| About this product | |
|---|---|
| Product | Sid Meier's Railroads |
| Vendor | Take 2 |
| Tested operating systems | Windows Vista 32 Bit Windows Vista 64 Bit Windows XP 32 Bit Windows XP 64 Bit |
| Average rating | |
| CompatDB XML | sid-meiers-railroads.xml |
Compatibility Reports for Sid Meier's Railroads
Reported by azjay
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Works for a few mins then crashes to desktop. Contacted 2kgames however haven't heard back. Seems to be something related to audio processing?
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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This is the only solutions for vista ultimate and XP. I have searched the internet for days and found the solution which i like to share with my fans.
First you have to enable large address aware in your os, see link: http://eric.bkbobby.com/media/index.php?title=Railroads:LARGEADDRESSAWARE (only do step 4!!)
Then download: http://www.musikbanken.se/TechLaaTiDo.aspx ,this is a great and easy to use tool to patch the game file(railroads.exe)
I can tell i am playing now for 24 hours straight without any crash, even in vista while the game originaly was designed for XP!!
This LAA thing also works for many other games like Fallout, oblivious etc...
BTW: Restart your os after you enabled LAA in dos, otherwise it will not work, i did not know about the restart and took me a day to find out why it was not working...)
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 64 Bit
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Like everybody else here, the game crashs once it gets complex. I have a new top-of-line 4G ram, and massive video card computer. I have discovered that it crashes when it uses up all the non-cached "free" physical memory. As you may know, there is not much of that with Vista, as Vista "caches" much of the ram. even so, the cached memory is supposed to be able to be utilized. But, for what ever reason, the railroads game is unable to access the cached memory, thereby rendering my 4G into about a 800mb system. the game is brilliantly complex in detail, thus uses up that 800mb rather quickly into the game. you'd think firaxis would have a patch for this, or that Vista would realize that the program needs more memory, and un-cache some.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Download the demo from gamespot.com or any other downlaod site of your choice when install run the demo for a while and see the diffrents it makes on the demo then on the full version game then when your ready to play full version insert the sid meier's railroads! disk in the computer DO NOT INSTALL IF ASKED TO!!!! run the full version off the demo icon on your computer YES IT WILL STILL BE THE FULL GAME!!!!
What this dose is the demo is a watered down version of the game so you dont have all the stuff on the game to make it crash(all game makers makes demos playable on all operating systems no matter what so you will buy it but when you do it dont work on your opperating system you have or it has issues)so when you run it in the demo mode it tricks the computer thinking its a demo not the full version WHICH IT IS!!!! and then it will work with out crashes, lock-ups, system crashes, blue screens, lagging, ETC. you get the picture
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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SMR Version 1.1.PL. Intel P4HT Prescott 3GHz CPU, ATI 1950PRO AGP 256MB, Kingston 1,5GB RAM, Microsoft Windows XP ENG SP 3.
Game works under WinXP-SP3 for about one or two hours with sound but then always crashes at Multiplayer LAN mode when routing becomes complicated - after placing new rails.
With game in english lang version - do diffrence.
Can anybody can post any solution to this?
Best Regards,
Kris.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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It crashes for me too. As soonas you lay a complex rail line, it crashes. Updated video drivers the lot, nothing works. I turned off Antalising and it last a bit longer. Going to install SP1 for vista tonight and see if that works...let you know...
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 64 Bit
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Installed on Vista Ultimate X64, opens and runs for about 30 seconds and dies, tried every other suggestion and nothing seems to work...
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Installing Vista SP1 corrected crashing problems for me. Before SP1, could not play for longer than about 3-5 minutes, or the time before double track starts to get laid.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Frequently Crashes
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Game crashes every time I play it on Windows Vista. Doesn't last more than 10 minutes. The latest patch doesn't seem to address it. Guess we'll have to wait until they come out with a patch to fix it!
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 64 Bit
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Vista Home Premium 64-bit, C2D E6600, 4GB RAM, GF8800GTX, game crashes if played in full-screen. Using 3GB enabler doesn't help.
I've found kind of solution (at least for small maps...): you have to run the game in window (not full screen) and disable Anti-Aliasing. Try not to maximize the game window as it starts to look pretty bad. Better solution is to move the game window up, so that the title bar is almost invisible.
It works well for small maps. I could play all bundled maps without crashes. Larger maps cause crash, anyway - the system takes more than 2GB of RAM and the game is over...
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Game worked great for XP. I now have Vista and it sucks! I loved this game and now I cant stand it. I had XP, 2 GB, and one 6800 GT OC. I upgraded to 4 GB and 2 8600 GTS OC and it tells me driver error every once and a while. They need to patch this quickly!
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Works for about 3 or 4 mins then crashes to desktop. Have emailed distributors and their response was to run with compatibility mode for win2000. When turned on, game is more stable but still crashes every 10-15 mins.
Come on guys... how difficult is it to get this to work with a new patch... make us happy!
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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crashes to desktop, after laying track, plays for ~10 mins with sound off, 2mins with sound on.
pity looks like a fun game, just cant play it for long...
amd 4200,crossfire 1950's, 2gb ram
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 64 Bit
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Works OK on my Windows XP Professional 32-bit. Works for hours also on Windows Vista x64 but only with sounds turned off. With sounds on, crashes usually pretty soon, usually after placing a station or laying more track. Vista says the program has become unresponsive, and the only option is to terminate the program.
The soundcard is the integrated SoundMax HD on the ASUS P5N32E-SLI motherboard. VGA: 8800GTS. RAM: 2GB. Processor: Core2Duo E6600
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Crashed to desktop so far every game I've played once I get a few cities linked up. I am on the latest patch as well v1.1.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 64 Bit
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Regular crashes to desktop
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Crash to desktop after several minutes of play with complex track layouts or routing.
Version distributed via Steam.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Patch 1.10
