My has it been a while

[BigBoy10]

Hello all,
I'm not dead! I've moved, lost ability to play almost any simulator, reinstalled 3 times, and still was forced to download Win8.1. I'm attempting to re-install my library of OR and MSTS stock, however I have encountered an issue

With no backup (cuz I was young and stupid when I did it) I don't have any files for OR or MSTS. I won't go on as to what I had and how easy/hard it was to get them to work properly, but I will say that I don't think it's worth it to me to re-install all this without a proper way to run it, due to my setup (still that dumb laptop).

I have been attempting to get TS15 to work (I'll make another forum post for that one) and so far, I haven't been able to do ANY train simming due to these problems. I do, however, hope that my issues get settled or are no-longer an issue. I will talk more if there are questions, but here's why I made this post.

A friend of mine sent me a link to a base Global folder for MSTS, allowing me to play OR. I do not have any stock nor routes, but hope that it's worth it. I have attempted to install it and just don't feel like trying to do all these things anymore. I've worked on it for 30 days on and off, at max 3 hours, at minimum 15 minutes, and it just stresses me out more due to homework, schoolwork, injuries, pain, and overall issues with school, home life, and physical disabilities. This isn't really helping my case with wanting to do it because of how often it just causes issues. If somebody has any tips on doing this easier or better, since MSTS doesn't install correctly when I attempt to anymore and OR needs stock and such, I'd be willing to hear you out to allow me to do these things.

Back to personal life, quickly. I may not be online for days/weeks/months on end due to the fact I do not have internet at my home, I bring my laptop to my grandmother's house or to the Starbucks down the street. It just is easier that way. It doesn't work too badly, but still is an issue because of the downloads required and many more things I wish to not bring up. This means I can't play any of my steam games when I want and other problems I won't get into. I know this is a long post, but hear me out on this last issue.

After thinking about it, why would I install a now outdated-looking simulator when most of the routes are already on TS15, but what good are they if they keep breaking when I attempt to play them. Just an issue of mine I can't fix or decide on my own.

'Tis all for now, my thoughts are all jumbled so sorry if it doesn't make much sense. Just, really want to get any simulator of mine to work now because all of these things cause issues with internet, time management, and others.

[baldwin]

You will probably get some constructive answers if you were to tell us the specs of your computer. What processor, how much ram, what video etc.

An issue is not a good description to use either when describing your problem.

[markus1996]

It´s all about a structured approach

What we need to know first is your PC specs, most importantly (especially OOperating System, Graphics Card, Processor (& speed), and RAM + VRAM).

Then we can go on to finding reasons why different things don´t work as expected, and only then we can do troubleshooting.



A personal note of mine: I have been in such a situation myself multiple times. Probably everybody has been. That´s just normal, a part of life. It´s important, though, to learn to deal with it. My way to deal with such times in life is this:

• Most importantly, stay calm. Getting overly nervous, or hysterical, won´t do any good, rather it´ll do the opposite by blocking your thoughts and preventing you from working efficiently.
• Keeping calm helps to and is helped by keeping a clear, structured overview of what your goals are, and by when you want to reach them. Find out what you want to achieve, think about how to achieve them, then break things down into smaller steps.
• Smaller steps are easier to get done, and being able to cross out something on your list is a (small)success. The helps you get a more positive mindset, which help the overall situation.
• It helps to write those smaller steps down on a sheet of paper as a to-do-list, hereby giving things priorities (real life over hobbies, for example) or ordering them (e.g. steps to reach a bigger goal).
• In the end, you have in hands a plan that you can simply work with by picking an item from the list and doing it without worrying about other stuff. The stuff is on the list, so it doesn´t have to be in your head, where it blocks you thoughts while working on something else.
• For things that shall be added to the to-do-list, I keep a second list where I simply write down the additions. Once or twice day, I then re-asses the to-do-list, crossing out the items already done, and combining the two lists into a new to-do-list.

The same approach can be applied to roubleshooting your trainsim problems - see the first part of my post.

Cheers, and all the best,

Markus