Railworks America

So on the menu when I click on costume it loads and on 19% is freezes and crashes

My recipe for no crash unless you have corrupted files, particularly those in the Content root folder. This bad working sub-program loads all rolling stock assets you have in your Railworks:

1) Clear cache.
2) Restart TS.
3) Go to profile page and page through your locos and routes waiting for the portraits to load.
4) Then BEFORE trying to make a custom consist choose any preset consist and start a quick drive
scenario.
5) Once loaded quit the QD scenario, then try to make a custom consist.

The first index (loading) takes a long time, but subsequently goes quicker.
After that no crashes, unless you have some damaged rolling stock.
Be patient loading every item graphics. If the car or loco starts circling with no image, scroll left ot right
and it will load.
I make several consists in the same session.
Every time you restart the game, and want to make custom consists, it is advisable to repeat the procedure.

Tried that, didnt works.

Maybe you should try custom instead of costume?

buzz456 wrote:Maybe you should try custom instead of costume?

I know you are not a good customer of this editor

PNWR1854 wrote:Tried that, didnt works.

It has worked 100% in my case except once I caught the ConsistTemplates.bin (in Content root) with some corruption.
Maybe you have a corrupt ConsistTemplates.bin (it can crash before or after you get 100% of assets read).
Maybe it is only some bad rolling stock. In this case you could try another consist that does not include the wagons or locos you used when it crashed (like a Europe consist).
An important point to get in consideration is being patient placing the wagons and locos.

I have had this issue and it turned out to be a corrupted file. Go to your railworks folder and find logmate.exe. open logmate then start your custom consist editor. When the file dumps the last few lines of the log will tell where the corrupt file is if this is your issue.

AmericanSteam wrote:I have had this issue and it turned out to be a corrupted file. Go to your railworks folder and find logmate.exe. open logmate then start your custom consist editor. When the file dumps the last few lines of the log will tell where the corrupt file is if this is your issue.

Good point

[highlight=][highlight=][/highlight][/highlight]I have the same problem on occasion Logmate gave me this error { RailNetwork\Track Rules\PONtrack.bin }but where do I find the file to delete or correct.
Thanks in advance
Pete

The PONTrack.bin is your issue. Use the search function at the upper right corner and you will find an answer on how to delete this file. There is an answer here: http://railworksamerica.com/index.php/r ... _railworks
In the creators edition you can no longer open a run command window you can open a powershell window. Run this command: del PONTrack.bin
mind the spacing and capitol letters.

Thanks that worked well. I used Glary Utilities to find and delete the files. I had previously deleted all the PONtrack files but I guess they sneak in with other downloads. I guess I need to search an destroy them occasionally as a maintenance routine.

Thanks again

You can automate it so that after running TS2018, any PONtrack.bin file is deleted.
One easy way is to write a batch (script) file and have a shortcut run the batch file.

I just build trains in the scenario editor. Now i can't play that consist on say a quick drive, but I only play free roam.

What is the correct format for creating the delete PONTrack.bin batch file?

Create a new text file in your Railworks folder.
Inside, put this text:

del /S PONtrack.bin
'Note: that's a capital "O", not a zero.

Save it, then rename it something like DELPONTRACK.BAT