Rail Sim crashes to the windows blue screen of death

[jamespez]

Hi

I have had RS running fine on my computer for over a year but a couple of days ago it started refusing to load. Whenever I click on the application file, nothing happens and after about 20 seconds it crashes fairly rapidly to the infamous "blue screen of death". My computer is otherwise healthy and works well and i have tried reinstalling it and deleting any rogue registry files but it still crashes. Please could anyone shed any light in this problem

Regards

James

[Schmalspur]

Sounds like a issue with a hardware or software change, have you updated any drivers recently or added new software around the time crashing began?

[jamespez]

Hi

I had not added any new software or hardware relating to RS before the crash except for some downloads from digital-traction (Hall class locos).

James

[zlindku]

Something that may be worth considering here is that when you remove something from a system and reinstall it it is not uncommon for the operating system to put the files back in the same space. And because the operating does NOT zero the sectors when it removes a file if the file was corrupt in the beginning there will still be a chance it will be corrupt after the reinstall.
You might try to delete RS then install another large something or other to hopefully take up the space freed when RS was removed then reinstall RS and see what happens.

Note: I have positively had this occur on one of my systems, the only cure was to reformat the hard disk.
Note 2: In theory this should not happen but it does...........