MT Great Eastern route upgrade problems

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:13 am

When I try to run the 1.1 and 1.2 upgrade patches, the installer tells me that I don't appear to have the GE route installed. It then closes without giving me the option to browse for the correct route location (ie on my E drive). Setting up dummy GE route folders on my C drive or opening the patch from my E Drive has the same result. MT indicated it might be a fault with the installer but have not come back to me. Can anyone else help?

deltic100 · Post by **deltic100** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:39 am

Hi i Have a PC with 2 250 gig Sata drives and 1 ordinary 150 gig drive with windows on But i have MSTS installed on Sata D Drive and Have GE installed to and The 1.2 patch Romford to Upminster works on my PC
but i do not know why it dos on work on yours but i am running them as a Reade Drive so ti Runs Fast and Smooth but it should work on any Drive you want it to dos it find the MSTS location The patch should find E program Files Microsoft Games Train Simulator Routes Great Eastern if not try downloding it again

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:22 pm

I have tried downloading and installing the patches several times, with the same result.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:02 pm

Is GE in the same place and the same PC as it was installed off the CD ?
Was it installed direct from a CD ?
If theres no registry entry then thats why theres a problem with the upgrades.
The process clearly works, as most people have it installed ok.

Its likely that you have a missing registry entry for one reason or another.

Thrashin · Post by **Thrashin** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:42 pm

Do you have Trainstore? If you do and the route is stored the installer might not find it.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:01 pm

Trainstore will not effect registry entries, so will make no difference.

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:50 pm

The problem arises whether the route is stored or not.

Iluka · Post by **Iluka** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:59 pm

Hi Longbow

Have you got the CD version of GE Installed??

If you haven't then the patches won't work.

Regards

Mike

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:24 pm

Yes, I have the CD version installed and operational.

I've set up dummy MSTS/GE folders on my C drive but the patches can't find that either, and there's no option to browse for the correct location.

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:35 am

As Dave said the installer looks for registry keys that are created when the CD route installer is run. So if for example the route was installed on another computer and then copied across the registry entries would not exist on the new machine, if they are not found the installer closes automatically.

Moving things around will make absolutely no difference to the operation of the installer at all in this instance.

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:51 am

It was indeed a registry problem. I had installed the route via my laptop cdrom drive and network so there were no registry entries on my desktop. Jon Bilton sent me the correct registry entries and it's now sorted. Thanks to all who replied.