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OT: Do you like trains?

One trick you might try is to open steam, and go to "My Games". Right click on Railworks and select properties from the popup menu. Under the properties selection, choose "Verify local cache ( or files)" Then go have coffee and a golf game with your buddies { No lie, it takes that long } while steam goes in and checks all your files. If anything is wrong, it gets flagged for redownload the next time you start steam. Now, once thats done, close steam and restart it. Although my directx is the absolute latest, for some reason, every single time i do that, it downloads a new copy. That should take care of your problem, but seeing what ive seen, it may not. still, its worth a try. I had to do that a great number of times trying to get the challenger addon to work. i dont know what finally happened that it started working, but it did, and all those directx reinstalls did no damage to my system at all..
 
warchild said:
One trick you might try is to open steam, and go to "My Games". Right click on Railworks and select properties from the popup menu. Under the properties selection, choose "Verify local cache ( or files)" Then go have coffee and a golf game with your buddies { No lie, it takes that long } while steam goes in and checks all your files. If anything is wrong, it gets flagged for redownload the next time you start steam. Now, once thats done, close steam and restart it. Although my directx is the absolute latest, for some reason, every single time i do that, it downloads a new copy. That should take care of your problem, but seeing what ive seen, it may not. still, its worth a try. I had to do that a great number of times trying to get the challenger addon to work. i dont know what finally happened that it started working, but it did, and all those directx reinstalls did no damage to my system at all..
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Similar advice I got from the other forums Pam ... I'll give it a go tonight when I get home from work. It'll be after 1800 hours EST though.

I have another question.

If I go and find this simulation on a CD/DVD in a store, am I still expected to hook up to steam?
 
warchild said:
One trick you might try is to open steam, and go to "My Games". Right click on Railworks and select properties from the popup menu. Under the properties selection, choose "Verify local cache ( or files)" Then go have coffee and a golf game with your buddies { No lie, it takes that long } while steam goes in and checks all your files. If anything is wrong, it gets flagged for redownload the next time you start steam. Now, once thats done, close steam and restart it. Although my directx is the absolute latest, for some reason, every single time i do that, it downloads a new copy. That should take care of your problem, but seeing what ive seen, it may not. still, its worth a try. I had to do that a great number of times trying to get the challenger addon to work. i dont know what finally happened that it started working, but it did, and all those directx reinstalls did no damage to my system at all..
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Thanks very much for that advice - im giving it a go now - just putting the kettle on!!
 
Still no joy in this.

I've done everything and RailWorks tells me my Directx is no current ... I went so far as to find the directx that came with the download and ran the exe file from there ... still no joy.
 
I'm doing a net search to see if i can find any related problems for ya snuffy.. please give me a day or two.. Life just took off for me like someone strapped a jato to my butt and hit the ignition.. its a good thing, but real real crazy for the next couple days.. will do my best to help you out though..
 
Well I hope you get it fixed. Are you running dx10?
I decided to dig up my msts instead of getting rw, figuring there would be a robust freeware collection over all these years, but addons are a pain to install and usually require multiple payware addons to already be installed already. Not only that but just putting a train together is a pain.
 
I'm running XP Pro with DirectX 9.0C xxxx as per the installation download, and even after running the provided direct X on my machine, the RW start up still tells me my directX is the wrong version.

I think I know where the problem is steming from.

When I run dxdiag, the first opening general tab dialog box says the direct x version at the bottom is still version 8 something with a (5.xxxx.xxxx) number

So RW is apparently reading something somewhere that reflects that misnomer with dx.

How do I get directX to update the version number? (I've got a dozen questions posted on the MS technical support forums.)
 
Not yet. It was late last night when I finally decided to check with the dxdiag to see what I might find. When I found it listed as 8.xxx in the dxdiag dialog, I immediately went and found the install version from RW and installed that, or I thought I did. I'll give your link a try tonight.

and I'm thinking I probably should do this in administrator/safe mode ... :)
 
YAY!!! Got RW to work finally.

My OS was reading my DirectX as 8.1 ... once I got it so it read DirectX as 9.0c .... Steam updated a couple of things in RW and I was on my way.

Spent a couple hours in the test trak route ... LOL! I managed to do a split. Apparenlty didn't back off the switch far enough and ended up with a pair of trucks on two different tracks and my loco riding between the two sets of rails!

I'm bad! :applause:
 
I guess I was too late for the sale on Railworks. They're back to $49 bucks.
I grew up loving steam trains. Nothing like a 6500 HP 4884 Big Boy to get your attention. When it came roaring down off the mountain pulling a three and a half mile freight train, at Gloversville. It would scoop up the water between the tracks to slow her down. A magnificent, fierce, explosion between steam and water.
Ah, them was the days!
 
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