If you have run Conbuilder to test your Locos/Wagons, and clicked the Test Sound Files box, you may well have ended up with thousands of errors. My installation was so bad that I unticked this box and ignored it, thinking these errors were probably mis-reported, and MSTS ran OK, so why worry.However conversations with Tony Formoso and Bob Latimer changed my mind, so I had a closer look at the errors reported. The first thing you need to do is to add the flag -soundtest to your MSTS icon's Target box. Then when you start MSTS, you will be advised of missing .wav files every time you load an activity, this will show you how bad things really are, most of the sounds which should be playing probably are not, simply because the person who modified the .sms files had no idea what they were doing, especially if you are using Common.Sound aliased files.I have therefore added a new option to the Route-Riter Beta v6.0.06 update which is available at http://members.optusnet.com.au/virtualtrains/beta6.htmlThis allows you to select all the .sms files in the 'List all Filtered Files' box under the Graphics tab, and to Fix all Sound Aliases in these files (as well as replacing quotes around .wav files which Conbuilder reports as errors if they are missing).On my System, this reduced Conbuilder sound errors from 6500 to 660 for locos and 650 to zero for wagons. The remaining errors were caused by sound files which were missing altogether, spelling mistakes etc, often fixing one of these dropped the total errors by a hundred. It took about 2 hours with a text editor to clean up the whole lot and I now have a system on which Conbuilder reports no errors at all (apart from Cab files, I have not looked at them yet!)RR v6.0.06 is still Beta software, so take care and read the installation instructions before upgrading v6.0.02 onwards. This latest version now includes Okrasa's new compress/uncompress .dlls so is faster for Checking Routes etc., however it does require that you have Microsoft .Net Framework v1.1 or later installed.I have also added a function to correct the case of Engine/Wagon names which COnbuilder reports as errors.Please advise of any problems, suggestions etc.
Mike
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