O R load but there is no game response

[jacquespelser]

Hi
I've down loaded O R V-0.9 for the 1st time and installed it, with all the required additional MS soft ware.
O R starts up fine with sound and outside camera but thats all. You sit at about 45 degrees left front outside your locomotive and thats it, the sounds sound good, the bell and horn works, but no movement and no controls, like
brake release or foreward selection or move around. Could this be a computer soft ware or a hard ware problem.
The computer is a AMD gamers MB with a athlon dual core 64 bit processor 2.8 ghz 5200 with 4GB memory and a
GForce FX 5200 video card with 2 Acer LCD 21" monitors. I've noticed some where it was mentioned that you need a
FX 5600 video card.
I hope this is a fixable problem because the environment around the train looks all ready pretty good.
Best regards to every one
Jacques

[sidp]

Did you try clicking inside the window to make it active? I found that is sometimes necessary in Win 7.
Sid P.

[jacquespelser]

Hi to every one,
I've forgot to mention that my computer has MS Win XP Pro OS with all the updates. I've noticed that OR_v09 does not have the following folders, according to the installation html., Menu.xml , MenuWPF.EXE , and Reader.dll. I did not see them at the ORTS Site
or in the OR_09.zip down load folder and think that I need to get them from some where.
The O R start up page seems to mis some items, like "Switch Menu Stile"
Thank you so far and best regards
Jacques

[rdamurphy]

Did you press the "1" key to move inside the cab? You probably want to press the F1 key to learn all of the keyboard commands that can be used.

Robert

[jacquespelser]

Hi,
I've printed all the 35 pages of the O R operating manual, following all the instructions, and tried all the prescribed commands but as I
mentioned in the 1rst thread posted, nothing works except the horn and bell. and there are still items missing from the traditional
Windows Main Menu at start up, it does not have the "Switch Menu Style" item (button). I still think this down load has some
folders missing, and I still need to obtain them from some where.
Best regards to all
Jacques

[slipperman]

Hi Jacques,
The "Switch Menu Style" is no longer available in v0.9. Also, I don't have the files you mentioned in my installation, and everything works OK. As far as I'm aware, there is only one source for OpenRails!!

To determine why your OR won't work, I suggest you check your own setup. If you're using Vista, Win 7 or Win 8, you haven't put OR in Program Files or Program Files (x86), have you?

Cheers,
Ged

[rdamurphy]

I'm thinking it could be a keyboard issue. Are you using a keyboard layout other than English?

Can you post the log file here so I can take a look at it?

And you may wish to go here and download the experimental release and try that one:

http://www.openrails.org/experimental.html

Robert

[WSteven1]

Having the same problem as Jacques in that the 'Start' button is missing from my version. I am running Windows XP with all updates on a Lenovo Netbook. Even downloaded Direct X 9 to see if that would work but no difference...the "Start" button is still missing...help!!
Bill Stevens

[WSteven1]

Still no 'Start' button

Just downloaded and installed the developmental release but still no 'Start' button...would appreciate hearing from others who had this problem how they fixed it...thanks!

[baldwin]

When you say "no Start button", is that literally nothing there, or is it present, but greyed out?.

[lindsayts]

Just in case anyone is wondering the current version of OR DOES OK in WIndows XP pro.

Lindsay

[csantucci]

The start button is greyed out as long as the "Route:", "Activity:", "Locomotive:", "Consist", "Starting at:" and "Heading to:" fields remain empty. Is this your case? If all these fields are greyed out, it means that you have to modify your Installation Profile with buttons Add and Edit. The Installation Profile defines where your Train Simulator folders are.