3rd Prty Routes Won't Load

[optimizer]

By the way, thanks a million to whoever came up with the solution to this problem.

[optimizer]

What in the world is the PONtrack .bin anyway?

I think it has to do with Jim Ward's Port Ogden To Chicago route over at Train Sim.com. It is a fantastic route and that is the tracks bin it uses.

Are you saying that Jim Ward's route could be messing up Railworks?

[krellnut]

No I'm not. I'm saying that's what his route is named, and that was the tracks bin for the route. Why its causing problems on other routes is confusing, to say the least.

[arizonachris]

Otto had posted a while back on the Steam/ Railworks Forum that somehow this file was used by RSC, mistake or otherwise, and that's why it is causing all these problems.

[jonmorrie]

Just to revive an old thread...

I just installed the Connellsville to Baltimore and I appear to be having the same issue; I try to load, but the second I load into the editor, the screen is black and I can see the flyout windows, but the game crashes and I see the dump file saved. So went in to the command prompt and did what was instructed previously, except it says it can't find the file. I even navigated to Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Railworks and did the command, but nothing. I now don't know what to do!

[buzz456]

Just to revive an old thread...

I just installed the Connellsville to Baltimore and I appear to be having the same issue; I try to load, but the second I load into the editor, the screen is black and I can see the flyout windows, but the game crashes and I see the dump file saved. So went in to the command prompt and did what was instructed previously, except it says it can't find the file. I even navigated to Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Railworks and did the command, but nothing. I now don't know what to do!

Go here read this and then carefully do what he says to do. This route has a lot of junk associated with it and after you run Bob's tutorial this may fix your problem hopefully.

http://railworksamerica.com/index.php/l ... -in-ts2013

[jonmorrie]

Just to revive an old thread...

I just installed the Connellsville to Baltimore and I appear to be having the same issue; I try to load, but the second I load into the editor, the screen is black and I can see the flyout windows, but the game crashes and I see the dump file saved. So went in to the command prompt and did what was instructed previously, except it says it can't find the file. I even navigated to Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Railworks and did the command, but nothing. I now don't know what to do!

Go here read this and then carefully do what he says to do. This route has a lot of junk associated with it and after you run Bob's tutorial this may fix your problem hopefully.

http://railworksamerica.com/index.php/l ... -in-ts2013

Didn't seem to fix anything. I did however notice that in the route details, it refers to xml files that upon my investigation, do not exist. e.g. Spring Sky: || Kuju || RailSimulatorCore ||TimeOfDay\Default.xml

I only have .bin files in these folders; no xml files.

[buzz456]

That's not your problem. I presume you have searched your system for the PON track file. This thing does load for me by the way, at least it did the last time I did it. What version do you have?

[buzz456]

You say it didn't fix anything. You did get the notice that your files for this route have been updated right?

[jonmorrie]

That's not your problem. I presume you have searched your system for the PON track file. This thing does load for me by the way, at least it did the last time I did it. What version do you have?

Yes, here's my attempt at deleting PONtrack:
Once from my user account path:


And once in my Railworks directory:


It says RouteProperties.xml or whatever it is has been updated after I fix the P/P.

I have v9 of the route.

[buzz456]

The latest version is ver11. I suggest you delete the one you have and load up the latest one. Some of them had some issues I believe and I know this one runs OK.

[jonmorrie]

The latest version is ver11. I suggest you delete the one you have and load up the latest one. Some of them had some issues I believe and I know this one runs OK.

Problem is, this same thing happens with C&O and other 3rd party routes. Only one that seems exempt is Ann Arbor, and when I load in, I have no ground textures or tracks. But that's not even relevant. All I'm saying, is that I feel as if it is possible it's not which version of the route it is. I am downloading the new one as we speak, however.

[buzz456]

If it's happening with all your routes you're right that's not the problem. If you want to fix this you'll have to find the thread on logmate and run it and see what's causing the crash. All you need is fire it up, it's in your RW folder and then start 2014. Wherever it stops will be where your problem is. I would however before you start just go to 'search programs and files' and just enter PONtrack.bin and let it search your whole computer.

[railduffer]

Thanks for the info on deleting PONtrack using the command line. I am not a computer whiz. Everything works great now.

[CSXK921]

im reserecting this thread because I deleted the file searched for it and it didn't show up. so its gone. BUT it still has this problem ive verified the game cache and everything and im ticked. so has anyone else have the problem or is it just me. I even completey deleted Railworks INCLUDING ALL OF MY DLC FROM HERE AND OTHER PLACES AND ITT STILL DOSENT WORK.