Railworks America

So it seems I am one of a few that have come across this issue recently. Currently, my main issue is a crash at startup, specifically due to a "OUT OF MEMORY" error. This bout of crashing originally started a few weeks ago but as an intermittent crash while loading scenarios from the scenario editor and then progressed to a crash on startup not allowing me to get past "updating scenario database". Upon research finding out that the VRRUNTIME140.dll was most likely due to Microsoft Visuals C++ 2015 not being installed so I decided to install it.

After installing the Visuals C++ 2015 I was met with a different error at the same point on startup but this was an out of memory error which I have no clue why. I uninstalled C++ completely and started railworks and was back to square one with a crash on startup due to VCRUNTIME140.dll not being found.

I have just now reinstalled C++ and am right back to getting the out of memory. It now seems to me I am getting nowhere. any ideas on what in the world is going on here?


I have done some quick research and have tried a few things to resolve this issue myself. these solutions are as follows:

verifying game cache (I don't know why as this seems somewhat of a Microsoft issue)
completely (and painstakingly due to LOADS of 3rd party DLC I had to isolate) reinstall the game from scratch
manually repairing Microsoft visuals C++ 2015 X64 and X86
manually installing Microsoft visuals C++ 2015 X64 and X86

any ideas are appreciated as DTG seem to be overloaded with support tickets as I have not gotten a response back.

P.S. if this is in the wrong place let me know and I will move this to the appropriate place.

CSXK921 wrote:completely (and painstakingly due to LOADS of 3rd party DLC I had to isolate) reinstall the game from scratch

- Have you tried starting the game after reinstalling it but before reinstalling the DLC?
- Have you unsubscribed to all Workshop items before reinstalling the game?

In addition it might be a good idea to reinstall all compnents which are in the railworks install folder. I had a windows update some weeks ago and railworks did not work properly with frame rates of 7-8. Reinstalling helped!

My thoughts are that uninstalling your workshop items starting with the most recent a few at a time, or all at once may be a good start.Then retest.This would be much better than doing a complete reinstall. Do you have an older backup of your Railworks folder? You can start from the Railworks.exe and see what happens. I always keep backups of this folder for testing and if I screw up an installation of a reskin or sound file. External SSDs are cheap and easy to connect. This has saved me lots of grief.

Ok here is an update. It seems ,so far at least, things are fixed. I went through all my route folders and found 3 scenarios I missed.

thanks for the help everyone!