Error Running ORTS

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Have to use my older WIN-XP SP2 computer, the WIN-XP SP3 having expired 2 days ago and after setting up my no-Internet computer to be able to access the Internet I updated the WIN-XP2 Internet computer with the latest to be used mainly for e-mail and visiting the forums, as well as my 32-bit Accounting software.

Set it up to run ORTS and below shows that it could not.

Computer has 1GB RAM, XNA 3.1. and .Net 4 are installed.

It is working alright on the WIN-7 64-bit 8GB RAM computer, but it not running all the time would prefer to use the WIN-XP SP2 computer.

Any advice will be appreciated !




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[ChrisD]

Hi Otto.

Have You tried updating Your .NET to 4.5?

ChrisD

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Have You tried updating Your .NET to 4.5?

Hi Chris !

I started with downloading the most recent version. 4.5.2, but it and the earlier 4.5 are not suitable for WIN-XP !

[cjakeman]

HI Otto,

Open Rails currently needs .NET v3.5 and doesn't yet work with .NET v4.0

It worked on your Win7 PC as that OS includes the .NET v3.5 code.

Hope that helps,

[mikeebb]

Not just for ORTS, I have found in the past that my computers needed:

XP: .NET 1.1, 2.0, and 3.5 (still had some software that needed 1.1; 2.0 turned out to be unnecessary after 3.0 came out, but why bother removing?)
Win7: .NET 3.5x, and 4.x (no more 1.1 software, and 3.5x covers 2.0 well enough)
Win8 and later: no experience, but some other fora suggest that there are issues with .NET prior to 3.5, and with XNA prior to 4, though they can be worked out. Presumably, what worked (eventually) in Win8 will still work in 10.

From other statements, ORTS is apparently version-specific at 3.5. Remember, you can have as many major versions of .NET installed as you want: if you need them, you could have 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 (which does have some differences from 3.0), and 4.x (only on Vista and up). Just takes up space (like all those Visual C/C++ runtimes, which seem to have to be installed for almost every piece of software these days).

Regarding XNA: has been discussed many times in these fora - ORTS requires 3.1. Question never clearly answered though: can I have BOTH 3.1 and 4.0 on the same machine (as with the parallel installs of .NET, VC++ runtimes, etc.) without killing ORTS? Not just a XP question...

Bottom line: Otto needs .NET 3.5 and XNA Framework 3.1 (service packs and security updates for both are strongly recommended) for ORTS in XP. Both are still available from MS doenloads.

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Thanks for trying to help guys, but:








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[ChrisD]

Otto.

I am glad You made it work

ChrisD