Railworks America

So, I downloaded the big boy fix and applied it this morning, an then started railworks.. This is what i get. Gotta admit, i'm a bit perplexed..

Awesome. Apparently it turns the Big Boy into a portal to an alternate universe. That's quite an enhancement. I wish I had purchased the BB.

If I am not mistaken, I saw this before, right before someone's video board died or power supply died. I have also seen posts claiming the video was overheating when this happens.

The majority of artifacts are caused by overheating. However, in some cases the graphics card is trying to display something that's corrupted whether it be a driver issue or a programming issue. Are you having any issues with any other games? Is this only occurring when the Big Boy is on screen? What if you look away from the Big Boy model, does the issue disappear? What operating system are you running and what's the graphics card (is it on-board or dedicated)?

I happend to me 4 weeks ago when I tried to run SD75, after 16 hours doing everything you can imagine casually after I reinstalled vcredist, the video card (an old 9500GT) worked one week and then same problem again. More 16 hours but at this time I didn'd get it fixed.
Then I noticed is only with (say) new TS2012 engines (maybe they have some new graphics features which has broken on card), I can play all RW2 engines with no problem, is weird, isn't? Look like a hardware main failure, and I'll be sure....
My new Video Card, an GTX460, has arrived (thanks so much Peter Hayes and Vasco! ) but missing now a 600W PSU, which will arrive at home only on fryday!

Wow, Pam, could be a lot of things. Could be a driver issue, a card going bad, or just a corrupt download. The BB fix works great for me. I have a GTX560Ti on Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and the last drivers, not the 301's.

i did a lil more investigation. I could load a newer scenario which starts further up the hill, and then fly back to the beginning of the main freeroam scenario which is complete except for the trains, and theres no problem. I can also load the big boy with no problem ( but i still cant get it over 24 mph, even when not towing anything ).
My suspicion is that one of the trains in the main freeroam scenario is corrupting the scenario. Specifically, that 60 car experiment i built a few days ago for testing the track. I'll try deleting the scenario and recreate it, and see if that helps..
Pretty impressive looking modern art though..

Pam
I have just downloaded London to Brighton and am getting the same "picasso" effect as you on one machine but not on the other. No overheating issues. I am only having this issue with this route/scenario all the others load successfully and run fine. Did you ever solve this? (Are you using nvidia drivers by any chance? On the machine that doesn't work I am using the 301.xx drivers but on the other I am using the 296.xx series.)
It's a mystery.
Regards
PeterH

Hi all!

Peter Hayes has PM'd me and told that removed the -DontUseBluePrintCache from the command line (apparently some RSC stuff does require the cache to load correctly) and if it can't use the cache it will not load. That fixed his issue. And mine also, wasn't a video card nor drivers problem at all, new engines weren't working anymore suddenly since 3 weeks ago, but I was using that command line flawlessly since 3 months ago! Go figure!

Check if this is your case also...

Cheers,
Doc.

I too had problems loading scenarios from Barstow-San Bern routes and I removed the -DontUseBluePrintCache from the command line, and now these work AOK
Paul

looks like i may have some memory issues as well going on. Other games crash for no reason some programs wont start and four gigs are taking 40 minutes to copy from one directory to another on the same drive. Theres no space issues to support that kind of slowness either.. ::sigh:: hate to say it but i think my little wonder machine is heading south on me.
I'll remove the -dontuseblueprintcache thing as well..
Thanks Guys..

Pam - Have you defragged your hard drive lately? Of course, if you're running Win 7, it's my understanding that Win 7 doesn't need defragging like earlier OS's did.

Have you cleaned out all the junk files lately? For this I would recommend CCleaner. You may be surprised in the speed you might gain by simply cleaning out all the junk.

I reinstall Windows about every year. Ed, Win 7 does need a constant defrag, but if left to default settings, it does it automatically once a week. I turned mine off, I use "Defraggler" http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download Works a lot faster than Windows defrag, and works just as good.

Pam, if you want to reinstall or do a repair of Windows, PM me, I can step you thru it. But, like Hawk said, clean up your hard drive, get rid of stuff you don't use any more. CCleaner is an excellent tool. I use it weekly, along with Malwarebytes. Avast! is always online, too.

arizonachris wrote:I reinstall Windows about every year. Ed,

I do that also, but this last time I waited a bit longer before the reformat and reinstall of the OS. I think it was about 2 years.

arizonachris wrote:Win 7 does need a constant defrag, but if left to default settings, it does it automatically once a week. I turned mine off, I use "Defraggler" http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download Works a lot faster than Windows defrag, and works just as good.

I guess that's what I read as opposed to Win 7 not needing to be defragged. I'm still a dinosaur and run XP.
I have tried Prirform's defraggler, but I haven't installed it yet on this new OS install. Thanks for reminding me.

To be honest, I never defrag the hard drives. theres 2.5 terrabyte of data on them and defragging would take days. With the number of things i'm involved in ( flight dynamics development, sci fi writing, Peer center records, railworks and much more ) I cant afford to be down for the three days it would take to defrag..