Weird Problem

[wrighty]

For some reason i get this when i run MSTS.


All writing has gone on every page

Not a clue why, i've re-installed a few times and had no sucess.

Any Ideas anybody

Allan

[Easilyconfused]

OK. Obvious questions first - how many consists etc. do you have ? Have you stored everything apart from what you want to run ?

What about your display drivers ? Have you updated to any "latest and greatest" ? I try to stay way back on my Nvidia drivers - about 2004 at the last check.

Have you installed MSTSbin and not copied the required files to the directories as described in the installation instructions ? Can't remember what they were (some DLLs maybe ?) but I know when I forgot to do that it all went belly up.

[wrighty]

Alright John, it's nothing to do with Trainstore, or any other programs, Bin is the latest version, even thou its a new pc i originally installed TS and it worked straight away. Didn't enter the sim for a while cause i was busy building wagons (normal MT duties). Finished a wagon had a bit of spare time so thought that i'd knock up a quick consist of stock that i'd recently made and have a quick drive / do couple screen shots as you do. And this greeted me. Haven't up dated any drivers cause if i did that would have been the first thing that i'd went too. Possed this to friends over at MT, and many others were stumped as of the cause of the problem.

[GaryG]

Hi,

Fresh MSTSbin install I think I'm reading.

Did you install the two appropriate .dll files from the language directory? Step 4 in the Readme file.

GaryG

[wrighty]

Indeed i did Gary.

[GaryG]

185 or so files in your Train Simulator\Fonts directory?

That or a GUI problem. That picture is GUI\SCREENS\activity.ace. But with that slanted line and the single "N" added, I suspect a fonts or drawing problem. I wonder if something is broken in DirectX. Perhaps a repair installation would be a good next step.

GaryG

[ronald parkin]

Hi Alan, Ron's first law on any MSTS foul up's is undo what you last did and try again,so remove the wagons and see.

Regards

Ron P

[britair1940]

Hi Wrighty
exactly the same problem ,I uninstalled all my MSTS set up in the end including trainstore and all my addons then cleaned the reg with a reg cleaner then reinstalled MSTS with the update still the same problem .The only new intallation I have is a new video card a Sapphire Radeon HD2600xt agp with gddr3 memory and I am wondering if this is causing the problem. Like you I need HELP!
Regards
Brian

[wrighty]

Tis totally oddisn't it Brian, it would take too much time to list all the things i've tried.

[britair1940]

Hi Wrighty
I found the fix for my graphics it was a problem with the Radeon video driver supplied with my Sapphire card
I went to the Sapphire site (not ATI Site!) and downloaded the latest driver + a file called Hotfix for My card ,I reloaded MSTS now no problems .
Hope this helps
regards
Brian

[wrighty]

Thats Excellent Brian, good to hear your back in business.