AP Sound and Enhancement Packs Help

[gareth]

Hi guys i require some much needed help please,a couple of months ago i was getting issues with train simulator,crashing,freezing and throwing up temp dump messages etc,also at the same time i was running out of storage space on my C drive,so i decided to buy a new 500gb SSD external drive,,after searching on here for advice i decided to uninstall and reinstall the whole train simulator game and move my newly installed steam library over to the new drive which is marked F.,,everything seems to have copied over in the Railworks folder apart from any 3rd party dlc i have and the game runs fine although when i try to reinstall for example the AP 421 Sound Pack, it installs to the Assets/AP folder with all the associated files within but does not apply them to the loco,this is the same with all my other sound and enhancement packs,ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling the 421 loco in steam,clearing the cache on many occasions but nothing seems to happen,when i look in the 421 audio folder it just seems to have the default sounds,i did read somewhere that you add the sounds yourself manually to the loco but im not to sure how to do this,any help or guidance would be much appreciated as my pc skills are pretty limited,

[Brutalist Ape]

I think you'd need to reinstall all your AP packs, and be careful to select the F drive when you're installing them so they go to the right place.

[JetWash]

It sounds like it’s installing them in the wrong place as the railworks registry entry is wrong...rare but it does happen. I’d highly recommend downloading and running this little free registry fix from Just Trains which solved the very same problem for me...

https://support.justflight.com/en/support/solutions/articles/17000064787--railworks-registry-entry-was-not-detected-or-railworks-was-not-found-

Hope it works!

[gareth]

Thanks for the quick replies guys,i have tried reinstalling the packs several times and making sure the installer installs to my F drive,it downloads the scenarios that come with the packs to standard and plays fine but with the default Dtg sounds.its all very frustrating as the sound and enhancement packs make the train driving experience so much better.
Thanks High Tower will certainly give that a try and let you know,thanks again.

[gareth]

High tower i have 2 Railworks exe in my Railworks folder,one is Railworks.exe the other is Railworks64.exe,,does it matter which one

[JetWash]

I doubt it. It’s just pointing to the registry to the correct railworks folder but just to be sure select the one you play. Railworks is the 32 bit executable, railworks64 obviously the 64 bit.

[gareth]

Well i tried what you suggested and unfortunately it did not work,worth a try though thanks,,just to mention in case this makes a difference my steam folder with steam exe in is still on my C,Drive under program files x86 while as i mentioned my steam library folder is on my F. Drive,is it worth trying to uninstall Steam and reinstalling it onto my F.Drive so the 2 are on the same drive.

[JetWash]

You don’t need to do that. It’s how you’ve done what you’ve done that might be the issue. Have you moved your library folder manually, or did you have Steam do it when you installed TS?

Do you only have TS installed or a big library of games?

[gareth]

Hi there when my C/Drive was running out of space i got Steam to do it in Train Simulator properties and then move install folder to my new SSD named F/drive,i have 3 other games,Train Sim World,Euro Fishing and Euro Truck,thats it,.For some reason when Steam moved the folder it also moved Euro Truck and Euro Fishing but not Train Sim World,is there any way i can find out where the files are going,many thanks,

[JetWash]

If it’s not too much of a ball ache(depending on the volume of 3rd party DLC etc.), I’d back up your profiles & saves etc and uninstall the lot, including the Steam client. When you reinstall it, and before you download any games, tell Steam you want your game library to be on your F drive. Once you do that you should find it’s all fine.

[gareth]

Ok High Tower thanks very much for your help,this will obviously take me quite a while but i will let you know how it goes,thanks again

[Phase3]

Gareth
From the AP manual:
From the manual for the Class 421:
1) Locate where you have downloaded this pack and unzip it. Information on how to do this can be found here.

2) Go to the location where you have extracted the files from the .zip file.
3) Now find the .exe file which should look something like this and is called ‘Class 421-422-423 Sound Pack’. Double-click this file.

4) Follow the steps and by the end of the process, this sound pack will have automatically installed to the RailSimulator.com Class 421, RailSimulator.com Southern Class 421, RailSimulator.com Class 422 & RailSimulator.com Class 423.

and answer that I got on UKTS to a similar question to yours was:
"From a quick look at the files, the 421/2/3 pack replaces the various ***Sound.bin files with AP versions, which then call the sounds in the Assets\AP\C421\Audio\RailVehicles\ folder. So, for the Class 423, the RSC version of Assets\RSC\Class423Pack01\Audio\RailVehicles\Electric\Class423\DTCL\DTCL Sound.bin is replaced by the AP version."

Hope that helps.

[JetWash]

That’s not what he’s talking about.

There can sometimes be an issue where the AP installer(s) install the program into where it thinks your railworks installation exists rather than where it actually resides.

Sometimes, for whatever reason, a move in location of the railworks folder doesn’t actually register and the only way around it is to manually change the install path every time you install an AP product. It literally triples the install time.

[Phase3]

HT
Read his/her first post he quite clearly says the AP SP installs to the Assets\AP folder if it does that then it will be applied to the RSC versions in that same Assets folder. That is how AP installers work. Yes you may have to set the correct path manually in some cases but it cannot affect the install time. How?
Unless of course he/she has two \Railworks\Assets folders due to moving from the C to F drives.
He/She also states quite clearly that the JT registry fix did not work.
My post is merely an explanation in that you may not see changes in the RSC audio files but the AP_sound.bin file takes over from the default, and have installed as they should have done.

If the OP is going to move his steam installation as you suggest , he/she might want to look at this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

I wonder if the OP has anymore AP sound packs that he/she has installed as some are easy to check if they have installed properly for example, Class 303 - N button alerts the guard, Class 375/377 installs a single scenario in the L to B route and so on.

[gareth]

Hi Phase i installed the AP sound packs for the 421 and 377,it installs in the correct folder,it even installs the scenarios that comes with each sound pack,when i play for example the 421 scenario i know with the AP pack you get the distinctive heavy motor groan,compressor sound on braking,aws bell and two tone horn to name a few but these are all absent in the 421 scenario which is installed under the standard tab,exactly the same with the 377,the 421 is so dull without the AP pack,ive taken HTs advice and in the process of re downloading everything inc Steam,im keeping my fingers crossed.just to mention it is only the AP packs i own which is approx 10 that are not installing properly,everything else was fine.

[Ronwirral]

Just make sure every thing is installed on your F drive, ie Steam and your TS install also.