Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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Hi guys, me again. :roll:

I have just installed TS2013 and some AP scenario's ans sound packs onto my new laptop which runs Windows 7 Home Premium. It's brilliant being finally able to see the game at it's full potential using higher graphics settings!
However, when i load any scenario, no matter what time it is, whether it's day or night all i get is a black/blank sky. Also, the signals are blank and are not showing any aspects at all(AWS still works), along with locomotive headlights not visibly showing as working either.

But when i tried a scenario using the Freightliner 66 in Scotland, its headlights all worked, the signals worked (LED type) but i still had a blank sky and the tail light wouldn't flash.
I have included some screenshots below showing some of this happening. It also seems that some of the lineside details/textures are not loading too as some of it just stays white.

I have cleared the bluprint cache and verified the game files, some were missing but it downloaded them.
I was running it on my older, much slower Vista system on low graphics with no problems

Does anyone know how i can solve this at all? Is it all related to one thing? I am hoping it is quite simple to solve.
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Re: Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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Do you have an ATI graphics card
If so, Could your issue be the same as this?
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... y#p1587346

It seems related to a setting in the display control panel.
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Re: Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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You need to set your graphics card to 'Application Controlled' for TS2013 in whatever utility you use to control it - then you can adjust the graphics settings from within TS2013.
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Re: Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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I am running a AMD Radeon HD 7650M graphics card. I have had a look through the menu for it and it does not list any of the options suggested.
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i Had this problem as soon as I upgraded to TS2013 as alanch correctly says set your graphics card to application controlled

In control centre goto gaming > 3D Application settings and you wil be greeted with the applications profiles page you can create a profile for railworks.exe attached image of my settings
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All sorted. Thanks very much guys, much appreciated.
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hitch840 wrote:All sorted. Thanks very much guys, much appreciated.
What exactly sorted it? If you post details of how you resolved it that may very well help anybody else who runs into the same issue.
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Re: Signals not showing aspect, Blank sky & and no headlights

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The post above yours sorted it from 'Johnmnstl'. 8)
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