Problems running TS 2013

[LandN]

Well, I'm about to chuck TS 2013 in the trash and go back to MSTS. I have had a lot of problems with routes not loading and when they do load, scenarios freezing up. I just bought Marias Pass hoping that it would work. Ran the first 2 scenarios (BN & BNSF engineer training) and they worked fine. Tried the next two on the list and they wouldn't load. Decided to try a Quick Drive to see what would happen. Guess what, it loaded and I was off on a trip from Shelby to Whitefish. All is well?
Wrong, I got to Cut Bank and it froze up and wouldn't restart.

[Chacal]

Besides the obvious, like reinstalling Railworks completely,
you should check your internal temperatures (CPU, video card, etc).

Computers freezing up while running heavy loads often have a temperature problem.

[buzz456]

You may decide to chuck RW2013 however please don't blame the game. It runs just fine for plenty of us and I don't think we should leave the impression that the game is flawed. Admittedly it takes a fairly nice computer to fully use everything but if you don't have that you just need to dial down the graphics. I have well south of a thousand dollars, including that it's liquid cooled and can run RW with everything wide open and I can't remember the last time I had a crash while running a scenario. My computer is home made but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a box nowadays.

[Chacal]

Actually I believe if you let a rocket scientist build a computer the results will be disastrous.



Back on topic, most likely you have some corrupted 3rd-party files.

I would delete the whole Railworks folder (after taking a backup) and let Steam reinstall from scratch. It may take a day or two but it is the way to be sure. This will give you a clean install, without any 3rd-party stuff.

Then you should make a backup of this clean install, so that you can always roll back to it if other problems happen.

Finally you can start adding your 3rd-party routes and assets back.

[buzz456]

One at a time so you can determine which one is causing your problem.