Workshop Scenarios don't download

[BNSFdude]

As title says^
I've verified Cache, Changed Download Servers, Uninstalled and Reinstalled steam. Nothing works.

[peterhayes]

BNSFD
Unfortunately, Cache verification usually won't help with WS scenarios not loading.
I guess that initially you subscribe to the WS scenario?
Opening TS 2016 you go to Main Menu "Drive" then "Workshop" tab and allow the scenario to download?
You may still see that the "DRIVE" button here is greyed out?
If yes, note, name of scenario, what type of scenario it is, and what route it belongs to, the open it via the Main DRIVE menu under, STANDRAD, CAREER, QD, FR etc.
You then run it from these options.
If this is not working you probably have a steam issue rather that a Railworks one.
Regards
pH

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

When you log on to Steam and the main window opens, do you see a download bar at the bottom?
Or is there anything listed under Library Downloads after you've been on Steam for awhile?

Is your Workshop selection listed when you browse through Subscribed Items? Did all of the green ticks stick?

Then go check the contents of your Steam\userdata\xxxxxxxx\ugc\referenced folder. Workshop downloads pass through that folder. There should be folders there containing .zip files that start with route_ or scnr_ for you route and scenario subscriptions. These folders get deleted once the Workshop content gets integrated in your Railworks game.

When going into Railworks => Drive => Workshop it usually starts synchronising your subscriptions right away. It might take a while but you then start seeing Downloading => Decompressing = Installing Content messages flash by before it comes to a rest.

Sometimes it takes a restart of Railworks for freshly subscribed Workshop items to download and appear in your game.

I am still having troubles with Workshop scenarios becoming corrupt because of Railworks' flaky unzipper. So finally you could run NameMyRoutes.exe and check the listing for number of items and items that have corrupt descriptions. I have kept all of the .zip files from the \referenced folder and usually unzip the new ones every week to overwrite the corrupt items in the Content\Routes folder.

[Ericmopar]

You have to "subscribe" then as others have said launch it from the workshop option in the menu. After it's been loaded and played the first time, it will show up in the main menu under whatever category like "standard" or "career".

If it's something other than that I don't have a clue.

Unless... it has something to do with the clean install of Steam. Did you have Steam Synchronization turned on?
Maybe after the clean install, Steam doesn't even know about the Workshop scenarios you had.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Unless... it has something to do with the clean install of Steam. Did you have Steam Synchronization turned on?
Maybe after the clean install, Steam doesn't even know about the Workshop scenarios you had.

I do believe this to be the case. When you've wiped Railworks and re-installed it, your previous Workshop content is gone.
I don't exactly know how and where Steam stores your Workshop subscriptions: locally on your computer or somewhere on Steam's server.

This could also mean that your previous subscriptions are gone too and you'll have to subscribe anew.

[BNSFdude]

The issue is that subscribing to a new scenario doesn't even yield so much as a download from my steam client like it used to.

[Ericmopar]

The issue is that subscribing to a new scenario doesn't even yield so much as a download from my steam client like it used to.

I've never had Workshop content download that way.
I've always had to open the main menu, click "drive" and then click on the Workshop tab. Then look for the new scenario subscription and click on things from there. (With TS2016)
In the old menus I had to go to "Workshop" and look for the newly subscribed scenario and click on it, then play it from there the first time.
It takes longer the first time to load, because they download and install it the first time you play it.

Everyone's up late/early. LOL
Am I the only one with mega insomnia?

[BNSFdude]

Update: Steam downloads workshop routes, but not scenarios.

[Ericmopar]

I just downloaded a scenario 2 nights ago for Feather River.
A couple actually.

[trev123]

Sometimes some of the WS routes don't have any scenarios for them unless people write some. Most of these routes are QD enabled though.

[Ericmopar]

Sometimes some of the WS routes don't have any scenarios for them unless people write some. Most of these routes are QD enabled though.

That's not what he's talking about. He's saying he can't download any Workshop scenarios at all.
I still can.

Is it possible to run out of space for scenarios?


Note: I just found out Mainlines "Larry" is also having some kind of issues with Workshop scenarios. It's making it so he can't run TS2016 at all.
I told him, I just had my graphics corrupted somehow when I cloned a route the other night and had to install a recent backup of the entire Railworks folder.
All routes were affected.

[Railroy19]

What I hate is after downloading a scenario and when I load it up it sits there and says it can't load up this or that engine and it won't run. And it says do you want to Edit or Exit.
And I check up on the missing engines or rolling stock I have them all in my files
How do you solve this problem?

Delete the scenario or as I do keep trying to get it working and waste my time.

[trev123]

If you run the scenario from the WS Tab in TS it will tell you if you don't have everything under the right window. As to your question you could leave a comment for the author of the scenario about it.

[BNSFdude]

Day 32, still nothing will download. I have every single DLC for the game, FWIW.

[peterhayes]

Trev

If you run the scenario from the WS Tab in TS it will tell you if you don't have everything under the right window.

Sorry - not always ONLY if it is a DTG DLC/Reskin but NOT if a third party reskin say be DPS.
PeterH