No trains in TS2010+SP1??

I have downloaded TS2010 last night and installed today onto a Win7 32 bit install. I installed SP1 over the top without running the game.

The game runs ok menus are all there, but attempting to start a session for one of the routes is like being in surveyor with bare landscape. Just the geography - no scenery, no trains, nothing. I can move around with the arrow keys just like surveyor and it redraws so it isn't dead... weird...

Additionally if I go into Railyard and select any asset from the list it just hangs then creates a crash report to go to Auran.

I've tried both the quick and extensive database repair with the same results.

TS2004/2006/2009 all run fine on this machine.

I've looked in the forums and couldn't find anything like this problem - anyone else experienced it?

It isn't a UAC problem - I've checked by running as admin.

I've resolved this by uninstall TS2010, reboot, install TS2010 run game including a session, reboot, install SP1, reboot, run game. Seems ok now.

I have found a new problem though - switching to external view when driving a loco hangs the game.

Good to see Auran's quality improving.

paulp said:

I've resolved this by uninstall TS2010, reboot, install TS2010 run game including a session, reboot, install SP1, reboot, run game. Seems ok now.

I have found a new problem though - switching to external view when driving a loco hangs the game.

Good to see Auran's quality improving.

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If it were Auran's quality, then everyone would have the same issue. It may be video drivers that need updating, or try switching between OpenGL and DirectX in options.

knight42 said:

If it were Auran's quality, then everyone would have the same issue. It may be video drivers that need updating, or try switching between OpenGL and DirectX in options.

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Not necesarily - how many different machine configurations are out there with TS2010 (or an earlier version) installed? I'm betting on thousands. All of my drivers are up to date. Interestingly if I wait long enough (5 minutes) I've discovered it will *eventually* render the new scene only to hang again before rendering the next one (again 5 minutes).

I cannot see this being the video card given it is a GeForce 9800GTX+ with 2GB of RAM on it. Resource monitor shows that the machine is not starving - plenty of the four cores available - the disk is hardly moving and loads of free memory - so exactly what is it doing?

Problem is the same DirectX/OpenGL doesn't make any difference.

There is nothing else running while I play trainz - the machine is running nice and cool and the power supply is serious overkill 1200 watts so there are no dramas there.

I have discovered it does not do it on all routes - only routes with caternary.

The issues I (and others, reading the forums) find are definately quality issues - bring on SP2.

The issues I (and others, reading the forums) find are definately quality issues - bring on SP2.

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On the other hand, TS'10 + SP1 works fine on my system, right out of the box, and I don't experience any of the problems you mention. I find it difficult to feel Auran's development processes are at fault.

I have the same card and a core 2 duo proc.( see my specs. below) and everything runs fine. John.

ps. I have 4 gig of ram, soon to be upped to 8 gig as I have 64 bit OS.

wmmeyer said:

On the other hand, TS'10 + SP1 works fine on my system, right out of the box, and I don't experience any of the problems you mention. I find it difficult to feel Auran's development processes are at fault.

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Same here, I have had virtually no issues with 2010.

paulp said:

I've resolved this by uninstall TS2010, reboot, install
I have found a new problem though - switching to external view when driving a loco hangs the game.

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I have the same problem although TRAINZ only hangs for 15-30 seconds. Does it really take that long to process the scenery?
My machine might be a little underpowered with a 3.0 GHz dual process, a nVidia 9600GT with 256 MB and Windows XP.
And I had a problem with scenery redraw in 2009 attributed to "speed grass". Hope "speed trees" don't cause a similar problem.

could he need to up grade direct x or up grade open gl