Can you help me on this one?

[Sly]

First of all, I am VERY excited to have found a "download" link that works for me to obtain TTDX for Windows. I only had the (purchased) DOS version, but have since upgraded to WinXP Pro. Also, I have found and purchased yesterday on E-Bay, a BRAND NEW & SEALED packaged Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows. Should get here in about a week!

The problem I have:

I installed and patched (1.8.1. patch) TTDX yesterday. I was "glued" to it for at least 6 hours. I saved my game and retired for the night. This morning, I got up, fired up TTDX, loaded my saved game. After about 3 seconds, TTDX FROZE UP. I tried everything from deleting the .ovl file, running the "TTDX Configurator" so it would create a "fresh" .ovl file. Nothing works.

Can you help me please?

Thanks in advance

[CombatGold1]

Remove the whole game, backup the saved games if you have any and re-install the game and patch. There must have been a glitch with the patch installation.

[spaceman-spiff]

have you tried TTDAlter ? , it has an option to delete and re-create the .OVL file
i have no problems like yours, so i would try everything

[CombatGold1]

TTD Alter? oh yeah that really huge cheat thingy.

[spaceman-spiff]

Originally posted by CombatGold1
TTD Alter? oh yeah that really huge cheat thingy.

when will you get over it

[GoneWacko]

maybe you should:

open ttdpatch.cfg in notepad, and then search for win2k (press CTRL+F)... make sure it says win2k on !!!

[spaceman-spiff]

Originally posted by GoneWacko
maybe you should:

open ttdpatch.cfg in notepad, and then search for win2k (press CTRL+F)... make sure it says win2k on !!!

actually he said, the game ran good and suddenly the day after his saved game doesn´t run anymore, so i don´t think it´s a problem with the cfg file

Sly, have you tried starting a new game ?
if so , does it work ?
please try this a few times and let us know

[CombatGold1]

Originally posted by spaceman-spiff

Originally posted by CombatGold1
TTD Alter? oh yeah that really huge cheat thingy.

when will you get over it

never

[Sly]

Ok, I followed your instructions to uninstall the game (I saved the game that gave me those crashes before hand). I re-installed everything, re-applied the patch. It now works.

I figured out what was causing these crashes:

I was using the program: TTDX Configurator to set up most of the "switches". It obviously was causing the crashes, because after I did a fresh install (without running this program) my saved game worked fine (except that I was getting the message that the vehicle mutliplier minimum of 3 was required to play this saved game). But it worked. I exited the game, launched TTDX Configurator, and restarted that saved game..... it crashed again.

So it was the culprit!

Again, thanks for all your help! Much appreciated.

Sly

[spaceman-spiff]

i don´t use this configurator
i delete my .cfg file, let the game re-create one and go into it with notepad
you get to know these switches after a while
oh well, this seems to be a good solution for lot´s of things
that´s why it is good to do a re-install or re-format when you are stuck on an error
cya Sly

[anaconda]

I started out with the standard cfg file, and then added the switches as the new patches was made.

[CombatGold1]

I started with the standard, I only changed the switch that allows Windows NT, 2000 and XP use the game.

[spaceman-spiff]

Originally posted by anaconda
I started out with the standard cfg file, and then added the switches as the new patches was made.

how do you know then if other switches haven´t changed

[anaconda]

I RTFM or the changes at every patch But you´ve got a point there. I´ll think I remake my cfg file when the 1.8.2 is official. I´m too lazy to edit it for every alpha release.

[CombatGold1]

I´m 44% Lazy acording to http://www.thespark.com