SAM style maps discussion.....

[snoopy55]

Dwax, Rodea, are you two using Vista?

[dwax]

No have Win XP Still have no luck with it, gave it a couple times today and tried it the way Rodea did with no luck. I can use the regular version just fine.

I tried some of the others and they work just fine.

[snoopy55]

OK, delete any Saves, ScreenShots and Logs if you have them, zip your Sid Meier's Railroads! folder and upload it. It should come up to just under 7 Mb in size. I'll look at it.

Have you tried the other 4?

[Jancsika]

Most of you have played my "Middle Earth" scenario and it is SAM map and I was told that it is rock solid.

I just switched from XP to Vista and it plays in both.

When I play a scenario I have absolutely nothing else loaded in the CustomAssets and UserMaps Files.
Jancsika

[Rodea2007]

Well, I guess you win. I am not going to go on with this if someone is going to post that there is only one way to use these and it is not the way they have been used for the last 7 months.

No one has winner and also no has losses in here, I only talking about Your map CTD in my Computer and Dwax Computer

Don't let them get to you they work fine for me so i guess its all different for different systems.
If they don't work with the fpks in user maps and some other map didn't for me they can all ways move them to custom assets folder themselves. I do when i find they work that way. Keep up the good work and if they are to lazy to experiment like I do.

"I did before you did"

No have Win XP Still have no luck with it, gave it a couple times today and tried it the way Rodea did with no luck. I can use the regular version just fine.

Dwax...I just tried again those map as SAM and fortunelly those map can run fine. the secret is don't copy all extracted from zip file into UserMaps, but only folder with xml and bitmap file and fpk file ex. utah map only copy utah folder and utah.FPK into usermaps folder not include Utah_SAM folder, try it

[dwax]

OK, delete any Saves, ScreenShots and Logs if you have them, zip your Sid Meier's Railroads! folder and upload it. It should come up to just under 7 Mb in size. I'll look at it.

Have you tried the other 4?

LOL there is nothing in the files except the map and a config file. I will just keep playing the old version, and yes as I said, I can play the others with no problem.

[dwax]

snoopy...just incase someone else is having problems I will upload it, Be my luck it will run for you.

[dwax]

10 downloads, did anyone get it running?

[snoopy55]

Two of us downloaded it and got it running, but that doesn't count since we wrote it.

[dwax]

Kind of confused as to why it wouldn't work. Operating systems shouldn't interfere wit the game and the other Sams all worked. Never had any problems with Sam's until this one.

[vzbob]

10 downloads, did anyone get it running?

runs ok for me been playing for hours..

[snoopy55]

My cohort wants to know if you tried playing with any AIs?

[dwax]

My cohort wants to know if you tried playing with any AIs?

With and without,I tried everything I knew about.

[snoopy55]

Dwax, not sure if it will make any difference, but open RRT_Scenario_User_Utah.xml and go to the last few lines:

</Era>
</Eras>
<AICharacters />
</RRTScenario>

Delete <AICharacters /> and save. See if that does anything for you. That is part of the original map, but there may be things that bother stand alone maps on some machines/systems.

[dwax]

That never helped snoopy, it still CTD. I can't figgure out why it's just mine that it's doing this,it must be happing to someone else too.