How use OR wth my payware routes?

[hoghead]

I was just looking at some screenshots from Diesel West web site of locomotives using OR with 3DTS’s Cajon Sub. Many of the shots look great and I want to use OR but my attempts have failed. I’ve installed OR, maybe incorrectly, and I will reinstall it but my question is: how do I use it with my payware routes? I have all the routes from SLI, 3DTS, MLT, Garber, and Ming so I am wondering can I use OR with them and if so how do I set it up. I realize the answer is probably involved so where can I read about how to use it with my routes?
Thanks, Rich

[OTTODAD]

Whatever has been installed into MSTS can be used by ORTS, but the latter may have problems with some rolling stock which has been coded it can not yet understand, there being so many variations of settings in their files !

O t t o

[baldwin]

If you want to run these routes without using MSTS then you need a folder in Open Rails, mine is called Open Rails, and in there you put the Route and Trains folders. I also copied in my MSTS Global and Sounds folders. You dont need all of those files, but it does stop basic errors about missing files.

With OR up and running, you need to add the Open Rails folder to your menu to get access to the activities.

[OTTODAD]

Simply add your MSTS folder to ORTS like I do !

O t t o

[baldwin]

I do the same thing Otto, but I do also have some routes directly in the Open Rails structure as outlined above.

[milw2042]

I was just looking at some screenshots from Diesel West web site of locomotives using OR with 3DTS’s Cajon Sub. Many of the shots look great and I want to use OR but my attempts have failed. I’ve installed OR, maybe incorrectly, and I will reinstall it but my question is: how do I use it with my payware routes? I have all the routes from SLI, 3DTS, MLT, Garber, and Ming so I am wondering can I use OR with them and if so how do I set it up. I realize the answer is probably involved so where can I read about how to use it with my routes?
Thanks, Rich

It could be your computer. I couldnt run OR until I installed a 1GB graphics card.

[eric]

Is OR failing to load? Is the route failing to show up as a selection? If it's showing as a selection and failing, can you provide a logfile?

[conductorchris]

Shouldn't be a difference for Open Rails between freeware and payware routes. Can you get a freeware route working?

[csantucci]

I do the same thing Otto, but I do also have some routes directly in the Open Rails structure as outlined above.

With the aim of not unnecessarily making things more difficult to Rich, what baldwin has done of course works but is unnecessary. Routes (freeware and payware) can remain where they have been installed first time. If they are in the standard Microsoft Games/Train Simulator directory they will be seen in the Route list of the ORTS menu together with the standard routes. If they are in a separate installation of train simulator, such additional installation path must be inserted into ORTS by means of the "add" button in the ORTS menu (see Otto's picture).

[apco25]

What attempts have you made to install Open Rails? That is not enough information to help us help you. Did you follow the install instuctions? For example OR won't work with out .NET 3.5.1 or XNA framework installed. Did you install those first?

[mikeebb]

Does OR require PRECISELY .Net 3.5.1 or will a .NET 4 or 4.5 install work as well? Yes, I know multiple .Net versions can coexist, but I prefer to keep things as clean as reasonably possible.

[MP36PH3S]

Only .NET 3.5. OR is not compatible with anything above or under it.

[apco25]

You won't have issues running multple version of .net. Various softwares use the different .net packages. Microsoft intends them to coexist together.