Activities and the "MSTS has encountered a problem"

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:08 pm

Has anyone else had the above problem? I've had it on about 6 activities over the last few months. MSTS is about quarter to half through loading an activity, when the "MSTS has encountered a problem" window comes up, you click 'Don't send' and MSTS logs out. Latest one for me is the Banker activity for NWE. Obviously other people can use the activity no problem, just wondered if it happens to anyone else and any suggestions for getting round it.

Simon

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:54 pm

Hi
Loads of things can go wrong.....lack of Win resorces is the main one....check out the thread on stuttering...for some good info.
I am assuming you have checked the activity with route riter etc.

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:58 pm

To be honest, no I haven't. I would have thought the sort of things RR would pick up (missing wagons etc) would only cause MSTS to pop up one of those 'Error: continue?' windows. I'll check it out and see if anything happens

Simon

baldwin · Post by **baldwin** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:48 pm

If any of the stock used in these activities has a problem, it can have that effect.

Mervyn

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 6:38 pm

I've checked it with RouteRiter (and the other activities I have the same problem with) and they all come out OK; no red boxes. Any ideas what to do next?

Simon

kevarc · Post by **kevarc** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:36 pm

Redo the paths, I have had many probelms because MSTS didn't like my path.

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:07 am

OK, I'll give it a try.

Simon

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:04 pm

I can't redo the paths 'cos the Activity Editor throws up the 'problem' window as soon as I select the activity. I use Train Store, so I don't think the consist limit is a problem. I have tried saying 'yes' and 'no' to overwriting paths, consists etc when installing the activity. I am now out of ideas. Anyone else got any?

Simon

terrycunliffe · Post by **terrycunliffe** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:45 pm

Same thing happened to me.... could never get the NWE Banana activity to load Both RR and Activity Analyser reported all Hunky-Dory! All other NWE activites have loaded fine.
Still can't suss it... even went as far as moving my 'Trains' folder to a temp. location. and creating a 'new' one, just containing the stock and consists (and aliases) needed for that particular activity. Now just resigned myself to it being one of those MSTS moments sent by Mr Gates on a regular basis to annoy all and sundry! :2gunfire:
Regards,
Terry

kevarc · Post by **kevarc** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:51 pm

There is probably something wrong inside a eng file. This has happened to me. Sometimes I get the message, sometimes I don't.

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:26 pm

I'll try downloading it again to see if that makes any difference, otherwise I'll just have to give up!

Simon

sddsddean · Post by **sddsddean** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:36 pm

A new turn of events! Tried loading 'The Long Drag pt1'. Not only does the 'problem' window come up, but it won't let me do anything else with MSTS; it just comes on half way through start up. Its OK if I deselect NWE in Train Store. So I thinks, delete NWE from 'Routes' and replace it with a copy I made when I first got the route. No, that don't work. So it appears, to use the route at all, I'll have to do a complete MSTS reinstall. Well thats my weekend; what is everyone else doing!!??

Simon

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:28 am

Im planning on uploading a Class 180 Adelante activity ive been working on for the L2B route and also doing two more to make a set of three.

The 1st, which is actually a rehash of the 09:32 activity I uploaded a while ago, but with the consist changed should be available Saturday night or Sunday. the other two which will be completely new, maybe Tuesday.

jimmyladd · Post by **jimmyladd** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:31 pm

Trying to stop blasted AI trains coliding on crossovers an stopping a signals in the middle of nowhere for no reason. Is Mr. Gates trying to put us in an early grave or what?
Cheers, Jim

runawaytrain · Post by **runawaytrain** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:07 pm

Hi

Try a good old fashioned uninstall and reinstall the route and see if that helps, when I first installed the route I had endless crashes (send to coventry- dont send to coventry) and couldnt write an activity with more than 4 stops, in addition to this I suffered white outs and derailments so a clean install was on the cards, this cured my particular problems and I havent stopped playing NWE since !

I thought my problems possibly stemmed from running a low spec pc but the above did it for me.

Cheers

Andy

PS: I did a complete MSTS uninstall/reinstall then reinstalled NWE
PPS: As Ca55ie (another member) once said theres nothing like a good old complete reinstall !