On the basis of that, I've changed my mind: the advice now is " Move away your TRAINS folder if you want to keep rolling stock intact.". So on my machines at least, you can get corruption of existing rolling stock folder contents if using XP SP3 or higher. I went back to an old XP SP2 machine and performed an experimental re-install and the TRAINS folder survived the re-install. I had occasion to re-install an MSTS on an XP SP3 machine and found that many items of rolling stock no longer functioned properly - missing. I've been there, done that, torn my hair out!!).ĮDIT/UPDATE: I used to say here "I also move my TRAINSET folder and CONSISTS folder, but I've not seen them corrupted in a re-install." Leaving them in the \Routes subfolder and re-installing MSTS seems to corrupt non-default routes (you end up with tracks and objects, but no terrain at least or an unusable route at worst - believe me. If you're going to uninstall (I recommend uninstall then re-install) your MSTS, move all your non-default routes away from your MSTS\Routes folder BEFORE uninstalling.>/p> If you're using Windows 7 (or Vista), read Installing MSTS on a Windows 7 PC.
(By the way, if you're using Internet Explorer 8 or higher, select "Compatibility View" to ensure correct display). I know that theoretically you'll never have to re-install MSTS once installed (yet look at the registry hacks and other fixes that abound on the 'Net) but you sometimes need to consider the amount of time that you can spend time trying to work out which add-on caused the problem: at some point it becomes more time-effective to re-install MSTS than to continue to chase every rabbit down every burrow. I'm not suggesting for a moment that whenever you see the screenshot above, you should re-install MSTS, but sometimes there is no other way to correct some of MSTS' weirdnesses that crop up from time to time (for example, my last failure was that MSTS stopped recognising electric locomotives - it didn't matter whether they were default or add-ons, they simply were not recognised by the game). It is not intended to be a full list of available utilities, patches, physics upgrades and fixes, but rather just the basic necessities that you should consider immediately after (re)installing MSTS. Whether you're installing MSTS for the first time or, as many of us seem to, for the umpteenth time, this checklist of the basic "essential" steps will get your MSTS installation "back on the tracks" in a minimum of time with a minimum of frustration.
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