"Load Error" when selecting activity

[up5799]

Encountered a problem with an Open Rails route (originally MSTS circa 2004) I never saw before. The route is the FCU (Ferrovia Centrale Umbra) an Italian route which comes with one default activity. The default activity runs fine, but when I select either of the two activities I downloaded I get a message in the OR start menu activity box "load error" and the start button is greyed out. As I mentioned, when I select the default activity the activity loads find. Since I cannot run OR when I select the activities I downloaded there is no Open Rails log to examine. I tried running both routes through RR, Activity Manager AND Conbuilder, and the consists and trainsets are all good. This has me really puzzled can't figure out what is going on.

[yellowdog]

Did you load the route into the Track Viewer, then Path-Editor to ensure the paths were set up properly?

[uli2]

Did you check that the "RouteID" in the route's .trk file and the "RouteID" in the .ACT files of the activities you downloaded are identical?

[c44d9w]

In the main menu there is a Tools button, under which there is a tool called Content Manager. The Content Manager lets you navigate content files, from Route to Activities to Services to Paths. Try it and navigate to the different parts of the route (incl. Consists). It may provide a clue, or give a better error message.

[derekmorton]

Slipperman has a suite of utilities, one of which is called MSTS_Actman, it will log your problem for you.

Available in the library here.

[bootednancy]

I find if I change consists, designations or static Cons. and I try to run it in OR....the start screen tells me I have a "Load Error" in something (Path, Engine, Consist, etc) Doesn't tell me where. but I open up TSRE5 and get the route "live" in the viewer, hit F4 to change it into Activity mode from Route building.....and go over all the elements (Traffic, Con, Path or Srv files and reload them with that program, it usually brings the files in line and get rid of the error warning.

Doug
PS: Like your avatar...(.the 1950's LIRR scheme on an MU) I'm a LIRR boy from way back also

[up5799]

Figured it out ran the OR Content Manager, turns out several of the .eng files were corrupt, the file names were correct but the content was garbled. Reinstalled those files and everything ran fine. OR Content Manager really helped with troubleshooting this!

[Tonya37]

Version 2 (2010) is available from

https://www.simtreni.com/download/redirect.php?dlid=53&ENGINEsessID=8c24111174cd6bed84c7eeadfb76054a

Tony A