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I seem to be having a devil of a time using the track height adjustment tool. Just about every time I use it, the program crashes. It crashes in such a way that I have to reboot the computer to fix it. CTRL+Alt+Delete won't even work to shut Railworks down. It a complete computer lock up. Other then this issue I seem to have no other problems using Railworks what so ever. Today I spent more time re-booting my computer then track building. Can somebody tell me what might be happening and possible ways to fix or work around the problem?

BDWorkshop wrote:I seem to be having a devil of a time using the track height adjustment tool. Just about every time I use it, the program crashes. It crashes in such a way that I have to reboot the computer to fix it. CTRL+Alt+Delete won't even work to shut Railworks down. It a complete computer lock up. Other then this issue I seem to have no other problems using Railworks what so ever. Today I spent more time re-booting my computer then track building. Can somebody tell me what might be happening and possible ways to fix or work around the problem?

I'll back you up that this has happened to me as well, but not with any pattern or consistency that I can determine.

Does it seem to crash when you are adjusting the end of a track segment, the middle, or both?

I haven't seen an issue with this since the days of RS. It might be that the problem lies elsewhere. Try making a temp route with only a few sections of track to test.

BoostedFridge wrote:

BDWorkshop wrote:I seem to be having a devil of a time using the track height adjustment tool. Just about every time I use it, the program crashes. It crashes in such a way that I have to reboot the computer to fix it. CTRL+Alt+Delete won't even work to shut Railworks down. It a complete computer lock up. Other then this issue I seem to have no other problems using Railworks what so ever. Today I spent more time re-booting my computer then track building. Can somebody tell me what might be happening and possible ways to fix or work around the problem?

I'll back you up that this has happened to me as well, but not with any pattern or consistency that I can determine.

Does it seem to crash when you are adjusting the end of a track segment, the middle, or both?

From what I can see it crashes while moving both middle and ends. I don't think it's my computer...at least not directly. This computer was built with running these simulators in mind. I did try to move the setting down but still got the same crashing.

I was having the same problem a while back. Do you happen to have an Nvidia video card?

bh762 wrote:I was having the same problem a while back. Do you happen to have an Nvidia video card?

Yes I do...a Nvidia GeForce GTX 980. Is there a fix?

Try a clean install of an older driver. I'm using 347.88, and it seems to have fixed the problem. The newer drivers (35x) were causing the problem you described, as well as crashes while building consists in the scenario editor. I believe there was a thread on this forum or on the steam forums that went into greater detail as to why the new drivers were causing these issues. Hope this helps.

bh762 wrote:Try a clean install of an older driver. I'm using 347.88, and it seems to have fixed the problem. The newer drivers (35x) were causing the problem you described, as well as crashes while building consists in the scenario editor. I believe there was a thread on this forum or on the steam forums that went into greater detail as to why the new drivers were causing these issues. Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll look into this. I've always kept my drivers up to date and I believe the current version is 359.06. I'm guessing that keeping up to date on your graphic drivers in not necessarily a good thing.

bh762 wrote:Try a clean install of an older driver. I'm using 347.88, and it seems to have fixed the problem. The newer drivers (35x) were causing the problem you described, as well as crashes while building consists in the scenario editor. I believe there was a thread on this forum or on the steam forums that went into greater detail as to why the new drivers were causing these issues. Hope this helps.

I finally got around to trying installing the older driver that you suggested. Unfortunately it didn't help with the problem. Within a few seconds of using the height adjustment tool, I got the same crash.