OT: Do you like trains?

[warchild]

I'm doing a net search to see if i can find any related problems for ya snuffy.. please give me a day or two.. Life just took off for me like someone strapped a jato to my butt and hit the ignition.. its a good thing, but real real crazy for the next couple days.. will do my best to help you out though..

[Snuffy]

Thanks WC! I'm gonna open a ticket to steam ...

[deimos256]

Well I hope you get it fixed. Are you running dx10?
I decided to dig up my msts instead of getting rw, figuring there would be a robust freeware collection over all these years, but addons are a pain to install and usually require multiple payware addons to already be installed already. Not only that but just putting a train together is a pain.

[Snuffy]

I'm running XP Pro with DirectX 9.0C xxxx as per the installation download, and even after running the provided direct X on my machine, the RW start up still tells me my directX is the wrong version.

I think I know where the problem is steming from.

When I run dxdiag, the first opening general tab dialog box says the direct x version at the bottom is still version 8 something with a (5.xxxx.xxxx) number

So RW is apparently reading something somewhere that reflects that misnomer with dx.

How do I get directX to update the version number? (I've got a dozen questions posted on the MS technical support forums.)

[empeck]

Have you tried to install latest DirectX (February 2010)?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...7-5ab8109cb4f5

[Snuffy]

Not yet. It was late last night when I finally decided to check with the dxdiag to see what I might find. When I found it listed as 8.xxx in the dxdiag dialog, I immediately went and found the install version from RW and installed that, or I thought I did. I'll give your link a try tonight.

and I'm thinking I probably should do this in administrator/safe mode ...

[Snuffy]

Have you tried to install latest DirectX (February 2010)?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...7-5ab8109cb4f5

Alright, well its a failure.

My dxdiag dialog box still reads 8.1 even after this install. I even went to safe mode and system administrator to install it ... no joy.

I'm at a loss here, I have no idea what's going on. So far, none of my questions in any of the microsoft help forums have been answered either.

[Snuffy]

YAY!!! Got RW to work finally.

My OS was reading my DirectX as 8.1 ... once I got it so it read DirectX as 9.0c .... Steam updated a couple of things in RW and I was on my way.

Spent a couple hours in the test trak route ... LOL! I managed to do a split. Apparenlty didn't back off the switch far enough and ended up with a pair of trucks on two different tracks and my loco riding between the two sets of rails!

I'm bad!

[Henry]

still working on a forum
an stlill playng
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[Henry]

here
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...rain-simulator
a wip
H

[gajit]

Hi Henry

Thanks :salute:

[Snuffy]

here
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...rain-simulator
a wip
H

Thanks H'

Now if we can get this thread moved there ...

[Helldiver]

I guess I was too late for the sale on Railworks. They're back to $49 bucks.
I grew up loving steam trains. Nothing like a 6500 HP 4884 Big Boy to get your attention. When it came roaring down off the mountain pulling a three and a half mile freight train, at Gloversville. It would scoop up the water between the tracks to slow her down. A magnificent, fierce, explosion between steam and water.
Ah, them was the days!

[rohan]

FYI, there's a special deal at Steam on Railworks bundled with BNSF Dash 9 which looks as if it runs until 2nd September. Price shown in the UK is £ 23.49 -
http://store.steampowered.com/

Ro
:ernae:

[rohan]

While the FlightSim shop has a special offer of "RailWorks Ultimate Train Simulator with Bonus Challenger" for only $ 24.98 this weekend -
http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_i...oducts_id=2425

Ro