Please let me explain, I have TS12 61388 (among another version with a different serial number) installed on two different PCs which do not normally connect to the Internet. For the last 2 days when starting TS12 on either offline PC, they refuse to start up but will do so when going online and connecting to the N3V server. When I get the startup screen, in 'options"/"display options" the screen resolution is reset to 1024x674 (I always run 1980x900 in the past) and DirX is reset to Open GL. My username, serial number and passwords are OK, as taddeamon tells me: "Logged on successfully to N3V's server and validated" or such cr@p. I never had these above settings on my TS12, why the blazes is TS12 doing all of a sudden doing this.
Both TS12s versions before that were working as they should for some months without having to be online and to be getting validated. Then, as said, some months ago when ALL previous was working offline as this should be for at least one plus years, I had a similar problem with TS12 61388, where I had to briefly go online to register and validate something else, not related to Trainz, a simple program I had just installed WITHOUT me even touching anything remotely of Trainz/TS12. I think something from N3V's side COULD/MUST HAVE installed something automatically (DRM checks?) in TS12 as then I had to go through the same bl**dy routine of being online all the time if I wanted to use TS12. I use both versions of TS12 ONLY for testing my created content, nothing else, hence NO need to ever update any bl**dy content for it. All else that needs not to go out or phone home is blocked in my firewall, only the trainz.exe, all taddeamons jumping up (at least 2, sometimes 3 of them at the same time), the trainz utility and one or two more Trainz related tasks are allowed to go through my firewall when going online. In other words, all Trainz related tasks are allowed onto the Internet.
I have bought several tin can/cookie tin versions of TS12, which are DRM FREE, (always have been, always are) and have at least 2 of these TS12 versions 61388 with different serial numbers installed on 2 different offline PCs and all were working previous OK when offline. Only as said, some 3 months or so this all started to play up with my 2 different installed TS12 61388 settings. It was around at the time when N3V was messing with DRM introduction and then taking these DRM checking code away again, after so many people had complained.
Does anyone know where TS12 is saving the above display options? As on a restart of TS12, as said, I again have these display settings in "options"/"display options" the screen resolution reset to 1024x674 (I always run 1980x900 in the present and in past) and DirX is reset to Open GL. My username, serial number and passwords are OK, as taddeamon tells me: "Logged on successfully to N3V's server and validated" or such cr@p. I have a userdata folder in each of the above TS12 folders on the 2 different PCs, logically in there this would be saved but I could not find anything resembling this saving. In the olden days one had at least a "Trainz Option" text file to set such simple things but N3V in their wisdom (or stupidity, take your pick) changed all that.
What is going on here, as I only want to reinstall TS12 again with ALL its usually f*%^ups and then reinstalling all the cumbersome patches and hotfixes again. Why oh why does tadddeamon every time when being offline trying to do its infernal checking and then possibly/sometimes doing a data repair again and again and again, although I HAVEN"T INSTALLED ANYTHING from the DLS. As last night (some 20 hours ago before the servers went down) I was babysitting this sh!t to go through its checking for deleted folders, validating some (thank god) only 5000 or so assets and finishing its saving of the database. This was working then but as soon as I restarted the PC offline, a start up of TS12 repeated the same data repair to get TS12 restarted online again. Only, again, by going online and seeing all is getting validated and logged in OK but as said, going offline after switching TS12 off and starting again it offlne, it refused to do this time and time again.
I hope someone please can answer these questions and I am thankful for any help.
These trials and tribulations of having to go online every time with a DRM FREE VERSION of TS12 to start it up makes me so worked up, I would like to take a sledgehammer and smash and break all my Trainz DVDs and send them back to N3V to stick these to them where the sun don't shine. Never has any other "game" (what game?) frustrated me so much as this one now does. And now we have TANE but this is for another time.
I have a feeling, NO ONE from N3V will reply here to this post.
Thank you again for any help or explanation why this is going on for me. Does anyone else experience something similar?.
VinnyBarb
Both TS12s versions before that were working as they should for some months without having to be online and to be getting validated. Then, as said, some months ago when ALL previous was working offline as this should be for at least one plus years, I had a similar problem with TS12 61388, where I had to briefly go online to register and validate something else, not related to Trainz, a simple program I had just installed WITHOUT me even touching anything remotely of Trainz/TS12. I think something from N3V's side COULD/MUST HAVE installed something automatically (DRM checks?) in TS12 as then I had to go through the same bl**dy routine of being online all the time if I wanted to use TS12. I use both versions of TS12 ONLY for testing my created content, nothing else, hence NO need to ever update any bl**dy content for it. All else that needs not to go out or phone home is blocked in my firewall, only the trainz.exe, all taddeamons jumping up (at least 2, sometimes 3 of them at the same time), the trainz utility and one or two more Trainz related tasks are allowed to go through my firewall when going online. In other words, all Trainz related tasks are allowed onto the Internet.
I have bought several tin can/cookie tin versions of TS12, which are DRM FREE, (always have been, always are) and have at least 2 of these TS12 versions 61388 with different serial numbers installed on 2 different offline PCs and all were working previous OK when offline. Only as said, some 3 months or so this all started to play up with my 2 different installed TS12 61388 settings. It was around at the time when N3V was messing with DRM introduction and then taking these DRM checking code away again, after so many people had complained.
Does anyone know where TS12 is saving the above display options? As on a restart of TS12, as said, I again have these display settings in "options"/"display options" the screen resolution reset to 1024x674 (I always run 1980x900 in the present and in past) and DirX is reset to Open GL. My username, serial number and passwords are OK, as taddeamon tells me: "Logged on successfully to N3V's server and validated" or such cr@p. I have a userdata folder in each of the above TS12 folders on the 2 different PCs, logically in there this would be saved but I could not find anything resembling this saving. In the olden days one had at least a "Trainz Option" text file to set such simple things but N3V in their wisdom (or stupidity, take your pick) changed all that.
What is going on here, as I only want to reinstall TS12 again with ALL its usually f*%^ups and then reinstalling all the cumbersome patches and hotfixes again. Why oh why does tadddeamon every time when being offline trying to do its infernal checking and then possibly/sometimes doing a data repair again and again and again, although I HAVEN"T INSTALLED ANYTHING from the DLS. As last night (some 20 hours ago before the servers went down) I was babysitting this sh!t to go through its checking for deleted folders, validating some (thank god) only 5000 or so assets and finishing its saving of the database. This was working then but as soon as I restarted the PC offline, a start up of TS12 repeated the same data repair to get TS12 restarted online again. Only, again, by going online and seeing all is getting validated and logged in OK but as said, going offline after switching TS12 off and starting again it offlne, it refused to do this time and time again.
I hope someone please can answer these questions and I am thankful for any help.
These trials and tribulations of having to go online every time with a DRM FREE VERSION of TS12 to start it up makes me so worked up, I would like to take a sledgehammer and smash and break all my Trainz DVDs and send them back to N3V to stick these to them where the sun don't shine. Never has any other "game" (what game?) frustrated me so much as this one now does. And now we have TANE but this is for another time.
I have a feeling, NO ONE from N3V will reply here to this post.
Thank you again for any help or explanation why this is going on for me. Does anyone else experience something similar?.
VinnyBarb
