Activity Editor problem

olly1234 · Post by **olly1234** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:44 pm

Bonjour Y'all!

I am having troublr with AE at the moment, it wont put static consists down for my acticitys! It worked fine until about 2 weeks ago when i installed LSE, and had to use Train Store for it to run because of that 500 consists bug.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
olly1234

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:47 pm

This is due to corruption of the AE registry keys in the hwrendered main key in your windows registry. If you are comfortable editing your registry, run regedit from a command prompt and do a search for hwrenderer. In that folder delete all the keys starting AE. Close regedit and reboot your PC. When you next run the activity editor they will be re-created

olly1234 · Post by **olly1234** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:58 pm

Any other solutions?

choccy · Post by **choccy** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:43 pm

There was a utility that did the job but it's now been removed from the library.

If you don't want to edit the registry you will have to reinstall; an unpleasant and trying process.

The path to the relevant registry keys is:-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\1.0\HWRenderer

Now I've lost count of the number of times I've quoted that!

Mark

olly1234 · Post by **olly1234** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:04 pm

Ok, im going to re-install because now way am i mucking around with my registery key. Thanks for the help anyway guys!

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:58 pm

Olly - I can understand your worry, but it really is quite straightforward as long as you take care and double check before pressing the delete key. if the worst comes to it, you can always reinstall MSTS, and you are going to do that now, so youve nothing really to lose.

I have to say i delete these keys pretty regularly, maybe once every couple of months or so. the registry gets corrupted quite easily.

olly1234 · Post by **olly1234** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:10 pm

Well i would delete the registery keys, but when i put

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\1.0\HWRenderer

into Command Prompt nothing happens!

Post by **dorlan** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:33 pm

olly1234 wrote:Well i would delete the registery keys, but when i put

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\1.0\HWRenderer

into Command Prompt nothing happens!

Just type regedit and then press enter.
That will open the registry editor.
Then work your way down the menu tree, clicking on the + boxes, looking for ....
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\1.0\HWRenderer
Click on HWRenderer and delete the 21 entries starting with AE_

That's all you have to do!

Ian J

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:05 pm

BTW its not into command propt, into the
"run" thing is start menu.

Cheers

Ali

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:09 pm

Very supirised going through my registery, in the SOFTWARE folder there is a single folder from alexander shaws intercity mark 2's.

Why does it need to do that.

Cheers

Ali

Post by **dorlan** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:30 pm

desiro5 wrote:BTW its not into command propt, into the
"run" thing is start menu.

Cheers

Ali

You can do it either way!

Ian J

olly1234 · Post by **olly1234** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:05 pm

Yes i did it into Command prompt and it worked fine and now its fixed. Thanks guys for your help!

leveritt · Post by **leveritt** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:47 pm

choccy wrote:There was a utility that did the job but it's now been removed from the library.

If you don't want to edit the registry you will have to reinstall; an unpleasant and trying process.

Mark

The removed utility, "MSTSFIX", can now be found here, packaged with some others...
http://hawkdawg.com/MSTS/uti/cblite/joe_util.htm

regards,
charlie

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:28 pm

I thought the AE fixer was now part of the 'Tweaks Utils and Improvements' pack on the front page of ukts....

Post by **dorlan** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:19 am

thenudehamster wrote:I thought the AE fixer was now part of the 'Tweaks Utils and Improvements' pack on the front page of ukts....

It had to be removed!

Ian J