TSRE keeps bringing up a black screen

[trainlover2923]

Good afternoon gentlemen....Every time I try to open up the consist editor it just brings up a black screen. It was working fine this morning but now it's not. I haven't done anything different or moved any files. As a matter of fact I keep all my Open Rails stuff on drive C. I have attached the error log so any help would be greatly appreciated. tsre-log-20250830-1642.txt

[oper190]

I have attached the error log so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roburt - From what I see, maybe someone else see more, but your missing the folder the trains are being looked in for:
error.jpg
Either the folder is named wrong or TSRE is looking in the wrong place.

[trainlover2923]

Thanks for the quick response.....Yeah I thought the same thing as well. But the main folder that I have everything in is ORTSContent. They have been in that folder for the past few months with out any problems. Like I said everything was working fine this morning and went to go do a few arrans came back this afternoon and now this. I have even tried earlier versions and they too do the exact same thing. I am at my wits in on this.

[trainlover2923]

I even ran the route editor it is even doing the same thing.....I am at a total loss as to what is happening here. It's acting like it's being blocked...by what I have no clue. But here is the logs to the cerecent and the error log..... cerecent.txt.......tsre-log-20250830-1838.txt

[trainlover2923]

I did a fresh restall and found out before I even direct it to the correct folder that I kicks it back out saying no trains found. /trains not exist: "/trains" Its looking for a folder that clearly doesn't exist or ever existed. I am totally baffled as to why this is happening.

[yellowdog]

Not sure why you would have a Trains subfolder within another Trains subfolder, but I guess to each their own.

Beyond that, mine is set up to look for the main folder, which I believe in your case would be C:/Trainsimulations. But with the aforementioned folder structure that your report indicates, I can't really be certain how you have yours set up to tell you how to fix it.

[trainlover2923]

That's the mystery I don't......My set up is as follows......C:/ORTSContent/Global...Routes/Shasta...Mullen/Sound.....Trains/Consists/ORTS_eot/Trainset.....Utils....I have it set up just like the old MSTS days I never changed it. So I have no clue as to why the TSRE-ReleaseCandidate-v8.005 is even pointing that way. And like I said in my earlier post before I even point it to the right folder it says no trains found or routes. tsre-log-20250831-1245.txt <-----This is a log before I even point it to the right folder. tsre-log-20250831-1245.txt <-----this is the log after I point it to the folder

[slipperman]

Hi Roburt,
From what you've posted, it appears that you don't have the correct folder hierarchy.
Post #2 screenshot shows that Trainsimulations is the root folder of that installation - where does folder ORTSContent appear?

Based on that screenshot, your folder hierarchy should be :
C:\
..Trainsimulations
........GLOBAL
........ROUTES
............Shasta
.................ACTIVITIES etc
............Mullen
.................ACTIVITIES etc
........SOUND
........TRAINS
............CONSISTS
............TRAINSET

Note 1 - GLOBAL, ROUTES, SOUND and TRAINS must be direct sub-folders of the installation's root folder
Note 2 - Each route folder also has its own SOUND sub-folder.

Cheers,
Ged

[eric]

Delete the cerecent file. It gets rebuilt if missing.

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[trainlover2923]

Here are the images hopefully this will explain betterScreenshot (7).png Screenshot (8).png Screenshot (9).png Screenshot (10).png Screenshot (11).png Screenshot (12).png Screenshot (13).png

[yellowdog]

Did you click on the c:/ortscontent bar? When I do that, mine turns orange. And then I click Load. I don't get the Load option until I click the bar, and clearly yours is displaying Load even though the bar is still black.

[yellowdog]

For what it's worth, mine is working and I still get the message /trains not exist: "/trains"

[geepster775]

The black indeed looks like a darker shade of black, inferring that the app may be hung or blocked rather than operating normally and just displaying a black backdrop.

Semantics: There is OR content, and there is MSTS content that is suitable to run in OR. The SD35s in your Trainset folder are not OR grade content. Work to label things properly, so try the editor on an installation that contains actual OR content, and only OR grade content, first. I placed the CSX SD45 pack in a separate folder to try that out.

When you download 8.005, there is no settings file, no logs, no recent accessed lists.

Opening the RE once and doing nothing before closing it out again should generate the settings file and the first log entry. Opening the consist editor and choosing an installation should generate the cerecent (consist editor recent) file and add to it every time you choose a different installation. The cerecent file can be deleted and generated fresh at any time. Do not transplant an existing older version Settings File.

I will say that every time I opened the CE, I used to get an Nvidia GeForce overlay notification briefly splash on the upper corner of the screen. Until I went in to GEForce Experience and changed/shut off certain notification settings.

I also see references to OneDrive infecting your computer in your screens. Lets hope you are controlling that properly and TSRE is not looking for low-use content that OneDrive decided to send to the cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBojSgU-cl4

[trainlover2923]

The black indeed looks like a darker shade of black, inferring that the app may be hung or blocked rather than operating normally and just displaying a black backdrop.

Thats my thoughts as well. But I cant figure out why its being blocked. I haven't done anything different. The investigation is still on going.

The SD35s in your Trainset folder are not OR grade conten

I took those out....I totally forgot they were even in there.

I also see references to OneDrive infecting your computer in your screens. Lets hope you are controlling that properly and TSRE is not looking for low-use content that OneDrive decided to send to the cloud

Thats odd that you even spot that since I don't even have an account with Onedrive I never have.

[geepster775]

'unauthororized' onedrive has been a feature since win 10 bloat appeared at a time when many win 10 early adopters had small 128 gb ssd system drives. There are plenty of vids out there showing users how to remove unwanted onedrive presence