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Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:46 am
by dtrainBNSF1
I have no idea why but just within the last week the consist editor has been causing the game to crash when I place anything in the consist. When I set down a piece of rolling stock I get a blank box where the stock should be with the blue loading circle for longer than usual and then I get a notification that Railworks.exe has stopped working correctly.
I would like to know if anyone else has started having this issue with their copy of Train Simulator as of late?

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:07 am
by buzz456
No. You have some other problem. Start with a verify.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:43 am
by dtrainBNSF1
Okay. Will do.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:47 am
by dtrainBNSF1
Just verified the game cache. 1280 assets failed to initialize! I've never seen a number that high when verifying the cache.
Well this'll take all day to redownload. There goes a day's worth of work. *!sad!*

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:25 am
by artimrj
dtrainBNSF1 wrote:Just verified the game cache. 1280 assets failed to initialize! I've never seen a number that high when verifying the cache.
Well this'll take all day to redownload. There goes a day's worth of work. *!sad!*


All day for 1280 assets?? What kind of connection do you have? I can dl a 30 gig game in less than an hour.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:43 pm
by dtrainBNSF1
Depends on what part of the house I'm in. When I've done a full re-install it takes all day. Somehow today it actually took a couple of hours.

I still have bad news, I'm afraid. The consist editor is still crashing. It's no real biggy for me - I barely use it anyway.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:00 am
by Overshoe
I suspect your problem may be the stock you are trying to load and not the consist editor. Can you tell me what item (or 2-3 items) are causing the problem?

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:41 pm
by dtrainBNSF1
The most recently with the UP F7 that came with Cajon Pass. I feel bad for saying this, but it happened first with the FEF-3 in Overland livery. Let me try with something completely different and see if it's a consistent problem.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 2:02 pm
by dtrainBNSF1
Just tried it by selecting the Tornado A1 locomotive. Crashed the editor again. Quite a mystery on my end *!sad!*

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:56 pm
by Ericmopar
When you say Consist Editor, do you mean the one for Quick Drive? I have problems editing in that one. It locks up frequently.
I haven't had the regular scenario or route editors crash but have had them mysteriously delete consists for no apparent reason.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:10 pm
by buzz456
I never have these problems. What sort of gremlins are running around in your computers?

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:31 pm
by dtrainBNSF1
Ericmopar wrote:When you say Consist Editor, do you mean the one for Quick Drive? I have problems editing in that one. It locks up frequently.
I haven't had the regular scenario or route editors crash but have had them mysteriously delete consists for no apparent reason.


Yes, I mean the one for quick drive.

buzz456 wrote:I never have these problems. What sort of gremlins are running around in your computers?


Well that certainly is the question. I'm not exactly sure where to begin looking for answers. !*don-know!* I'm convinced because of past experience that DTG tech support more than likely will not be of much help. **!!bang!!**

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:29 am
by Overshoe
dtrainBNSF1 wrote:The most recently with the UP F7 that came with Cajon Pass. I feel bad for saying this, but it happened first with the FEF-3 in Overland livery. Let me try with something completely different and see if it's a consistent problem.


I don't have the FEF-3 yet but I'll test the other two in the morning and see if they work for me.

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:54 pm
by mrennie
dtrainBNSF1 wrote:Just verified the game cache. 1280 assets failed to initialize! I've never seen a number that high when verifying the cache.
Well this'll take all day to redownload. There goes a day's worth of work. *!sad!*


Every time I do a verify cache after playing the game, it says 4000+ files need to be re-acquired.

EDIT: Did a verify just now and it said 4023 files, 72.0 MB

Re: Consist editor is crashing

Unread postPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:11 pm
by dtrainBNSF1
I guess that's not too unusual to see a constant number of files missing during verifies.

I'd like to go on record saying that I do not believe the FEF-3 repaint has anything to do with this recent development. The editor's freezing on all stock in the consist editor.