Leeds Loop Nightmare

[petethetim]

Leeds Loop Came this morning, I installed it but the little coupling programme did not run So I did it manually & then installed new Roads patch.

Now I can not get anything of ECE 1 ,2 or 3 to run & even though it appears unstored in "Train Store" It is not available route in the route selection screen ..
Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.....

 

[AlexS]

You're better off

 

[petethetim]

Well just to update I've got a dodgy copy I replaced my Global Folder & EC Parts 1 & 2 From a back up I keep on an external HDD & tried again & only 29% of it installed So I will await a replacement

 

[richa2002]

Well just to update I've got a dodgy copy I replaced my Global Folder & EC Parts 1 & 2 From a back up I keep on an external HDD & tried again & only 29% of it installed So I will await a replacement

Why on earth did you buy it?

 

[petethetim]

Why on earth did you buy it?

I am asking myself the same question mate , I secretly live in hope that they will eventually extend it all the way to Waverley

 

[petethetim]

All is well that ends Well Got it swapped

 

[Coxster]

You're better off

Not if you've just paid £20 odd quid for it!

 

[VTDan]

I think ECE 3 is a complete waste of money for what it is!

 

[petethetim]

Not if you've just paid £20 odd quid for it!

I got it from play @ £15 personally Its as Good as is out there with the exception of Great eastern Which is Head & shoulders & ten miles ahead of anything else

 

[Tom]

TBH, Great Eastern runs on most PCs about the same as ECE<insert random number here as they're bound to go up to about 100> due to a lovely thing called optimisation...which I haven't seen in any of EBs products.

 

[VTDan]

TBH, Great Eastern runs on most PCs about the same as ECE<insert random number here as they're bound to go up to about 100> due to a lovely thing called optimisation...which I haven't seen in any of EBs products.

I'd go for anything made by Making Tracks over
products from EB they're dreadful!

 

[petethetim]

I feel that Great Eastern Must Be held up as the Bench Mark to all future route designers to aspire to ,but I have no Axe to Grind with EB & Find most of there stuff acceptable ( only disappointment so far was LSC) & Lets Not Forget It was there LBE Route that started the whole concept of Add On's

 

[Tom]

Indeed - but the fact that LSE was a huge amount better, EB had the team to do work to the extent of GE at the time of LBE (as they had DB and DS on the team) at the time. All EB are trying to do is make money, and they do that extremely well, by churning out essentially routes with very little optimisation.

 

[VTDan]

London - Brighton Express
wasn't as bad as any of the others they've
made.

 

[Tom]

I think LBE was probably their best, most detail IMHO.

Next is probably WCW and ECE on the same level, then LSC from the addons I've got.

 

[VTDan]

yeah they are definately going downhill with
their products

 

[Tom]

Yet the income is probably going uphill!

 

[VTDan]

yeah they'll be raking it in and have just gotten
lazy!
They create routes they know everyone will
buy.... but are just lazy making them

 

[petethetim]

Yeah But lets Face It we all like to try something new

 

[VTDan]

oh i know
so far I've bought nearly all their
products and i don't think they get any
better....but i still buy them.......

Living In Hope

 

[Darandio]

I just wish I had the cash for my new system so I could see how bad they really are! Saying that, by the time I get a new system Kuju will be out and there will be a back catalogue available for that. Then again....

 

[VTDan]

Don't be so sure they may delay the release yet
Hopefully not but.......

It's that EB lol they've put us all in misery and
negative minds

 

[Darandio]

I think Tom could be right about Kuju being Autumn though, maybe even Christmas if they want to really get it right because it seems as though they value feedback on the simulator forums and they wouldn't want to upset anybody would they?

 

[petethetim]

you don't mind waiting if something is worth waiting for

 

[Darandio]

you don't mind waiting if something is worth waiting for

Exactly, and if the third party developers are already making add-ons then we wouldn't have to wait as long for them after the original game release. Saying that, I can imagine I would hammer Newcastle to York for a long time anyway. I just want to thrash through my home town.

 

[VTDan]

Yes i can't wait for the York to Newcastle route
straight through where i was born and to where i
live now! Brilliant

 

[petethetim]

I know how you feel guys ,I was the same when I got Irish Enterprise & part 2 will include my local station Belfast "Yorkgate"

 

[Darandio]

Not that I will be expecting to see much of my hometown because I would be doing around 100-110 through there.

 

[VTDan]

well I shall be stopping at mine
....Next stop Durham....

 

[Aaron]

i had that very same problem.
it turned out to be my anti virus blocking the programme.
uninstall and reinstall and that should cure it.
good luck.