Lake Central & Mountain Railroad issue

[stlsf4003]

Anyone on here ever downloaded this route?

If so. Is there a way to install it to Open Rails without MSTS installed? Cause the damn installer keeps telling me to install MSTS first and it wont go an any further that.

[bwbrgb]

Where is the download from ?

[stlsf4003]

https://www.trainsim.ch/filelist/?ca=3CDB3124-C046-FE91-05A2-E02AA9FD5155

[crstagg]

Anyone on here ever downloaded this route?

If so. Is there a way to install it to Open Rails without MSTS installed? Cause the damn installer keeps telling me to install MSTS first and it wont go an any further that.

Probably because the installer is going to copy shapes and textures from the original MSTS 6 routes.

[geepster775]

I see there are repaints in the FL here dated 2003, so yea, if it's from that time era I'd say 99.6% of the assets needed by it come from 6 default routes, and without them running the installer is an exercise in futility.

[stlsf4003]

I've got the 6 default's. I just don't have the game.

[Vince]

Bad news if the installer is looking for the MSTS data block in the registry.

[stlsf4003]

Well shoot. That'll throw a monkey wrench in the works.

And this right here is why we've moved away from using (almost) anything from MSTS. It's just holds us back.

[baldwin]

Have you contacted Marcel who built the route? His site is still running.

[slipperman]

Hi stlsf4003,
Please remember that this route was released in 2009!! It NEEDS the MSTS Registry entry to locate the correct folder. The route doesn't seem to copy files from the MSTS default routes, and there's no installme.bat file, BUT Route_Riter reports over 20 texture files and 1 shape file missing, all which can be obtained from the default routes.

The route may be installed by creating a dummy MSTS Registry entry, but bear in mind the missing files.

Cheers,
Ged

[rdayt]

If you use 7Zip, sometimes, you can unzip the installer as an archive and then move the route where you want it.

Randy

[slipperman]

Hi Randy,
That's an excellent suggestion, but, sorry, it doesn't help!
Unpacking Setupstart.exe reveals setup.exe and Setup_LCM_V13.msi. Running the .msi file still requires a Registry entry to point to an MSTS root folder.

Merry Christmas!!

Cheers,
Ged

[baldwin]

The route installer needs to be changed to reflect the changed conditions of today where people may well not have MSTS installed. The only person who can change that is Marcel who made the route.

[rdayt]

Try unpacking setup.exe.
I've never tried to extract an msi before but you could also try that.

Randy

[stlsf4003]

The route installer needs to be changed to reflect the changed conditions of today where people may well not have MSTS installed. The only person who can change that is Marcel who made the route.

I'ed honestly try and contact him if it wasn't a for two issues.

1. I don't think he speaks English. So that's a bit of a language barrier to work around.
2. There just doesn't seem to be anyway to get a hold of him.