New motherboard and problem solved. So your faulty hardware CAN be the cause of your problem.
Forgot, need to be build 2.7 or later now. Same old content with a 30 day warning to upgrade it or it will be upgraded for you. Same content, higher build number for access.
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What you describe is not an upgrade, it's just pretending by cheating the version number. A real upgrade will fix the underlying fault and then apply a new version number. :wave:
 
No John. The content worked all along. Auran allowed it. The problem is trying to save a buck by milking out a ten year old game engine.

All fault falls on Auran. They, who wrote the program, accepted it to fill the DLS and every box copy they sold with free content they didn't have to produce. No attempt was made to correct that content before being hosted on the DLS or passed to the consumer. I guess now you will say they are a small company and couldn't afford it.

Content with errors was uploaded. It was also allowed to be entered into the DLS and game by programers who knew better. Now, after the fact, they want it fixed because the new program flags those errors they allowed for so long. Tell me they didn't know this before releasing 2009/2010. And, they provided no way to ensure compatibility to the end user. How is it a creators fault when those in charge of this program allowed it?

Sorry bud.
 
martinvk said:
See narrowgauge's issue and solution. New motherboard and problem solved. So your faulty hardware CAN be the cause of your problem.
What you describe is not an upgrade, it's just pretending by cheating the version number. A real upgrade will fix the underlying fault and then apply a new version number. :wave:
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Will an upgrade in hardware solve a missing texture allowed by lax error checking?
 
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