[RR] Railroads Bugs or Glitches? Post here.

[vorius]

Hey guys I got a problem I hope you can help me out with...

I was doing pretty good in Germany (random landscape/random cities) and then suddenly my station in Vienna ceased to function. Trains went there and just stood still. Their status was "unloading". I saved the game and reloaded, same thing. I then started to delete all the trains waiting (there were 4 or 5). I created a new train to bring beer from there to Prague and the train appears but doesn't do anything. Doesnt load the beer and bring it to Prague... Instead it's status just says "unlaoding". What's going on here?

savegame attached (edit: looks like it wont allow me to attach it )

 

[Jobeo]

Thats not a bug but a feature that I would want!

ya its nice when it goes in your favor but bad when it doesn't... hehe... whatever its not a big issue cause it really doesn't happen very often

 

[StreetWired]

Thats not a bug but a feature that I would want!

I have found a way to run my tracks through the AI's, without building a bridge or tunnel.

Unfortunately, I can't decide if i should post it or not, as perhaps the developer's will prevent it in the next patch..

 

[Lyciss]

Even after the second patch my game still has issues. I get random hard crashes, I might be able to play for a minute or it can be an hour. My comp is fine, and I don't have these problems with any other games.

 

[Marhubeng]

I'm using a notebook (Toshiba Qosmio G30) that complies with (or is better then) the recommended configuration. Graphics are taken care of by a GeForce Go 7600.
After installation the game slowed down significantly in the later stages of scenario.
First I reduced the resolution from 1920*1200 to 1440*900 and reduced the detail of the picture. This didn't change a thing.
Upgrading to version 1.1.0.0 solved a few minor issues, but not the slowing down.
I then upgraded the driver of the GeForce, and this solved the slow down problem. However I now get very irregular graphics. It appears that different 'layers' are mixed up. Tracks disappear, water rises, and mountains grow immensely in height. It makes the game unplayable. Usually the game crashes anyhow shortly after these graphic problems start. Interestingly, some scenarios seem to suffer a lot less or not a all. Specially those with high terrain seem to have the problem.
I love the game, but I cannot recommend it to anyone using GeForce Go graphics.

 

[Griselda]

I had similar issues. I've just had the game for a few days, and the patch helped performance significantly (although I do get significant slowdowns whenever routing is involved), it seems that the floodwaters have reached Salem:

This was followed by a CTD not too much later.

 

[dhodhee]

Hey there,

I must be doing something wrong here. If I lay a track between 2 cities for, say, passengers and stick a train on it, most of the time the train just sits there at the station losing money. Sometimes it'll load up, offload passengers, return and just sit there again. Also, sometimes, if I put more than one carriage, the 1st will load but not the next. I haven't checked "wait for full load" either.
Any help you could give would be great as I cannot do anything here.
Terrible, terrible game.
Cheers,
Mark

MY EMAIL JUST GOT RESPONSE FROM EUROSUPPORT AND WORK FOR ME

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for contacting Take 2 Technical Support.

Please follow the instructions below which should get the game working correctly for you :

Hold the Alt key down and press tab (the key above Caps lock on a standard keyboard layout)
This will minimise the game and show the windows desktop. Click on the Sid Meier's Railroads! button on the taskbar to enter the game again. This should start the train moving once again and prevent it from delaying its journeys any further

Kind Regards,
Take 2 Technical Support

 

[dhodhee]

My trains will stop at a station and just stay there.

It will even happen to me and the Computer when I'm playing against 1, 2, or 3 computer AI's.

MY EMAIL JUST GOT RESPONSE FROM EUROSUPPORT AND SOLVE THE SAME PROBLEM

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for contacting Take 2 Technical Support.

Please follow the instructions below which should get the game working correctly for you :

Hold the Alt key down and press tab (the key above Caps lock on a standard keyboard layout)
This will minimise the game and show the windows desktop. Click on the Sid Meier's Railroads! button on the taskbar to enter the game again. This should start the train moving once again and prevent it from delaying its journeys any further

Kind Regards,
Take 2 Technical Support

 

[cybrgamr]

MY EMAIL JUST GOT RESPONSE FROM EUROSUPPORT AND SOLVE THE SAME PROBLEM

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for contacting Take 2 Technical Support.

Please follow the instructions below which should get the game working correctly for you :

Hold the Alt key down and press tab (the key above Caps lock on a standard keyboard layout)
This will minimise the game and show the windows desktop. Click on the Sid Meier's Railroads! button on the taskbar to enter the game again. This should start the train moving once again and prevent it from delaying its journeys any further

Kind Regards,
Take 2 Technical Support

((Note: My CPU is a Radeon 3000+ with 1Gb system RAM and a Visiontek Xtasy Radeon 9600 w/256M Video RAM))

I have noticed the graphics have been getting inconsistent late in a scenario (when I have a lot of things happening in the game), in particular, all the top layers disappear from the screen, leaving just the trains and landscape (no user interface). Other than that, the game handles fine for me - minor slowdown issues.

I discovered a couple of days ago that going out to the desktop and coming back in cleared the issue (and now this email confirms it). It does sometimes happen again after coming back in, I just keep going out to the desktop to clear it. Somewhat annoying it is. I hope it is something they can fix...

 

[Griselda]

My graphics issue didn't stop by going to the desktop and back, but was fixed by closing and reopening the entire program. However, after I reloaded from a save and continued the same game in progress, it was only a few minutes before I had the same issue, and eventually the CTD.

 

[Lord Nazh]

Whenever I have a graphic issue, I simply open the 'new' train screen then cancel out, seems to fix it for the remainder of the scenario

 

[willie g]

Greetings - I've been playing the stand alone scenarios with AI competitors.
The auction block is apparently inactive - when it pops up (it doesn't matter whether I start the auction or the AI player or the 'patent'.) - I cannot raise the bid or close the window. Very frustrating.
Any suggestions?
-willie g.

 

[VladTepes]

Halfway through a game, trains started developing severe pathing problems. Trains that had been fine for years suddenly veered off course, into another city, then started looping back and forth over the same track.

The AI starts out halfway intelligent, then starts building flying bridges and flinging tracks 50 miles, crossing over yours just to get to a tiny city that has only one industry.

If I had not received this as a gift, I would be demanding Firaxis give me my money back!! The whole game is half-baked!!!

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I have a few problems with this game.

1. In the tutorial, building a rail on the green arrows and connecting it doesn't achieve the objective. You actually have to build a rail on the OPPOSITE side.

2. I'm not used to games where you start with a budget and have to earn more money. I used to LOVE Zoo Tycoon and SimSafari, but after playing Empire Earth 2, Age of Empires 3, and Civilization 4 for a while, I'm not used to that kind of game anymore.

3. To that end, I decided to play Train Table Mode, but then the game auto-exited. That happened in the Tutorial as well.

 

[Krupo]

Greetings - I've been playing the stand alone scenarios with AI competitors.
The auction block is apparently inactive - when it pops up (it doesn't matter whether I start the auction or the AI player or the 'patent'.) - I cannot raise the bid or close the window. Very frustrating.
Any suggestions?
-willie g.

Did you have enough cash?

 

[willie g]

...more than enough cash. After I posted, the problem went away...until yesterday. Same symptom, couldn't do anything with the auction window, even close it. It had worked fine during that same game; immediately prior to the problem I had been at the "Trains Report" screen...
-willie g

 

[Grinder]

The AI is pretty poor for your own trains as it always takes the shortest route. So for example if you double track from station to station, the AI generally plonks any new train on a used track instead of the new track you've just created. Furthermore when you try and get a train to move to the new track by laying slip track, all the trains will jump track. If you do manage to get your new train onto the new track, it's quite difficult to remove the slip track wihout having to remove then replace a lot of track.

The game really slows right down to a crawl at times and gets very jerky making movement around the screen. I've seen it pause for several seconds in every game I've played. These are worrying as CTD sometimes happen when it starts long pauses.

Also the graphics start glitching when it gets busy with scenery disappearing. I've seen all the water turn white, and all scenery disappear entirely leaving an olive green background with just the tracks and engines.

A really silly glitch is when you double a track through a station and the station bridge either doesn't move to accomodate it or moves to thw wrong position leaving the end of the bridge on the track. It wouldn't be a big deal like the houses that do this when a city expands, but somehow trains that hit the bridge slowdown like an engine collision.

On some occasions you can cross your own track without it building a bridge! Trains will pass directly through each other but with no slowdown.

A real PITA is when you buy a new train and during the setup you tick the box for it to wait until it is full before departing, but then it just heads empty for the next station. You'll immediately check the train just to make sure you did tick the box, and guess what? You did! The train just went anyway.

You could write a book about all the shortcomings of Railroads!

 

[bioworm]

Ok, i ve been playing Computer Games for 20 years now and this is the 2nd most unstable game (1rst was Car Tycoon). Now here are my issues (got the 1.10 Update):

1. When there is too much track, when I want to add some more, the game freezes, i go eat a salat and when I come back it might be unstuck. The more the new track, the more the freezy thingy it is. It is not a performance problem, because i can play other games (battlefield, Wow, Lineage, Need for speed etc.) with no problem.

2. System crashes (fortunatelly there is autosave) veeery often. Sometimes I can reload the save and play, sometimesit automaticly crashes when I load it again. I think that changing the destination(s) (route) of a train causes the CTD. To be more precise it might happen when I deleted all the destinations of the route and added new. In order to prevent this I just scrap the old one and get an new one every time i want to change the route. Works fine for me and I dont get the crashes where you cant do anything, even after getting the safe.

3.When adding many tracks one next to the other with many crosschanges between them or when there is just to much stuff on the map the trains often get the problem, which I think is referred to as looping. My trains go forward and backward in an loop of sheer unending happiness of seeing the landscape, many times not letting other trains pass. I then scrape the train and get a new one. Problem is that if you want to do the same route again, the train will often get the same loop.

One of-the-topic issue: If you really cant play the game because of CDT etc, but you like it, I d say you go play Railroad Tycoon II. It's the same thing, the graphics are OK, it hasn't got the auctions and internet multiplayer (LAN multiplayer is possible) but everything else is there (I thing). RTII has better interfaces (you have to click less and get more information), no oversized citys and some other changes, which I personally prefer (as: you can get more than one factories/factories in one station if you pay for the big station, but factories arent limited to cities - which of course isnt historically correct until the 1960s), and better economical . After playing a little bit Sid meiers railroads I still prefer Railroad Tycoon II.

 

[VladTepes]

I loved RRT2 as well, the problem I found was it got too easy. The AI would not expand beyond a certain point.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I get totally crazy grafix. Just lines and stuff appearing. ussually followed by a crash. happens constantly-