Train Sim Classic - Missing items

Long story short, I'm trying to resurrect a friends Dovertail train sim installation after the drive it was installed to got quick formatted by accident. He had several drives in his PC with Windows installed to a 250GB SSD and a 1TB mechanical drive on which all programs were installed to. The PC was only used as a games / video editing PC as he uses a laptop as his daily driver, so only a handful of applications.

I've managed to rebuilt the drive and folder structure using various data recovery applications and have migrated the recovered data to a 500Gb hard drive which is in an external sata to USB3 caddy connected to my PC as drive H for testing.

Whilst a few scenarios load up and run without issue, for most I'm having issues of missing rolling stock / items from several of his DLC packs. For example the Wear Valley DLC pack. Selecting Weardale and Teesdale Route and then say the Barnard Castle to Bishop Auckland scenario which features the 101 DMU it fails to load reporting that the [WVR] Hopper 21T Coal and [WRV] 5 plank waggons are missing. I did manage to get TS-Tools to list consists in scenario and it seems that most of the wagons have the [WVR] prefix where as in the individual folders the prefix is missing from the freight wagons listed.

I've looked in the H:\Steam\SteamApps\common\RailWorks\Assets\RSderek\WearValleyRailway\RailVehicles\Freight folder and whilst there are folders for both 5 Plank Wagon and 21T Hopper they don't have any reference to [WVR] in the file naming. Fortunately the root folder of the DLC had the .ap file the contents of which was opened and examined, and it doesn't contain the [WVR] variants of the 21T and 5 plank wagons. I've gone through the DLC folders and extracted all the .ap files for all scenarios that I could find but still get the error.

I have used TS-Tools to find files etc but can't find a "fix error" type option. - If anyone has any suggestions or guidance on using TS-Tools to resolve this it would be appreciated. Obviously my friend had a fair bit of investment over the years, so it would be great if I could get all of this working... I know I have a mammoth task ahead of going through each route and scenario to find and fix all the errors, and he has quite a lot of additional content. It also doesn't help that TS-Tools is so old it often crashes with a run time error !

A potential solution from memory of playing this game years ago, is to uninstall then reinstall that DLC.

To do this, on the steam library find Train Sim Classic, right click on it then click properties, go to DLC, find the Weardale DLC and untick it. Then I think you need to close Steam down fully, reopen it and then do the same again but re-tick the Weardale DLC box and it should re-install it including any missing/corrupted items.

Clearing cache, also in the properties section, may also work.

Thanks for the suggestions. Yes I have tried clearing he cache which made little or no difference. I'm not able to the other suggestion as I don't have access to his Steam account.

I do need to log in to steam in order to run the application locally, but do so under my account credentials (I also have TS installed on my own PC - which is naturally updated to TS 2024 - but even though I seldom play the game, I still would like to retain my installation rather than corrupt it.

malc-c said:

Thanks for the suggestions. Yes I have tried clearing he cache which made little or no difference. I'm not able to the other suggestion as I don't have access to his Steam account.

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Can they not recover their Steam account?

I believe that's what he's looking at trying, but I think some of his DLC was direct purchases - he also still has the original DVD installation disk for the application which I think he used before opening a steam account.

It's strange as I tested the Fairwater Shunt scenario on the Exeter route, under the "standard" tab. In this scenario you use a 47 to make up a freight train within a yard and then take it to Taunton station to complete the task... It ran fine. I then tried one of the other scenarios which was a 43 HST on a standard run... after 25 minutes in, the train was derailed as the track ran out and the train was more like a submarine "under" the world... so guess the damage to the disk when it was quick formatted is more than anticipated...

I did ask if he had any backup routine but sadly he has none....

malc-c said:

I believe that's what he's looking at trying, but I think some of his DLC was direct purchases - he also still has the original DVD installation disk for the application which I think he used before opening a steam account.

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Any physical copies of the game were also tied to Steam by way of a code provided in the case, there wasn't an offline version of Railworks or Train Simulator. The same with Weardale & Teesdale (as it's mentioned early in the thread), any purchase outside of Steam simply gave an activation code.

Darandio said:

Any physical copies of the game were also tied to Steam by way of a code provided in the case, there wasn't an offline version of Railworks or Train Simulator. The same with Weardale & Teesdale (as it's mentioned early in the thread), any purchase outside of Steam simply gave an activation code.

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Thanks for the clarification. I'll let him know that he should be able to download the content, or when he logs into Steam it might even autosync.