Running the 6 default MSTS routes in Open Rails

[BANKURA]

Greetings everyone
I recently copied the "GLOBAL, ROUTES, SOUNDS & TRAINS" folders from MSTS to their respective locations in Open Rails. But when I tried to run the "Northeast Corridor", it showed me an error which said "Open Rails Activity Runner stopped working".
Now the same route ran without errors in my MSTS game installed on Windows 7. Then why is it showing errors in Open Rails??? I installed Xtracks, Newroads, SD40-2 Content Update, Class50 Content Update as well as Train Update. But still it doesn't run. Am I missing something here???
Please help
Regards
Ankur

[baldwin]

You leave those folders in MSTS and use Open Rails to run the routes from there. If you want to set up something purely for OR, then make a new folder, copy those 4 folders into the new location and use the OR menu (Options/Content) to add the new folder.

[BANKURA]

Dear Baldwin sir
I installed the 6 routes in the same location where my another Indian route I.e. "msts.zip" was installed and is running perfectly. But still I'm facing the error that "open rails activity runner stopped working". When exactly does this error show up & how to fix it???
Regards
Ankur

[baldwin]

What does the Open Rails log tell you? If your Indian route is working, and you copied those folders into the same location, they will work as well.

[BANKURA]

Greetings Baldwin Sir
Here's the log file for the Northeast Corridor in Explore mode.OpenRailsLog.zip

[burgerbern]

Looking at that log it appears that your tsection.dat file is out of date i believe the latest one is something like Version 46 in this library as filename tsection46.zip it appears the one you are using does not list the tracks you need

[BANKURA]

Greetings to Everyone
I'd put up this question to 1 member on Youtube on seeing his video of Northeast Corridor running In Open Rails. He advised me to keep the installation of MSTS & Open Rails separately but call them through the "add content" option on OR. I tried doing that on my laptop which has Windows 8.1 OS. Unfortunately, MSTS doesn't work on my laptop but it runs perfectly on my PC having Windows 7.
I installed MSTS in F:\ drive and Open Rails was already present in E:\ Drive. Now as advised, I created 2 installation profiles, namely one for OR and the other for MSTS. Then I tried running the 6 default MSTS routes by referring them to the F:\ Drive & BRAVO!!!! The route was up & running and all the errors as reported in the earlier log file were banished in thin air. I was overjoyed.
So, what I learnt from this is even though MSTS might not work in your system, but still its installation is essential to make certain routes work. Maybe that's what is meant by that statement in OR Manual that "Open Rails is not responsible for the failure of any MSTS related content if any".
Now in my excitement, the inconvenience caused by 2 different simulators as well as the errors in running other routes in Open Rails, it was a frequent scenario that Open Rails required content from MSTS. The missing items would show up in Route Riter & on analysis, it was found that it was present in MSTS installation.
So I copied all the Open Rails files (GLOBAL, ROUTES, SOUND, TRAINS) into my MSTS installation so that it could become a 1-stop solution for all my rail gaming. But that was the biggest mistake.
The 6 default MSTS routes which were earlier running perfectly in OR again started showing the same errors viz "Open Rails Activity Runner stopped working". So, I guess I'll have to keep both the installations separate as earlier eventhough that might cause a bit of inconvenience with the large number of overlapping files.
Now that brings myself to a very big question. Most of the routes available on this site & elsewhere are designed with the tagline of "MSTS". So if it isn't specified in the route files about its dependency on MSTS then how to decide as to which route goes in which installation????MSTS or OR??
Or is it that by default, all new routes should go under MSTS installation???
On a side note, the same NEC corridor while ruuning on OR gave a better impression than on MSTS in all the senses of the word be it scenery, graphics, sounds etc. My personal view though.
Regards
Ankur

[baldwin]

If a route includes an Installme.bat file, it requires files from MSTS. So first of all install it into your MSTS routes folder, then run the Installme.bat file if it does not run automatically. When that is finished, check the route with RouteRiter to make sure nothing was missed, then you can move the route to your OR profile.