Kickstart

[jimmyshand]

Has anyone tried the new Kickstart program that's just been released on UKTS? is it any good, what are the advantages?
It sounds really good but I am a bit reluctant to try anything that might mess up RS as I have only just got my PC back up and running after a nasty virus attack.

Can you use Kickstart to change locos in scenarios??

[ka959]

Heh... that's a wee bit hard for me to answer (how good is it) - because I installed it and on clicking the "Start" button, I immediately got a small dialogue box saying "Script out of range" and clicking on that exited the thing totally. So, no go here, mate. Sorry. I probably did something wrong, but have since rebooted my PC and am about to try clicking it again and see what happens. If the same thing occurs, I'll wait and see if there's further replies to your message, and whether or not anyone has a "fix" for this annoying problem sooner or later. Cheers.

Regards...

Jim McDermott

[almark]

Well it looks really good, but i have the same problem i read the instructions and directed it to my "Rail Simulator" folder. But i get the same message.

[growler37]

Hi
Its a great utility works like a dream,thanks mike!
yes it changes loco,s, consists ,weather, Etc,as the advert says "it does exactualy what it says on the tin".
i think this utility will be as great as route riter, on grandad MSTS1 .
as i said before great work mike!
kevin.

[growler37]

Well it looks really good, but i have the same problem i read the instructions and directed it to my "Rail Simulator" folder. But i get the same message.

I dont know what system you guys are using,i am on XPpro,
i just unziped the files to the desktop,clicked on the kickstart icon! and your away(or should be)
try that.
i just changed my weather and loco in a free roam scenario worked great so easy now!

kevin

[captaincooke]

The readme mentions that you need the VB runtime files. Perhaps this may be the problem?

[choccy]

Another brilliant utility from Mike. It installed without a hitch, for me and has so many features that will be of enormous benefit to RS enthusiasts. All those folks who have yearned to swap the drivable loco can now do it with a few mouse clicks, and your loco of choice will be at the head of your drivable consist with all the icons of the original loco in place. Great work!

Mark

[maxhall]

I cant get it to run either.
Just get a error message when i try.
anyone else had sameprob?

Max

[emrhd01]

Installed first time for me.

I had 'RS_Tools The Missing Bits' & 'RSBinTool' by Mike already installed, I don't know whether that makes the difference?

[phat2003uk]

An excellent tool, thanks Mike.

[sniper297]

Couple problems, I've been beta testing this, and every time Mike sends me a new version F-Secure pops up complaining it's malicious software. Trouble there is RS_KickStart.exe uses serz.exe to decompress scenarios.bin in order to read it, and many viruses launch programs that start other programs and a ".bin" extension is considered to be a system file by a lot of antivirus programs. So every time I get a new RS_KickStart.exe I have to go thru the same process of opening F-Secure and adding the new RS_KickStart.exe to the "ALLOW" list.

That's one possibility, the other I've found so far is the earliest days a lot of us were copying serz.exe into the Windows\System32 folder to get something else to work (can't remember what it was), if I remove serz.exe from my system32 folder I don't get any error messages, just no response whatsoever when I click on "list scenarios". Copy serz.exe from C:\Rail Simulator\Packager into C:\WINDOWS\system32 then RS_KickStart works fine.

Sent an email off to Mike, due to the time difference it's probably gonna be tomorrow before we start chasing it down, meantime everyone who can't get it to work, (1) Vista or XP, (2) RStoolsTMB installed, yes or no, and (3) exact wording of the error message and which button you click on when it pops up.

[trentvalley]

Hi all, I installed the program "Kickstart" and all seemed to be ok. I changed a loco from a class 47 to a class 43 in the "York to Newcastle Stopper Scenario and then saved. But when I tried to run this scenerio in Railsim it did not show in the routes scenarios, although it still appeared in the "Rs_tools_tools_the_missing_bits" program, so I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

I had to re-install the original downloaded scenerio for it to appear again in railsim again.

Steve

[777fred]

What route to RS do I put it to?, it keeps saying 'out of range', what route on C:/Program Files/Rail Simulator/...?.

[sniper297]

Hmmmm, don't have a "Stopper", so I tried "Up for the cup", that works okay, but "Coals to Newcastle" gets serz.exe into an endless loop and I have to shut it down with the task manager, then delete the KickStart tempfiles folder to allow KickStart to - uh - restart. FYI, like everyone else I don't read the directions, so I don't remember if this is mentioned, but the scenarios.bak and in one of the scenarios subfolders will be a scenario.bak, if you delete the two affected bin files and rename the two bak files to bin that will restore the original scenario if you forgot to make a backup manually.

One trouble I'm having here is two different installations of railsim on the same drive, in C:\Rail Simulator\ I have the US direct to drive version with the patch, in C:\Backup1\Rail Simulator I have a prepatch version with all five default routes installed. So to check out something in the York Newcastle route I have to launch from a different place, and since the options, find path thing in KickStart writes an INI file I made another folder and am now running two different copies of KickStart. Don't know if that's a factor in this looping or not, but for some reason I can't open the Coals to Newcastle scenario.

[sniper297]

Kinda like that? The other York Newcastle scenarios are working fine, just coals to Newcastle I get that serz.exe loop, Geordie frostbite express I get this subscript out of range error, both when I click on the edit scenario button. I have XP media, service pack 2, the railsim install I'm getting this on is prepatch.