Simulation 'hangs' when R Abt trains should enter

[pblanksb]

I've looked through the forum, including the German and Dutch sections, but didn't find an answer, so my apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. Apologies also if this should be posted in the timetable thread, as I'm not sure if it's a TT or a sim issue.

I'm running Koblenz-Lutzel with the Rheingold 1996 timetable set to Mon June 06 1996 and have encountered the following problem. When an

'R Abt' (shunting loco?) movement is due to enter from either Gbf or Rheinhafen, the sim freezes with whatever trains are already on the sim staying where they are even though the Train Information window shows them as moving. At first I thought it was just a sim issue but when it happened a second and third time I went looking for the common denominator, which is the aforementioned 'R Abt' shunting movements.

When I right click on the train in the train information window I can view the consist but there are no timings visible. After starting a fresh sim from the time it froze until the next R Abt appeared a couple of times, I found that when the sim freezes with an R Abt in the train info window I just right click and select 'Cancel Train', the R Abt disappears and the sim unfreezes.

While it means I can work around the problem as detailed above, I am missing out on all the little shunt moves that go to make these sims more interesting than just running trains through my area of control. Has this problem been encountered by any other Koblenz-Lutzel users? Is it a known bug? I have saved sims if the developers need to see what I'm talking about.

Regards,

Phil.

[signalsoftRC]

mmm... that sounds like an easy reproducible bug. do you know even a start time for June 6th, 1996?

[pblanksb]

Hi Richard,

I started the sim at 0001hrs and all ran smoothly until the first R Abt was due from Stellwerk Kmf (5) at 0531. It happened again at 0622 with R Abt from Rheinhafen and again at 0731with R Abt from Stellwerk Kmf (5). This is as far as I have progressed through the timetable but I guess there must be others. On each occasion the only way I could get the sim to unfreeze was to right-click the train in the Train Information window and select 'Cancel Train'.

Looking through the movement orders for these moves at the bottom left of the Time Table window, they show Gl 13 which I am guessing is where Train Number window 13 is, but where is location 'KOCH'?

One other thing I've found is that when I hover my cursor over Track 2 at Koblenz-Lutzel station, no track number appears at the top left of the screen and nor does the Train Number window come up. The others do come up 1, 3 and 4.

I am running Version 3.2.0.5 and have checked for updates.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Phil.

[Fdl_Wo]

This problem was now also mentioned in the german section of the forum.

It seems that every time a "RAbt" appears, the simulation hangs (trains stop but time continues). You have to remove the "RAbt" and the trains will continue to move.

Manfred

[signalsoftRC]

interesting... I can reproduce it in the .5 version as release, but in the debugger, it spawns fine. Nothing changed.

Will update to .6 and see if it happens again.

[signalsoftRC]

mmm... seems to do it. As far as I know I didn't change anything... just updated it... weird.