Conquering Vista

"Does Trainz work with Vista?" I've been asked a number of times at train shows. Until now I could only cite what I've seen on the forums: "Yes, BUT ....."

Some people seem to have no difficulty; others do. I now am one of the latter. I've read on the forums that you can get around Vista's over protectiveness by installing Trainz using the Run as Administrator command applied to the installation executable. That didn't do it for me.

Chris Cordes, the US Distributor for Trainz, passed on a solution that had been brought up in his programming group: Install Trainz someplace other than in the C:\Program Files directory. In other words, instead of this (which is the default):

C:\Program Files\Auran\Trainz

use this (for example):

C:\Games\Auran\Trainz or C:\Auran\Trainz

It worked. I now have TRS2004 and TRS2006 running without a hitch. I haven't tried Tainz Classics on this new machine yet.

Al

Rail Simulator Release Date Announced

Rail Simulator, the new train simulator from Kuju and Electronic Arts, is scheduled to be released in Europe on Friday, 5 October 2007. A US release date has not been announced.

Al

New at the VR Reading Room: Jamesport Route

JAMESPORT IS A FICTIONAL SEASIDE SWITCHING RAILROAD that can be used
in modular fashion to be added to any route or operated on its own
using portals.

This new article by John D'Angelo is at the VR Reading Room

This Trainz route is at the VR Downloads page

Cheers,
Al

Bearpaw Lumber Company Route for Trainz

THE BEARPAW LUMBER COMPANY ROUTE is a simple switching layout designed to demonstrate the workings of Trainz dynamic industries. You may find it addictive.

The complete article is at the VR Reading Room. The route and sessions are available for free download at the Virtual Railroader Downloads page.

Cheers,

Al